Argosy All-Story Weekly, January 29, 1923

A woman in a white dress and wide-brimmed hat reaches across a green gaming table, chips and cards scattered before her, while a cluster of men — one elderly and stooped, another younger and intent — crowd behind her. The scene illustrates Elizabeth York Miller's serial The Greatest Gamble, its cover-line lettered in warm gold against the painted scene. Above it all, the masthead's bold red banner and white block capitals announce Argosy All-Story Weekly, the result of Frank Munsey merging two landmark pulps in 1920. Printed on cheap wood-pulp paper and sold for a dime, Argosy had pioneered the all-fiction magazine since 1882, publishing the serialized adventure, romance, and crime fiction whose genre conventions — and painted cover dramatics — passed directly into the comic book.