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A Man-Eating Jeopard

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PublishedJune 1936Sale amount$55Howard received$49.50

Genres

Funny WesternsWestern

Introduction

A Man-Eating Jeopard is a Buckner Jeopardy Grimes story. Kline received it on December 26, 1934; it was sold to Street & Smith and first published in Cowboy Stories in June 1936. The sale was $55.00, of which Howard received $49.50. The story also appeared shortly after Howard’s death in the Cross Plains Review.

Textual states

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Draft 2A Man-Eating Jeopard — Draft 2

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Draft 3A Man-Eating Jeopard — Draft 3

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Published versionA Man-Eating Jeopard

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From the letters:

In a letter (#344) to August Derleth, April 15, 1936:

Naturally, my work has had to be neglected, though I have managed somehow to keep up the Breck Elkins series. I’ve made three new markets since writing you last: Dime Sport, Cowboy Stories and Complete Stories — the latter with a 24000 novelet of the El Borak series.

These were “Fists of the Desert,” published as “Iron-Jaw,” April 1936; “A Man- Eating Jeopard,” June 1936; and “Sons of the Hawk,” published as “The Country of the Knife,” August 1936.

And in a letter (#345) to E. Hoffmann Price, April 21, 1936:

I’m in better shape financially than I was when you saw me last, in spite of my heavy expenses. Weird Tales has been paying regularly lately, another sale to Thrilling Mystery helped, and I’ve cracked two more S&S magazines — Cowboy Stories — with a humorous-western of the B. Elkins type;4 and Complete Stories, with a 24,000 word Oriental adventure novelet.

The visit Howard refers to was when Price and his wife came to Cross Plains to meet Howard in October 1935. The story in Thrilling Mystery was “Black Wind Blowing,” published in June 1936.
The Complete Stories tale was “Sons of the Hawk,” published as “The Country of the Knife,” August 1936.