Munsey's Magazine presents a complete novelette titled "The Wife That Wasn't" by Alice Rix. The cover announces a modern romantic narrative: a young woman with unconventional views on marriage who demands her own terms. This pulp monthly, founded in 1891, pioneered the mass-market magazine format that would dominate popular fiction for decades. Munsey's serialized adventure stories, science fiction, and romance that reached millions of readers at ten cents per issue. The magazine's typography and layout—bold display type announcing the story's premise—exemplify the direct, sensational marketing that made pulp magazines America's primary source of escapist entertainment before radio and film supplanted them in the 1930s.
About this artifact
- Date
- July 1923, Vol. LXXIX, No. 2
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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