A fashionably dressed woman in a white fur wrap and feathered hat leans over a round table, spilling the contents of a small purse — coins, bills, scattered papers — across its surface. A blue lamp glows behind her, and her expression is one of distracted urgency. The cover announces Seven Minutes After by Marguerite Curtis Felgar, signaling domestic mystery rather than gunfire or tentacles. Argosy, founded by Frank Munsey in 1882 and the first all-fiction pulp, anchored the entire wood-pulp ecosystem. At ten cents an issue, it delivered serialized adventure, crime, and romance to millions — seeding the genre vocabulary that comic books would later mine wholesale. The cover artist is unconfirmed.
About this artifact
- Date
- Published March 27, 1920 · 10¢ per copy, $4.00 per year
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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