A woman in layered Seminole-influenced dress turns away from the viewer, her braided hair pinned up, her posture caught between stillness and motion; a second, smaller figure recedes into a sun-bleached Florida landscape behind her. The painted cover advertises Perley Poore Sheehan's serial The One Gift, subtitled 'A Romance of the Seminole Country.' Bold red slab-serif lettering anchors the All-Story Weekly masthead at top — 10¢ per copy, $4 by the year. Founded in 1905 by Frank Munsey, All-Story was the proving ground for serialized adventure fiction; Edgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan here in 1912. Its wood-pulp pages and vivid covers established the storytelling grammar — exotic settings, kinetic figures, genre-tagged cover lines — that comic books would directly inherit two decades later.
About this artifact
- Date
- July 3, 1920
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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