Munsey's Magazine, September 1923

Munsey's Magazine published serialized adventure fiction to a mass audience through the early twentieth century. This issue features "It Came Out of Egypt," a six-part mystery series by Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu stories. The cover typography—bold, sans-serif headlines announcing the title and byline—typifies pulp magazine design, prioritizing legibility and immediate genre signaling. Rohmer's exotic-locale mysteries, with their plots turning on ancient curses and Oriental intrigue, exemplified the adventure-mystery hybrid that would influence pulp magazines' expansion into science fiction, horror, and crime genres. Munsey's reached millions of readers seeking escapist narrative at ten cents per issue.