A complete issue · 200 pages · 1922
Adventure Magazine Cover, December 10, 1922
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1922 — all 200 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 200 pages · 1922
A figure in a red shirt and blue trousers hefts a spear, one boot planted on a blue animal—possibly a wolf or dog—against white space. The costume and weaponry suggest a northern or frontier setting. Signed by Collier Harding, the cover exemplifies the visual language of pulp adventure magazines: action-packed illustration with vivid color and dynamic posture. Adventure magazine, founded in 1910, pioneered the format of selling stories by genre—exploration, warfare, survival—through painted covers and serialized fiction. These magazines, printed on cheap wood pulp and priced at twenty-five cents, established conventions that comic books would later absorb: heroic protagonists, exotic locales, and the promise of danger and discovery on every page.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.