Kid Scanlan

Kid Scanlan has nothing much in his head—but in his left shoulder, he carries a wallop “that would make a six-inch shell look like a lover’s caress.” After two savage rounds with champion One-Punch Ross, the Kid leaves the ring for the movies.

Told by his fast-talking manager, Johnny Green, this comic tale begins in the prizefighting world of early twentieth-century America, where a good punch can pay better than a good education. Green thinks he knows how to get his fighters paid; then a film producer offers the Kid a starring role—and Green talks the price up before he’s quite sure what the job involves. Soon they’re bound for Film City, California, where the new “leading men” are greeted by a gloomy driver who isn’t convinced Scanlan is a fighter at all. Can the champ and his manager make sense of Hollywood before Hollywood makes a spectacle of them?

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