A complete issue · 196 pages · 1928
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A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1928 — 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 · 1928
This November 15, 1928 issue of Adventure magazine features diverse fiction across multiple genres. The lead story is "The Big League Miracle" by Talbot Mundy, continuing his Ben Quorn series set in India. Quorn, a former Philadelphia taxi driver now managing the rajah's elephants, faces complications when inhabitants believe he is the reincarnation of an ancient sage. The issue includes "A Notched Gun" by Walt Coburn, a Western tale spanning old frontier and French battlefields; "Postscriptum" by F. R. Buckley, set in medieval Italy; and "Pioneer" by Harry G. Huse, depicting a homesteader's story. Additional entries are "The Dance of the Scarlet Leopards" by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (Siberian serial part two), "Seaworthy" by Ralph R. Perry (North Atlantic adventure), "Then Luck Came In" by Andrew A. Caffrey (Army airmen), and the complete novel "Circus Daze" by Thomson Burtis, addressing circus life and border air patrol. Articles include "Nomads of the Andes" by Edgar Young and poems. The issue cost 25 cents.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.