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The Jugger - Man's Magazine, April 1965


Story title: The Chicken and the Yegg.

Artist: Freeman Elliott.

Cover tagline: "A Parker mystery by Richard Stark".

Inside blurb: "Rhonda had the kind of body Parker could admire from afar -- and close. But first he had another body to worry about -- that of his dead friend Joe Sheer!"

Notes: - Contains the first reprinting of The Jugger, which would be reprinted again in 1967 in For Men Only.

- This is an abridged and altered story, with sexually explicit scenes added throughout by an unknown author.

- Art not exclusive to the story, the cover image had previously been used in Dollar Man by John Turner -- a 1961 dime novel published by Pyramid Books.

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Some examples of the changes present in the magazine version.


The Jugger - For Men Only, August 1967


Story title: The Depraved Ones.

Artist: Samson Pollen.

Cover tagline: "A rogue cop, a hot-blooded blonde, and a twisted killer chase $250,000 in dead man's loot..."

Inside blurb: "Parker tucked the automatic in his belt as he thought of the odds -- like Captain Younger, a vicious rogue cop, and Rhonda, innocent blonde with the mouth of a tramp, and Tiftus, a pervert with a gun. It was a no-quarter scramble for the $250,000 and may the best killer win."

Notes: - The Jugger and The Score appear to be the only novels to have been reprinted twice.

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