A complete issue · 180 pages · 1947
Mammoth Adventure, March 1947
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1947 — 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 · 1947
This March 1947 Ziff-Davis pulp magazine contains four action-adventure stories. "Valley of the Big Smoke" by Frances M. Deegan (26,500 words) features pilot Joe Dobson navigating dangers in the frozen North. "No Holds Barred" by Alexander Blade (11,400 words) depicts wrestlers Jim and Benjy combining brains with brawn. "Cavern's End" by C. A. Baldwin (19,000 words) concerns a ship's stoker who is also a doctor, with character Jean, set in the South Pacific pre-war. "Panama Adder" by H. B. Hickey (36,000 words), the cover story, follows Mason confronting Blackwell in Central American jungle. The issue additionally includes numerous non-fiction articles: "America's Camel Caravan," "The Reptile Man," "Wolf Children of Midnapore," "Secrets of the Sea," and pieces on Hindu temples and Arctic exploration, among others.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.