A complete issue · 192 pages · 1920
Munsey's Magazine, April 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 Hardiston novel by Ben Ames Williams, illustrated by Lee Conrey, follows Barber John Bolton's return from eighteen years in prison. Bolton killed a drunken country doctor who fatally poisoned Bolton's wife Nellie with cyanide instead of medicine. Bolton left behind his young son, John Carmichael, now a grown man working at the town bank and engaged to Emily Yates. As Bolton arrives by train with his brother Cal, a horse-trader who narrates a lengthy anecdote about shrewdly trading a mare with bone spavin to a man named Jem Howe, Bolton anticipates reunion with his son and gauges Hardiston's reception. Cal reassures him that former townspeople—bank president Eli Yates, lawyer Henry Canter, furnace operator Charley Marsh—support him. Bolton struggles with eighteen years of accumulated time: automobiles replace horses, trolley-cars run through town, industrial pipe-works line the creek. At the station, lawyer Canter greets him warmly as old acquaintances gather.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.