Pulp Fiction, 1943 · page 45 of 100
12 Sports Aces, May 1943 — page 45: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine featuring both illustration and prose text. The black-and-white illustration by Fred Guardinger depicts a boxing or fighting scene with multiple figures on what appears to be a staircase or tiered structure. The story concerns a character named Matty (or Mathew) Rourke Brian, apparently a college professor who gets drawn into a boxing-related conflict after being struck by a heavyweight fighter, leading him through what the text describes as a "leather-pusher's college" run by someone skilled in violent double-crossing. The visible prose describes Rourke's encounter in what appears to be a lounge or athletic facility.
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