Pulp Fiction, 1938 · page 43 of 148
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What you’re looking at
This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring an illustration and the opening prose of a story titled "Trigger Typhoon" by John Dorman. The dramatic black-and-white illustration depicts a man with an axe aboard a sailing ship, with sailors visible below deck. The visible text introduces Eric Nelson, described as a skipper with a "black-marked ticket" aboard the four-masted schooner *Evelyn Clark*, bound from New York to Tampa in ballast. The mate, Whitey Summers, is preparing to go below deck. The story appears to be maritime adventure fiction involving some form of conflict or danger at sea.
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By John Dorman Eric Nelson was'‘a skipper with a black-marked ticket. And his cap- taincy of the Evelyn Clark made his future look blacker. For his destination was the double-cross- roads of the sea. sk four-masted schooner E'velym Clark, bound out of New York in ballast for Tampa, was well at sea by midnight. Captain Eric Nelson, a big ruddy, raw-boned man of thirty-four or- dered the mate called then, and prepared to go below. The mate, Whitey Summers by name, came onto the moonlit poop almost at Gomichbook (E@)