A complete issue · 192 pages · 1927
Munsey's Magazine, December 1927
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1927 — 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 · 1927
This December 1927 Munsey's Magazine issue contains "Be Yourself!"—a complete novelette by Edgar Franklin about a young mechanical engineer's unconventional scheme. William Rodgers, repeatedly unemployed after three firms collapse around him, discovers he is a striking physical double for Samuel Lorne, a newly wealthy oil magnate from California with forty-four million dollars. After convincing his skeptical roommate Henry Field, Rodgers decides to approach Lorne with an entrepreneurial proposition: become his professional "double," earning a hundred dollars weekly by impersonating him when business engagements require his presence in multiple locations simultaneously. The narrative follows Rodgers' determination to pursue this audacious opportunity despite practical obstacles and Henry's doubts, setting up complications promised by the story's subtitle.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.