A complete issue · 400 pages · 1891
Munsey's Magazine
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1891 — all 400 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 400 pages · 1891
This bound volume collects six months of Munsey's Magazine, a general-interest periodical combining illustrated features with fiction. The issue includes three running serials: "The Christian" by Hall Caine, "Corleone" by F. Marion Crawford, and "In the Reign of Boris" by Robert McDowell. Short fiction appears from established and newer writers—stories like "A Broken Lorgnette" by Joseph Sebastian Rookes, "My Last Affair," and "The Parson of Cactus Flats" by Vernon Day. The magazine features substantial nonfiction sections on portraiture (articles on Reynolds and Lawrence), American genealogy (the Carrolls, Paints, Washingtons, and Polks), and royal history. A significant arts section covers contemporary painting in France and America, including work by women artists Juana Romani and Henriette Ronner, plus American mural decoration projects in Washington and Peoria libraries. Departments include regular columns on theater, music, and current events, plus numerous poems from period verse writers.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.