![]() In stories like What You Pay For (HB #4, 1986) Nothing Comes Cheap (HB #6, 1986) and especially Toothpick (HB #8, 1987) Henderson chronicled the tough but brutally honest adventures of his maverick private eye and overall troublemaker, Jack Hagee. I’d never heard of him before, he was just some guy with the byline C.J. ![]() His stories were gripping, searing, brutally honest and damn good. Hardboiled (HB) contained hard pulp crime the way it should be written - with a relentless hard-ass attitude that had not been seen since Manhunt or Black Mask - and there was one guy who wrote stories that I thought were the best of the best. I savored each long-awaited issue as it appeared, reading them religiously, little realizing at the time that the contributors and letter writers whose names appeared in those pages would become a who’s who of hard crime and noir fiction for the latter part of the 20th Century. That magazine contained the hardest damn crime fiction you’d ever want to read. Henderson, Jack Hagee and Me Introduction by Gary LovisiĪ long time ago, in a world very far away, Wayne Dundee edited a little fanzine-type magazine called Hardboiled. To Wayne Dundee and Gary Lovisi – who knew a good thing when they saw it and shared it with the rest of the world. ![]()
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