A complete issue · 196 pages · 1923
Adventure Magazine Cover, June 20, 1923
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1923 — all 196 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 196 pages · 1923
This issue of Adventure magazine (June 20, 1923) features several fiction pieces. "The Fool Killer" by Joel Townsley Rogers is a complete novel set in Hudson Valley that opens with escape bells from Sing Sing prison—a known murderer has broken free. The town marshal Nibbick Craven learns the escaped killer may be Nero Cram, a figure several townspeople fear. A mysterious bald man boards a ferry across the Hudson. Other content includes "The Pigeons of Wong Foo" by J. Allan Dunn (South Seas pearl pirates), "Black Danger" by Mary Shannon (Idaho horse-racing story), "The Rat-Trap" by Dale Collins (maritime ambush), "Foils of Fate" by Ruland V. E. Waltner (backwoods murder), "Hurricane Williams' Vengeance" by Gordon Young (Part III, Pacific raids), "The Flusher" by Anthony M. Rud (swamp-country novelette), and "Appearances" by F.R. Buck (border-sheriff novelette). Historical and practical articles round out the issue.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.