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The Ill-Timed Poop

Here’s another tribute to a Hack supporter. Rob Vestal has always making a point of “liking” our posts when he checks them out and in thanks, he’s inevitably depicted as a murder victim when the story calls for it. In this novel, the story of Vestal’s availabilty as a corpse is explained when his super-hot paramour (depicted as 1940s movie star Gene Tierney) turned out to be a Mistress of Disguise who makes up a Skid Row vagrant that Vestal rubs out to look like him whenever he needs to fake his own death (which is alarmingly often).

Rim to Rim

When Hack’s cover artist Jonny M.’s brother Joe (an outdoorsman who serves as the inspiration for the Junior Ranger books) told Hack that he was “doing the Grand Canyon rim to rim,” it set Hack’s imagination on fire. All Joe meant was that he would be hiking from the south to north rim of the canyon (or the north to south rim, I didn’t care enough to confirm which one) but, Hack being Hack, he thought “rim to rim” meant some kind of deviant sexual practice. So he wrote this book, getting around the wholesome business model of Boys Adventures by making Lucifer the sicko who leads Joe down the path of perversion and pretending the thing was actually a religious parable.

It sold like gangbusters in the Bible Belt and won an award from the Catholic Legion of Decency.