And just so you get your money's worth from this post, here are the covers of the two zines. The Not So Private Eye art (below) is by Brad W. Foster. The Hardboiled Detective cover is by Bruce Timm.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Hardboiled Quiz: The Answers
OK, here's the poop. (If you missed it, the Quiz ran yesterday. Click HERE.) This thing, concocted by a couple of guys named Lewis and Napier, first appeared in Andy Jaysnovitch's The Not So Private Eye No. 11, way back in 1983. Then in 1991 it was reprinted in issue 12 of Gary Lovisi's Hardboiled Detective. Most of the quiz art is from either Hollywood Detective or pulps of the same line. Not surprisingly, those dudes Lewis and Napier were never heard from again.
I remember THE NOT SO PRIVATE EYE. I still have all the issues and often wonder what happened to Andy. He visited me a couple times many years ago and we discussed pulp art. Last time I saw him was at a jazz gig in Princeton, NJ.
ReplyDeleteAndy has a Facebook page, and looks in now and then. He gave me his blessing to reprint Bill Crider's Crocodile article last month.
ReplyDeleteThat was a lot of fun, and I even got a few correct. Thanks for that pair of posts, Evan, a LOT. Like the artwork also, if I'd tried I might have figured out it was Timm, form his comic work.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rick. It was interesting reading this article again. The cap'n and I said some stuff here that almost made us sound smart. Nowadays, of course, people know better.
ReplyDeleteI only got a few right. I've read everyone except Roy Huggins. I have to admit, I didn't know he wrote any books. I remember him from the various tv shows he wrote in the 60s. Guess I need to track down one of his titles. You ever read him?
ReplyDeleteBTW, that William Campbell Gault (Roney Scott) book Shakedown is one heckuva read. Highly recommended. It is hands down my favorite Gault, and features a different, harder edged Joe Puma. Same name, different character.
Frank, there's a review of one of Huggins' best ones, DOUBLE TAKE, my blog. Search for "Huggins" and it comes up.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Richard. I just read the review and will be tracking down a copy of the book.
ReplyDeleteHuggins' other novels are Too Late for Tears and Lovely Lady Pity Me. The article implies one of these features Stu Bailey, but that ain't so. His other Bailey book is 77 Sunset Strip, collecting three novelettes originally published in slick mags. I enjoyed all four books, but it was a coon's age ago.
ReplyDeleteI flunked. Oh, the ravages of time on a mind.
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