If you are not familiar with Fight Card's excellent series, you have been missing out. Patterned after the great boxing tales of the forties and fifties, all of these stories are written by different authors, but published under the house name of Jack Tunney (or sometimes the house name of Jill Tunney). They are known for high standards of excellence, fast paced action packed fights, and often threatening hoods or other desperate circumstances. Many of the fighters in this series got their starts in the fictional nirvana of Father Tim's orphanage in Chicago.

Monster Man is a top notch story and is filled with great play by play boxing action, dirty hoods, slinky dames, fixed fights, betting, rundown rooming houses, and more.

Here, the lead is referred to as a Monster because he suffered from acromegaly, a condition that afflicted Andre the Giant and the Great Khali.

At 111 pages, it is the size of an old dime store paperback and delivers just the kind of melodramatic action tale you might have found there. ( )