A complete issue · 198 pages · 1897
Argosy, Volume XXIII — Index Page, 1897
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1897 — all 198 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 198 pages · 1897
This volume contains complete novels, serial stories, short stories, and poems spanning adventure, crime, mystery, and romance genres. Complete novels include William Murray Graydon's Captives of the Czar and The Crime of Maximy Petrov, and Lieutenant John Lloyd's An Army Bride. Serial fiction includes Living It Down by Talbot Baines Reed (running across multiple installments), The Major's Plot by Graydon, In Gallant Service by Richard Wolff, and Making a Man of Himself by Oliver Optic. Short stories feature titles like The Avenging Tiger, Circus Vengeance, and A Little Coward, with authors including Frank W. Calkins and Thomas Winthrop Hall. The featured complete story in the July 1897 issue is A Campaign of Strategy, depicting a solitary horseman named R. Field Atwood crossing Arizona's desert toward a neighboring ranch, establishing the narrative premise involving Apache encounters and the protagonist's passion for photography.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.