A complete issue · 196 pages · 1922
Adventure, February 20, 1922
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1922 — all 196 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 196 pages · 1922
This February 20, 1922 Adventure magazine issue contains eight stories and several miscellaneous features. "The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil" by Talbot Mundy is a complete novel set in Palestinian intrigue and insurrection, featuring protagonists Grim and an unnamed narrator investigating corruption in Hebron. "The White Dawn" (Part II) by Hugh Pendexter concerns Revolutionary spies in Manhattan. "The Closed Trail" by William Wells is a Western novelette about feuding cattlemen. Additional stories include "Fish for the Gunner" by Charles Victor Fischer (Pacific Coast radio trouble), "Wise Men and a Mule" by W.C. Tuttle (Western Christmas pageant), "Two Scalps at Seventy-Six" (pioneer narrative), "The Odyssey of Chandar Roy" (Indian-Malaysian intrigue), "Up-Stream" by Robert Simpson (West African bayou fighting), "The Gate in the Sky" by Harold Lamb (Siberian frontier adventure), and "A Burned Steak" by E.E. Harriman (naval submarine story). Supplementary features include poetry, departments addressing outdoor topics, weapons lore, and readers' correspondence.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.