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Harry Chess
Harry Chess is the central character of the first gay-themed ongoing comic strip, first appearing in the mid 1960s. He is a parody of the secret agent trope popularized in the 1960s, as exemplified by ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' and the James Bond franchise. Rather than the heterosexual romantic themes common to the source material, the adventures of Harry Chess were openly homosexual, intended to appeal to gay male readers.〔
Harry Chess is a former trapeze artist; his name is a pun referring to his hairy chest. He has a long thin face with a prominently cleft chin. His sidekick is his adopted brother Mickey Muscle,〔 an inarticulate teenage body builder.〔 "A.U.N.T.I.E." stands for "Agents' Undercover Network to Investigate Evil", parodying the "U.N.C.L.E." of the TV series using the affectionate gay slang for an older gay man.〔 Harry and Mickey would later become members of F.U.G.G ("Federal Undercover Gay Goodguys"). The strip also featured contemporary political satire, parodying the families of Republican figures such as Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.
Harry Chess was created by Allen J. Shapiro (1932–1987)〔 under the pseudonym "A. Jay". The character appeared in a one-off cartoon in November 1964 in ''Drum'' magazine, a homophile publication featuring news and erotica. He then became the protagonist of Al Shapiro's ''Harry Chess: That Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.'', which began running in ''Drum'' in April 1965 and ended in 1966.〔 These early strips, edited by ''Drum'' publisher Clark Polak, were reprinted in a collection entitled ''The Uncensored Adventures of Harry Chess 0068 7/8: That Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.'' (1966).
After ''Drum'' ceased publication, the character's strips were picked up by ''Queen's Quarterly''. In 1977, the series began appearing in ''Drummer'' magazine, where Shapiro served as art director.〔 Strips were reprinted in various volumes of Leyland Publications' ''Meatmen'' series in the 1980s.〔
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