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From its earliest days, hardboiled fiction was published in and closely associated with so-called pulp magazines.Pulp historian Robert Sampson argues that Gordon Young's "Don Everhard" stories (which appeared in Adventure magazine from 1917 onwards), about an "extremely tough, unsentimental, and lethal" gun-toting urban gambler, anticipated the hardboiled detective stories. [7]
Hard Boiled (Chinese: 辣手神探) [2] is a 1992 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Gordon Chan and Barry Wong based on a story written by Woo. The film stars Chow Yun-fat , Tony Leung Chiu-wai , and Anthony Wong .
An unlettered and uncolored version of the story was released in an oversized edition titled Big Damn Hard Boiled (tpb, 128 pages, 1998, ISBN 1-5697-1323-5) A recolored version of the story was released as part of a series of Darrow reprints (hc, 136 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-5067-0107-8 )
Articles relating to hardboiled, a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the ...
Hard-boiled eggs, a type of cooked egg; Hardboiled, a style of fiction pioneered in the mid-1920s; Hard Boiled (Bakufu Slump album) Hard Boiled, a 1990–1992 three-issue comic book mini-series written by Frank Miller and drawn by Geof Darrow; Stranglehold, aka Hard Boiled 2; videogame sequel to the 1992 HK action film
Hard Boiled is a three-issue comic book mini-series written by Frank Miller and drawn by Geof Darrow. It was published by American company Dark Horse Comics in 1990-1992. Frank Miller and Geof Darrow won the 1991 Eisner award for Best Writer/Artist for this series.
Bakufu-Slump (Japanese: 爆風スランプ, Hepburn: Bakufū Suranpu) is a Japanese rock band originally active between 1982 and 1999. [1] [2] One of the most popular rock bands in Japan during the 1980s and '90s, [3] [4] it is known for its best-selling single "Runner", released in 1988.
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