A complete issue · 192 pages · 1926
Munsey's Magazine, July 1926
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1926 — 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 · 1926
The Fire Trail by Kenneth Perkins This complete novelette depicts two prospectors, Ned Hardy and Rufe Carson, dying of thirst while crossing the Arizona Soda Mesa Desert in search of surface float and gold. After nearly perishing from heat exhaustion and dehydration, they are rescued by an old mucker named Joe Pazzy, who appears with water and provisions and joins their expedition to the ghost town of Mule Town. The narrative emphasizes the brutal landscape and physical degradation wrought by desert survival. After recovering overnight, Carson distrusts Pazzy's motives and urges Hardy to abandon him, despite Pazzy's lifesaving intervention. The story explores themes of frontier self-reliance, obligation, and suspicion in the lawless gold-seeker era.
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