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Dirty Harry

Name: Dirty Harry
Abbreviation(s):
Creator: Don Siegel
Date(s): 1971 - 1988
Medium: movies, novels
Country of Origin: USA
External Links: wikipedia
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Dirty Harry is a series of five movies starring Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan. There is also a series of novels that is part of the franchise. The movies are Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983) and The Dead Pool (1988).

The second movie, Magnum Force, inspired an early slash fandom referred to as Harry & Johnny built around the pairing of Harry Callahan/John Davis.

Harry & Johnny

"This fandom was unique in a couple of ways. First, its creation can be specifically attributed to two fans, Ruth Kurz and Teri White Second, it was the first time a fandom existed that had no gen component. [[H/J] was created and perpetuated as slash, period. It was based on characters in "Magnum Force," as played by Clint Eastwood (Harry) and David Soul (Johnny). Both Ruth and Teri started out in ST fandom. Teri also wrote some ST gen and some of the earliest K/S. At the time they created H/J fandom, they were active in S&H fandom. H/J initially was underground -- not in zines, being circulated in manuscript form (like the Pros Circuit stories). As word got out and more fans got interested, they started publishing them in zine form, starting in 1980. Teri was involved primarily in the first several zines, then Ruth took over the primary writing chores. Ruth also did most of the artwork that was included (the zines also were liberally illustrated with "cut and paste" photos -- literally cut and paste, not in computer terms). Over 40 zines were published, and it still was being published as late as 1991. H/J fandom drew contributions from many noted fan writers, poets, and artists of the day." [1]

Ruth Kurz recruited many other authors to help write fiction in this very tightly controlled universe. The lives of Harry and Johnny were thought out in every detail and there was no overlap or contradiction in the fiction.

Harry & Johnny Zine Timeline of Events

This list includes all known stories up to October 1991. It indicates where all the stories in the H/J universe fall in relation to the fanzines. The dates noted are the time the events in the stories happened, NOT a date of publication.

Short poems exist all along the timeline and are found in almost all H/J publications.

It is unknown where these fall in the timeline:

  • "A Portfolio of Poetry and Portraits" contains 70 pages.
  • "Bear Hugs and Bunny Kisses" contains 46 pages
  • "Freebie"

The Zines Themselves

Novels

Harry & Johnny Anthologies

Multimedia Anthologies with Harry & Johnny Content

non-fiction

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