Introduction
Playing Journalist. The unpublished manuscript by Patrick Ervin was found after Howard’s death and retitled “Playing Journalist”.
The original typescript lists the author as “Patrick Ervin”, a pseudonym REH used in connection with his Dennis Dorgan stories. Otis Adelbert Kline and later agents retained the original typescript (titled “A New Game for Dorgan”), and it was eventually donated to Cross Plains Library. In OAK’s logs the title is originally “A New Game for Costigan”, then “Costigan” is struck out and “Dorgan” is written above it, along with “Patrick Ervin”.
Cross Plains Library has one original draft of this story and a retyped draft by the Otis Adelbert Kline Agency.
Alternate titles:
A NEW GAME FOR DORGAN and A NEW GAME FOR COSTIGAN.
Published in:
- THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF DENNIS DORGAN, FAX, 1974
- THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF DENNIS DORGAN, Zebra, December 1975
- THE IRON MAN, WITH THE ADVENTURES OF DENNIS DORGAN, Ace, October 1983
- DENNIS DORGAN, NeO, July 1987 (French)
- BOXING STORIES, Bison Books, April 2005 (as “A New Game for Costigan“)
