A complete issue · 5 pages · 1926
Munsey's Magazine, Volume LXXXVIII (1926)
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 a general fiction magazine contains seven novelettes and novellas by authors including Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Frank A. Munsey, Kenneth Perkins, and George F. Worts. Holding's "Blotted Out" appears as a continued serial. The novelettes span domestic and adventure themes, with titles like "Open Range" and "Fire Trail" suggesting Western content. The bulk of the issue comprises over sixty short stories in varied genres: mysteries and crime tales ("Amateur Criminals," "Framed," "Arch Diplomat"), romantic comedies ("He Wanted to Kiss a Girl," "Her Fling at Life," "Cinderella in Autumn"), and lighter humorous pieces ("Lamb Pie and the Dog Catcher," "Ninety-Ton Toothpicks"). Several stories address contemporary social situations ("Publicity Girl," "Her Excellency the Governor," "Tourist-Class"). Contributors include T. T. Flynn, Homer Croy, and numerous other prolific pulp writers of the era.
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