Ripley's Believe It or Not! #2

This anthology issue features Ripley's collection of illustrated oddities and curiosities. The cover story highlights "The Human Pin Cushion," a man who walks miles in the blazing sun with fifty spears embedded in his flesh. Interior sections include optical illusions and visual paradoxes in "Seeing's Not Believing," a showcase of unusual cats in "The Cat's Meow" (featuring animals born without tails, cats that open doors, and a Persian cat that eats full meals), and a narrative account of a man named Nicolai who hid a gun beneath his tattooed garments to smuggle it into the Czar's palace in St. Petersburg.