All-Story Weekly, June 5, 1915

A painted portrait bust of a young woman—dark hair swept under a close-fitting cap, gold drop earring, red lips slightly parted—dominates this ten-cent weekly's cream-toned cover. The typography is pure pulp confidence: ALL-STORY WEEKLY blazes in red block letters above her head, flanked by the date and price in cool blue. Below, two cover-lines announce the contents: John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps (serialized here before its famous book publication) billed as A War Mystery, and Fred Jackson's Cinder-Eve. All-Story, launched by the Munsey Company in 1905 on cheap wood-pulp stock, was the seedbed magazine—it published Burroughs's Tarzan and the first Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars tales—where serialized genre fiction learned the compressed, hook-driven pacing that comic books would later inherit panel by panel.