
While we're on the subject of anthologies of old pulp stories, here's one of the most unfortunate book titles ever:

If only this was in print still; you could go up to your bookshop counter and ask for hard-boiled dicks, and mean it. This book is not to be confused with The New Hard-Boiled Dicks: A personal checklist, which is a completely different book with an equally amusing title.
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The fact that the slugger hitting the bull's eye appears to be holding on to something hidden from our eyes (maybe to keep the slug-ee positioned right) works particularly well.
Ha! I hadn't seen that, but it really does seem that he's making use of, er, nature's handle.
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