| Rick "Mad Dog" Mattix |
| Rick Mattix is the co-author (with William J. Helmer) of Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past, 1919-1940 and The Complete Public Enemy Almanac. He has also authored numerous articles on 20s and 30s crime and contributed chapters to Tracie Hill's Thompson, The American Legend: The First Submachine Gun and the expanded edition of Dillinger: The Untold Story by G. Russell Girardin and Helmer. With his wife Linda, Mattix also publishes the On the Spot quarterly mail-order journal of crime and law enforcement in the 1920s and '30s but is otherwise highly selective about collaborative efforts or consultancy on other writing projects or in further media appearances, either film, radio, or news publications. The Mattixs reside in Bussey, Iowa. |
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| Now available from Cumberland House Publishing |
| Standup comic Bill Helmer doing one of his best known routines, his famed impression of outlaw John Dillinger. |
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| Mattix firing Colt 21AC Thompson submachine gun stolen by John Dillinger in his famous "wooden gun" jailbreak from Crown Point, Indiana. |
| Mattix with Fred "Killer" Burke's 21A Thompson used in St. Valentine's Day Massacre. |
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| Mattix serves as bodyguard to crime historian R.D. Morgan at Muskogee, Oklahoma booksigning. Mattix is the young, good-looking man in black. Morgan is the more mature-looking elderly gentleman wearing fedora. |
| Mattix with older bodyguards Rick Porrello and John Binder, inexplicably standing at Itasca, Illinois sitdown. Rick P. seems to bubble with enthusiasm while the slight smirk on "West Side Jack" perhaps betrays an envy of Mattix's attraction for young and beautiful female gangster groupies. |
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| Mattix at left in one of his rare moments of relaxation. |
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| Mattix, often mistaken for Waylon Jennings, and historian Sandy Jones, often mistaken for Terry Bradshaw, posing with Tommyguns and a 1933 Essex Terraplane once owned by Dillinger. |
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| Morgan and Mattix with fans Verla Geller (grandniece of Ma Barker) and Pam Tippet (granddaughter of Edna "The Kissing Bandit" Murray. |
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| Would you buy a used car (or book) from this crazy looking bastard? |
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