Sailor Steve Costigan & Other Tales of Boxing - Complete Edition

Sailor Steve Costigan is a merchant sailor on the Sea Girl and is also its champion boxer. His only true companion is a bulldog named Mike (after his brother and fellow boxer, "Iron" Mike Costigan). Costigan, one of Howard's humorous boxing pulp heroes, roamed the Asiatic seas with fists of steel, a will of iron, and a head of wood. A striking contrast between Howard's barbarians and swordsmen, Costigan was a modern-day character, written in a humorous, Texas tall tale style.

Table of Contents:

The 'Sailor Steve Costigan' Stories:

The Pit of the Serpent

The Bull-Dog Breed

Sailor's Grudge

Fist and Fang

The Iron Man

Winner Take All

Waterfront Fists

Champ of the Forecastle

Alleys of Peril

The TNT Punch

Texas Fists

The Sign of the Snake

Blow The Chinks Down!

Breed of Battle

Circus Fists

Dark Shanghai

Vikings of the Gloves

Night of Battle

The Slugger's Game

General Ironfist

Sluggers of the Beach

Other Boxing Stories:

The Apparition in the Prize Ring

Alleys of Darkness

Cupid vs. Pollux

The Iron Man

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.