Re: RARA-AVIS: Who's on first?


Words from the Monastery (anthony.dauer@erols.com)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:00:37 -0400


I'll give 'em firsts ... but fathered requires the author to have read and then be inspired by, not just to come in second ...

abc@wt.net wrote:

> Bill Nolan, in THE BLACK MASK BOYS, reprints the first Three Gun Terry Mack story
> and prefaces it with this comment: "But whatever gievous faults this story possesses,
> it's the one that fathered Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer and Travis
> McGee and . . . . First is first." The story was in the May 15 issue of BLACK
> MASK.
>
> Bill Crider
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