A complete issue · 5 pages · 1926
Munsey's Magazine, Volume LXXIX
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1926 — all 5 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
About this issue
This volume of Munsey's Magazine (October 1926–January 1927) contains ten novelettes and serials, including George F. Worts' Double Doubloons, Charles K. Harris' The Bum, Harry Sinclair Drago's Where the Loon Calls, and Earl Wayland Bowman's The Gamble-Horse of Dead Angel Mountain. The collection features numerous short stories in varied genres: mysteries and crime (Custard's Last Fight, Double Crisis), domestic and romantic fiction (His One Best Betty, The Bride's Biscuits), adventure and adventure-fantasy (Diversion in the Seventh Oasis, Out of the Fourth Dimension), and character studies. Authors include established pulp contributors like Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, William Merriam Rouse, and Rolf Bennett. Stories range across settings from contemporary America to exotic locales, addressing themes of chance, morality, human nature, and personal transformation.
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