A complete issue · 180 pages · 1946
Mammoth Adventure, September 1946
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1946 — all 180 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 180 pages · 1946
This issue contains five fiction works spanning adventure and mystery genres. The lead novel is E. Hoffman Price's "Father of the Scourge" (66,000 words), a historically-grounded adventure set in colonial Africa concerning the Khalifa's rule over a quarter of the continent. William P. McGivern contributes "Rat Race in Rio" (7,800 words), depicting criminal contestants in a disreputable scheme. H. B. Hickey's novelet "Assignment Barcelona" (11,000 words) follows an agent confronted with violent circumstances. Alexander Blade's cover-featured "Traders in Death" (10,000 words) involves unscrupulous dealings and female characters. W. W. Kerle's brief story "The Witness" (1,600 words) presents a courtroom drama where a woman must testify to murder. The issue also features nonfiction pieces on aviation, exploration, and natural phenomena, including Dwight V. Swain's "Jungle Napoleon," a factual article on an adventurer.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.