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Publications like The Baltimore Afro-American and The Chicago Defender ran serialized stories. The most famous was , which serialized the works of Chester Himes. Himes’ detective duo, "Coffin Ed" Johnson and "Grave Digger" Jones, appeared in serialized chunks before becoming novels. This black serial literary tradition gave birth to the "Blaxploitation" novel of the 1970s—characters like Shaft started as serialized magazine stories. black serial