Adventure Magazine, February 28, 1922

A sailing vessel erupts in flames against a turbulent sea, with smaller ships visible in the distant haze. The cover announces Adventure's three-times-monthly publication schedule and twenty-five-cent price point. The magazine, which debuted in 1910, pioneered the pulp adventure genre through serialized fiction by writers including G.A. Wells, Edgar Young, and Ferdinand Berthoud. Adventure's painted covers and action-driven narratives—set across exotic locales and historical scenarios—established conventions that would influence comic book storytelling for decades. The magazine's formula of dramatic maritime and terrestrial escapades, delivered on cheap wood-pulp paper, created a mass market for illustrated adventure that outlasted the pulp era itself.