Champ of the Forecastle

Featuring Steve Costigan. First published in Fight Stories, volume 3, number 6 November 1930. Howard was paid $65 for this story. Later, after Howard had passed, it was published under the pseudonym Mark Adams in Fight Stories volume 5, number 8 in 1938.

THE CHAMPION OF THE FORECASTLE and CHAMP OF THE SEVEN SEAS. 

• FIGHT STORIES VOLUME 3 NUMBER 6, Fight Stories, Inc., November 1930
• FIGHT STORIES VOLUME 5 NUMBER 8, Fight Stories, Inc., June-July 1938 (by Mark Adams, as “Champ of the Seven Seas”)
• STEVE COSTIGAN, NeO, November 1986 (French)
• REH FIGHT MAGAZINE #2, Necronomicon Press, September 1990 (as “The Champion of the Forecastle”)
• WATERFRONT FISTS AND OTHERS, Wildside Press, May 2003 
• WATERFRONT FISTS AND OTHERS, Wildside Press, December 2004 
• BOXING STORIES, Bison Books, April 2005 (as “The Champion of the Forecastle”)
• THE COLLECTED BOXING STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, Halcyon Press, Ltd., December 2009 
• THE ROBERT E. HOWARD OMNIBUS: 99 COLLECTED STORIES, Halcyon Press, Ltd., May 2010  
• FISTS OF FOOLISHNESS: THE TALES OF SEA-FARING BOXING CHAMP STEVE COSTIGAN, Nuelow Games, October 2011  
• THE SAILOR STEVE COSTIGAN STORIES, Jame-Books, August 2012 
• ROBERT E. HOWARD’S COLLECTED WORKS, Jame-Books, February 2013
• THE COLLECTED BOXING FICTION OF ROBERT E. HOWARD: FISTS OF IRON ROUND 2,  REH Foundation Press, February 2014 (as “The Champion of the Forecastle”) 
• ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAILOR STEVE COSTIGAN, Pulp-Lit Press, July 2019        
• ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAILOR STEVE COSTIGAN, Audible Audio, July 2019 (audio)