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Fists of Iron — Round 1

Robert E. Howard

First published 2013
Series The Collected Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard #1
Publisher The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Tom Gianni
Pages xxii+419
Price $50.00

Edited by Patrice Louinet, Christopher Gruber and Mark Finn.
Limited to 200 copies.
"First Printing" on the copyright page.
Cover artist credited on the rear jacket flap, and cover artwork is signed.
Some of the contents are non-genre, but many of the stories have speculative fiction content.
The Howard material from p. 397 through p. 406 is from 3 issues of Howard's self-published The Right Hook, of which only one copy is known to exist.

No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux Robert E. Howard Short Story
16 Double Cross Robert E. Howard Short Story
33 The Weeping Willow Robert E. Howard Short Story
39 The Right Hook Robert E. Howard Short Story
53 The Voice of Doom Robert E. Howard Short Story
59 Crowd Horror Robert E. Howard Short Story
94 Iron Men Robert E. Howard Novella
130 The Mark of a Bloody Hand Robert E. Howard Short Story
138 They Always Come Back Robert E. Howard Short Story
162 The Trail of the Snake Robert E. Howard Short Story
185 Kid Lavigne Is Dead Robert E. Howard Poem
186 "Aw Come on and Fight!" Robert E. Howard Poem
187 The Cooling of Spike McRue Robert E. Howard Poem
189 Fables for Little Folks Robert E. Howard Poem
190 The Champ Robert E. Howard Poem
191 Slugger's Vow Robert E. Howard Poem
191 Untitled ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring...") Robert E. Howard Poem
192 In the Ring Robert E. Howard Poem
194 Untitled ("They matched me up that night...") Robert E. Howard Poem
195 Down the Ages Robert E. Howard Poem
197 John L. Sullivan Robert E. Howard Poem
199 Jack Dempsey Robert E. Howard Poem
200 Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses...") Robert E. Howard Poem
201 Untitled ("All the crowd...") Robert E. Howard Poem
202 When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham Robert E. Howard Poem
207 The Spirit of Brian Boru Robert E. Howard Short Story
211 A Man of Peace Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
236 The Atavist Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
249 Cupid Vs. Pollux Robert E. Howard Short Story
253 The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux (Alternative Version) Robert E. Howard Short Story
266 Untitled Fragment ("I had just hung...") Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
269 The Ferocious Ape Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
277 Untitled Fragment ("Spike Morissey...") Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
279 Untitled Fragment ("The tale has always been...") Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
281 The Ghost Behind the Gloves Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
284 Lobo Volante Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
285 Night Encounter Robert E. Howard Short Story
298 The Folly of Conceit Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
315 Iron Men (First Version) Robert E. Howard Novella
377 Dula Due to Be Champion Robert E. Howard Essay
379 The Punch Robert E. Howard Essay
382 Men of Iron Robert E. Howard Essay
387 Untitled Document ("The round started slow...") Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
391 Jeffries Versus Dempsey Robert E. Howard Short Story
394 Misto Dempsey Robert E. Howard Short Story
396 The Funniest Bout Robert E. Howard Short Story
397 The Great Munney Ring Robert E. Howard Essay
398 The Sporting Page Robert E. Howard Essay
399 Munn! Munn! Munn! Munn! Munn! Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
400 Classification of Champions Robert E. Howard Essay
403 Ringside Tales Robert E. Howard Short Story
409 The Lord of the Ring (part 1) Patrice Louinet Essay
vii Introduction: The Brute Eternal Christopher Gruber Essay