Munsey's Magazine, November 1928

Munsey's Magazine published 'The Last Man on Earth,' a complete novelette by John D. Swain examining human civilization's threatened extinction in the post-war generation. Founded in 1891, Munsey's was among the first pulp magazines, printed on cheap wood-pulp paper and sold for a dime. The magazine pioneered the modern fiction pulp format, featuring adventure, science fiction, and speculative stories that captivated millions of readers through the early twentieth century. By the 1920s, Munsey's competed alongside dozens of genre pulps—Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Black Mask—whose sensational covers and serialized narratives established conventions that comic books would inherit and adapt throughout the following decades.