Adventure Magazine Cover

Adventure magazine's cover announces four serials across multiple genres. Hugh Pendexter's The Fighting Years begins a new American historical saga, while W.C. Tuttle contributes Two Fares East, a Hashknife and Sleepy western novelette. Sydney Herschel Small's The Temple of the Snake offers weird adventure fantasy, and Arthur D. Howden Smith's The Last Legion continues the Gray Maiden universe. Published twice monthly at twenty-five cents, Adventure epitomized pulp magazines' formula: illustrated covers in bold typography advertised diverse stories—westerns, historicals, exotic adventures, and supernatural tales—that established templates later adopted by comic books and pulp-derived genres.