Whatever Happened to Harry & Johnny?
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| Title: | Whatever Happened to Harry & Johnny? |
| Publisher: | A Harry & Johnny Production |
| Editor(s): | Ruth Kurz |
| Date(s): | October 1991 |
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| Fandom: | Harry & Johnny |
| Language: | English |
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Whatever Happened to Harry & Johnny? is a slash 191-page anthology. Art by Ruth Kurz, Nancy Broll and Kari Masoner. It required an age statement to purchase.
There are five "complete" stories. There is also a very lengthy section of "Stories that Never Got Written" which is story fragments, vignettes, outlines, and authors' explanations in the form of letters to Ruth of what they envisioned/or have written so far to fill in gaps in the timeline. Some of these sections are very lengthy and are almost complete unto themselves. It is a fascinating look into the construction of this intricate universe.
About the Stories that Never Got Written Section
From Ruth Kurz:
Nobody like loose ends. In the zine, Timeline, I published a Harry and Johnny timeline listing all the stories and events in their lives to help readers understand where things fit into the ongoing saga of these characters. I am reissuing an updated timeline in this zine, adding all the stories written since the last printing. Many of the stories listed as 'proposed' or 'not yet printed' eventually were, but others never got written. This section of Whatever Happened to Harry & Johnny? is dedicated to summarizing those stories for you, giving you as much as I know myself about what ideas authors and I had planned to write. I'm including suggestions for stories by a couple of people who wanted to see some ideas enlarged upon. My inspiration for this section was Kate Nuernberg's Cold Fish and Stale Chips which is a forum for unfinished stories in The Professionals universe. A good idea. This tidies up the past, getting these 'off our backs' the way unfinished things tend to create pressure, and allows us to move to new ideas. Harry and Johnny will continue to appear in The Fruit Zines and who knows where else. This is not 'goodbye,' just 'catch-up time.' I have tried to reach everyone whose partial stories, summaries, or ideas are printed here, but the years we've been out of touch have been long. All these bits were given to me to publish inH/J eventually. Well, now is 'eventually,' so I hope the permission granted has stretched without breaking.
Contents
Story Section:
- Enemy Action (1980) by Ruth Kurz/Noms DePlume (1)
- Growing Pains by DVS (26)
- ... And When I Get There, I’ll Pull Your Hair by Betsy L. Barr (92) (One interpretation of the similarities between Johnny and Hutch, continued from the Tying Up Loose Ends section of Mixed Media.)
- Just Returning the Favor by Robbie (Hardcastle and McCormick crossover) (114)
- Quantum Force by Jackie W (Quantum Leap crossover) (118)
Summary Section: Stories That Never Got Written...
- Timeline (125)
- Magnum Force: The Wolf - 1973 (AU) by Chris Power and Terri Beckett (129)
- It’s Tuesday, Where the Hell’s Belgium? - 1977 by Ruth Kurz (132)
- Trip to Oregon - 1978 by Syn Ferguson (157)
- Runaway - 1978/1979 by Ruth Kurz (159) (as written at a ZebraCon writers' workshop)
- Doomsday - 1979 (AU) by Pam Rose (161) (post AWILA story, alternate universe)
- Story Idea by Billie Phillips(169)
- For Annette - 9179 by Ruth Kurz (169)
- Letter From Joanna Russ (169)
- Back to Britain (170)
- Freelance - Summer 1982 by Terri Beckett
- Irish Story - Summer 1982 by Rosemary C.
- English Story - Summer 1988 by Ruth Kurz
- Global Assignment - Early 1983 by Ruth Kurz (172)
- After the Impact, Meet Horace (reprise) by Jean Chabot and Ruth Kurz (172)
- Deadly Delusion - 1983 (AU) by Ruth Kurz (177)
- Dead Pool - 1988 by Ruth Kurz (185)
- Legacy - 2038 (AU) by Jatona Walker (187) (an alternative universe story, tie-in with the "official" Death story)
Gallery
A sample of the art:
family tree
Ruth Kurz
Ruth Kurz
Ruth Kurz, the actor who played McCormick from Hardcastle and McCormick, here in a different role
Ruth Kurz
Ruth Kurz, also in Response to October
Ruth Kurz, also in Magnum Force: Harry
Reactions and Reviews
References
- ^ from a Quantum Leap fan in The Handlink #3