On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:23 PM, <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> "For Vietnam specifically, Sarge Steel gets named as
the first comic
> book private eye to serve in the Vietnam War in the
Fine Art of Murder
> by Max Allan Collins. Was he the first known
fictional private eye in
> any genre to serve in the Vietnam war?"
>
> Don't know when Sarge Steel was, but for novels,
among the first Vietnam
> vet PIs must be Spenser (1973). But like Mack Bolan
before him (1969),
> his time overseas gave him skills, not trauma. Same
year, though, there
> were traumatized vets in Michael Z Lewin's Way We
Die Now. However,
> they weren't PIs, but victims: a security guard
company hired damaged
> vets and turned them into programmed
killers.
<snip>
Actually, I'm fairly certain Spenser was a Korea vet.
Pat
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