A complete issue · 249 pages · 1918
Munsey's Magazine, May 1918
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1918 — all 249 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 249 pages · 1918
Munsey's Magazine covers a wartime shipbuilding initiative in this issue, featuring an industrial photograph of a steel cargo steamer under construction at a Delaware shipyard. The masthead typography and decorative ornaments reflect the magazine's turn-of-the-century design traditions, while the cover story by Edward N. Hurley, Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, shifts the publication's focus toward patriotic wartime content. Once a leader in serializing adventure fiction and fantastical tales, Munsey's had evolved by 1918 into a general-interest periodical balancing fiction, current events, and national concerns. The photograph documents American industrial capacity during World War I, replacing the illustrated adventure narratives that had defined pulp magazines and established the visual language inherited by later comic books.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.