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[Continued from Blog Post 06/30/09]

The Pipes: While now the manufacturing and industrial area in which Fairgeth’s water treatment plants reside, the Pipes got their name in the 19th century for the opium dens and tobacconists among the Oriental and Dutch settlers ( Read more... )

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The fame of Fairgeth spread through the pages of GANGLAND THRILLS™ and OCCULT THRILLS™ magazine and the exploits of heroes like ACE BARRIGAN™, THE CHANTEUSE™, and MAX MEDIUM™ or villains like BOSS MACKAY™, DINO STILETTO™, and MATTHEW SLATE™. In all fairness, the city grew as ( Read more... )

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“Wassat? You ain’t never been here before? Dis is a town like no other, pal! Ya say yer prayers, don’tcha?”

-“Hack Harry” (cabbie played by Albert Sonarm) in ACE BARRIGAN™ and the Fairgeth Phantom (1941)

“From the first, Fairgeth was accursed, for Bartram Algeth’s ( Read more... )

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Dawes, Max

Born March 15 of 1913 in Rockford Illinois, the flaxen-haired Floyd Maxwell II yearned for a life beyond dairy farms and the Midwest. At age 17, he came to Hollywood, changed his name to Max Dawes, and got his start as a bit player of thugs. Max’s star rose when ( Read more... )