When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham

Robert E. Howard

First published	September 1990
Type	Poem

First published in Robert E. Howard's Fight Magazine #2, Cryptic Publications.
Taken from a Howard letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, May 24, 1925 ("Salaam: Hot-zowie, old topper, we've got the makings..."), where it was untitled.

Date		Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
September 1990		Robert E. Howard's Fight Magazine #2	Necronomicon Press	FANZINE	40
April 2005		Boxing Stories	Bison Books	Collection	155
April 2005		Boxing Stories	Bison Books	Collection	155
June 2007		The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press	Nonfiction	58
September 2007		The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval	Paradox Entertainment	Collection	274
January 2009		The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press	Collection	666
February 2009		A Word from the Outer Dark	Project Pride	Collection	123
February 2009		A Word from the Outer Dark	Project Pride	Collection	123
April 2009		The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press	Collection	666
August 2009		The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press	Collection	666
November 2009		Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems	Frank Coffman	Collection	286
November 2009		Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems	Frank Coffman	Collection	286
June 2013		Fists of Iron — Round 1	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press	Collection	202
October 2021		The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press	Nonfiction	52