Introduction
Sailor’s Grudge. Featuring Steve Costigan. First published in Fight Stories volume 2 number 10 march 1930 as ‘Sailor’s Grudge’. Howard got $75.00 for this story. It was published again in Fight Stories volume 5 number 7 in 1938 under the name Mark Adam and with the changed title.
From a letter (#124) to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa March 1930 we learn:
Have you read my “Sailors’ Grudge” in the latest issue of Fight Stories? I ought not to be writing you, because you already owe me a letter, but it’s pretty dull here when I’m not writing and I can’t write all the time.
Alternate title:
Published in:
- FIGHT STORIES VOLUME 2 NUMBER 10, Fight Stories, Inc., March 1930
- FIGHT STORIES VOLUME 5 NUMBER 7, Fight Stories, Inc., Spring 1938 (by Mark Adam, as “Costigan vs. Kid Camera”)
- STEVE COSTIGAN, NeO, November 1986 (French)
- REH FIGHT MAGAZINE #1, Necronomicon Press, March 1990
- IRON FIST, North-West, 1998 (Russian)
- WATERFRONT FISTS AND OTHERS, Wildside Press, May 2003
- WATERFRONT FISTS AND OTHERS, Wildside Press, December 2004
- THE BATTLES OF SAILOR STEVE COSTIGAN, Francis DiPietro, August 2008
- 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
- ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAILOR STEVE COSTIGAN, Pulp-Lit Press, July 2019
- ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAILOR STEVE COSTIGAN, Audible Audio, July 2019 (audio)
