Munsey's Magazine dominated the pulp market with adventure serials and short fiction aimed at male readers. This issue features Harold Titus's "The Last Straw," subtitled "The Winning of a Good Woman in the Bad Lands"—a frontier romance illustrated by Lee Conrey. The austere typography and descriptive cover line typify pulp marketing: a story promise delivered in plain language. Munsey's, founded in 1889, pioneered the cheap-paper magazine format and helped establish the adventure-fiction genres that would shape American popular narrative for decades, from westerns to detective stories to science fiction.
About this artifact
- Date
- October 1919, Vol. LXVIII, No. 1
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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