A complete issue · 193 pages · 1922
Munsey's Magazine, September 1922
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1922 — all 193 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 193 pages · 1922
This September 1922 Munsey's Magazine installment features "Borrowed Fire," a romantic drama by Charles Neville Buck. The opening depicts Cullom Bowes, an usher, witnessing the wedding of his beloved Phyllis Belknap to his close friend Dick Carson. The ceremony—conducted by a bishop pronouncing them man and wife—devastates Bowes, who maintains composure through the breakfast festivities. At the reception, he befriends Joe Carson, Dick's older brother from Kentucky, a lawyer and war veteran from the Second Kentucky Regiment. Later, Phyllis leads Joe to the guarded billiard room displaying wedding gifts. While admiring ancestral portraits, Joe becomes startled upon seeing a Jewett painting of his great-uncle, Fighting Jack Powell, who died in the War of 1812. Joe cryptically references "Powells of the Cumberlands," hinting at Kentucky connections, then asks about someone named Judson Powell in recent times, raising the title's suggestion of a feud transplanted eastward.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.