A complete issue · 192 pages · 1920
Munsey's Magazine, February 1920
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1920 — all 192 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 192 pages · 1920
This February 1920 issue of Munsey's Magazine features "No Defense" by Gilbert Parker, illustrated by C.D. Williams. The narrative follows Dyck Calhoun, a 25-year-old Irish gentleman of good family but undisciplined habits, living near his father's estate at Playmore. While walking the hillside, Calhoun encounters Sheila Llyn, a seventeen-year-old visitor to the district. After an immediate attraction, the two walk together and discover an elderly peasant, Christopher Dogan (a local figure known as "the Doctor Man"), collapsed on the road with a head injury. As Calhoun and Sheila assist the old man back to consciousness, their hands touch while supporting him, creating an intimate moment suggesting the beginning of romantic entanglement. The narrative establishes themes of Irish rural life, class distinctions, and the complications of chance encounters.
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