A complete issue · 180 pages · 1947
Mammoth Adventure, July 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 issue of Mammoth Adventure (July 1947) features five complete adventure stories spanning historical and contemporary settings. The lead novelette, "English Steel and Spanish Passion" by Drake Williams and Warren Geiger, depicts Captain Edward Terror, a fearless privateer preying on Spanish ships during the Caribbean's golden age of piracy. Berkeley Livingston's novel "Uranium Started in Chicago" tracks Nazi activities in South America centered on uranium procurement. Lester Barclay contributes "Andean Adventure," involving a lost aircraft and a woman named Maria Cordoba in the Andes. Richard S. Shaver's novelette "The Princess and the Renegade" concerns Gonzalo Guerrero, a renegade and soldier under Cortez in sixteenth-century Central America. The issue also includes shorter fiction and a Rosicrucian Order advertisement. The cover art, painted by James B. Settles, illustrates a historically accurate Spanish galleon from the privateering era.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.