This image shows only the catalog number 12716 printed twice on an otherwise blank page — no cover art is visible here. The World's Wonder Stories (1920) belonged to the early wood-pulp adventure market that preceded the dedicated science-fiction pulps Hugo Gernsback would formalize with Amazing Stories in 1926. These short-lived wonder-and-invention titles trafficked in Vernean extrapolation and lost-world romance, selling breathless machinery of the future to a readership shaped by the Wright Brothers and the first World War. Their formula — extraordinary premise, cliffhanger prose, illustrated cover as promise — passed directly into the DNA of comic books two decades later.
About this artifact
- Date
- 1920
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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