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A Knight of the Round Table

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Introduction

A Knight of the Round Table is associated with Howard’s story originally titled Iron-Clad Fists, featuring Steve Costigan. The story was never published. Howard’s agent, Otis Kline, received it on July 27, 1934, and the Cross Plains Library holds an original draft.

The legacy record associates the later title with the name Patrick Ervin but is internally uncertain over whether Howard or Kline supplied that pseudonym; that uncertainty should be preserved.