Munsey's Magazine, March 1920

Munsey's Magazine devoted its March 1920 issue to "The Adventures of Captain Henry Hale," a serialized tale of treasure and piracy by John Fleming Wilson, illustrated by George E. Wolfe. The story appeared in Munsey's during the peak years of the pulp magazine era, when such publications dominated newsstands with adventure fiction that would directly influence the development of comic books. Adventure serials like this one—featuring seafaring rogues, hidden treasure, and maritime danger—established narrative and visual conventions that pulp successors and comic books would adopt and refine throughout the twentieth century.