A complete issue · 5 pages · 1927
Munsey's Magazine, Volume XC
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1927 — 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 index represents Munsey's Magazine Volume XC (February–May 1927), a general-interest pulp periodical containing eleven novels and novelettes alongside approximately sixty short stories. Featured novelettes include "Borrowed Reputations" by Harry Sinclair Draco, "The Crimson Girl" by Charles K. Harris and Edna Sherry, and "Poor Pirates!" by George Allan England. Short stories span multiple genres: adventure tales like "Law of the Jungle" and "Hunter's Moon" by Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Casserly; crime and mystery pieces such as "Killer's Mate" and "Fugitive from Justice"; domestic comedies including Jerome K. Jerome's "Marrying for Money" and "Mr. Ponting's Trousers"; and romantic stories like "Screen Idyl" and "Soft as Velvet." Contributing authors include established names like Ellis Parker Butler, George Sterling, and J. S. Fletcher alongside prolific pulp writers Richard Howells Watkins and E. K. Means, representing the magazine's characteristic mix of mainstream and genre fiction.
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