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Philip Marlowe, an Uncommon card
Philip Marlowe is a fictional private detective created by Raymond Chandler who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The genre originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared.
- Though Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep, Chandler's early short stories, published in pulp magazines such as Black Mask and Dime Detective since 1933, starred various prototype detectives with names like "Carmady" and "John Dalmas." Several of the aforementioned short stories, when republished in the collection The Simple Art of Murder, changed the names of the protagonists…
- Underneath the wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough 'private eye' exterior, Marlowe is quietly contemplative, philosophical and enjoys chess and poetry.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Philip Marlowe article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Philip Marlowe
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Philip Marlowe (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Warner Bros., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.