At 10:42 AM 7/11/00 +0300, Juri Nummelin wrote:
>Where does this idea of Henry being the good Kane
come from? I just
>can't figure it out. Henry Kane is overwritten,
sloppy and
>boring. Sometimes funny, sometimes parodical in the
Prather vein, but
>never good. Frank, on the other hand, is hardboiled,
saves the
>wisecracking and sometimes tells a good story. Well,
some of the later
>Franks are pretty tired, but the early ones are quite
readable.
>
I dig Frank as
well. One of the A list hacks, in my opinion.
It's funny how some
guys make the cognoscenti short list and other don't. For
instance, Lester Dent is known to all as a Black Mask alumnus
even though he only wrote (I believe) two stories for that
mag....fine stories, but not particularly distinguished. I
don't think he even wrote that many HB stories for any
magazine. Who would have picked Norbert Davis or Hugh Cave as
pulp icons? Not putting any of these guys down, but they
didn't have any skills that, say, Paul Ernst or Ron Hubbard
didn't have more of.
Speaking of
Hubbard, the pulpsters on the list are all aware of his SF,
western, and adventure stories but did he try the detective
bag? His word output would seem to make it likely but I have
never seen any of them unless they were
pseudononymous>
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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