The Man from C.A.M.P.

As such, they are part of the great gay paperback explosion that "catered to most every taste in men's genre fiction," including detective stories and spy thrillers.

"[7] The general formula for each book involves Jackie being paired up with a homophobic government agent to investigate a suspicious crime.

[9] The recent compilations are significant because the original copies, by virtue of their obvious sexual orientation, were often disposed of or destroyed so that they would not reveal clues about their owners and their lives.

"Lady Agatha," in which Banis had only partly a hand, a 10th novel, Gay-Safe (probably by Samuel Dodson, according to researcher Lynn Munroe), and a short story have appeared.

[27] In 1965 in the newsletter of the Philadelphia homophile organization Janus Society, Allen J. Shapiro, writing as A. Jay, began a comic strip The Adventures of Harry Chess: That Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.

[28] Later Harry Chess joined FUGG (Federal Undercover Gay Goodguys); most of the episodes were re-published in the Meatmen comic anthologies published by Winston Leyland out of San Francisco.

The series' protagonist is hip secret agent Buzz Cardigan who plays gay to infiltrate an underworld of crime and blackmail.