Munsey's Magazine, April 1915

Munsey's Magazine promoted itself as a general-interest periodical for middle-class readers, but this issue's cover announces "Egypt: A New Chapter in the Story of the Land of Sixty Centuries" by Richard Le Gallienne. The cover features a photograph rather than illustration—a harbor scene at Port Said showing steamships, feluccas with characteristic triangular sails, and colonial-era architecture reflected in the Suez Canal. The Egyptian winged scarab motif frames the title in Art Deco style. Published during World War I, Munsey's blended adventure reportage with fiction, helping establish the template for popular magazines that would feed the emerging pulp market and, eventually, comic books.