Pulp Fiction, 1943 · page 88 of 100
12 Sports Aces, May 1943 — page 88: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring the beginning of a short story titled "Date With the Canvas" by Dale Cochrane. The page includes a black-and-white illustration showing two boxers in a fighting stance, and below it, the opening prose of the narrative. The story concerns a young man named Buddy Jenkins who has traveled from Los Angeles to New York to join his older brother Jimmy in boxing, only to discover his brother is a disreputable "stooge" in the sport. The visible text describes Buddy's arrival and nervous search for his brother at a bus station.
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Date W ith the Canvas By Dale Cochrane Buddy Jenkins came East te join his big brother in a two-ring boxing carnival. Instead, he found his brother a worthless setup stooge. And the big show was going to find Buddy, raw and inexperi- enced, pinch-hitiing against a twelve-time kayo artist. UDDY JENKINS got off the bus . B at the Fiftieth Street station and cold shivers of fright ran up and down his spine. He was seared by New York swirling all about him. And the panie of shame squeezed at his stomach. He was ashamed of what his big brother Jimmy would think when he saw him. Buddy looked down at his pants, baggy 86 as a flour sack after six days of riding— all the way from Los Angeles. He rubbed his palm alongside his jaw to feel for beard. There was no beard, but he felt dirty and grimy. And big brother Jimmy was always sharp. A sartorial Adonis! Buddy searched the crowd milling about him, peered into faces. But he did- n’t see Jimmy. He wondered if Jimmy had (e(0) 0\(0)(0) <S (EC)