A complete issue · 5 pages · 1916
Munsey's Magazine, Volume LIX
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1916 — 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
Munsey's Magazine, Volume LIX (October 1916–January 1917) This volume collects special articles on topics including Holy Land history, chess instruction by José Capablanca, World War I subjects (military medicine, the Red Cross, diplomatic service in war zones), and cultural essays on Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, and Indian poet Tagore. Four serials run throughout: Children of Passion by Mary Imlay Taylor, The Gift Supreme by George Allan England, Thieves' Wit by Hurlbert Footner, and Young Blood by Fred Jackson. Four novelettes by Frank R. Adams, E. Mandeville Rogers, and Grace Sartwell Mason appear alongside numerous short stories of varied types—mysteries, comedies, and character studies—by contributors including William Slavens McNutt, James Francis Dwyer, and Edgar Saltus. Theater criticism by Matthew White, Jr. appears in departmental sections.
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