A complete issue · 164 pages · 1929
Adventure Trails, February 1929
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1929 — all 164 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 164 pages · 1929
This issue of Adventure magazine published by Clayton features seven action and adventure stories. "The Might of the Scorpion" by Sewell Peaslee Wright depicts Ted McKay extracting venom from a deadly scorpion. A non-fiction serial, "Through the War on a Submarine," relates actual wartime sub-sea adventures as told to D.W. Hall by Captain J.D. Dryburgh. "The Spirit of France" by S.B.H. Hurst tells of a white dancer among Mohammedans amid religious unrest. Other stories include "Black Arrows," a northwoods trapper fighting fire; "The Sub and the Merchant Prince" by F.V.W. Mason about submarine conflict; "Devil Valley" exploring a northwestern valley of terror; "Maehoe" by Murray Leinster concerning a brutal white man and a faithful Black man; and "Passengers," featuring a deserted derelict ship that kidnaps a passenger. A regular prospecting department, "With Pick and Pan" by John A. Thompson, and reader correspondence section complete the contents.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.