A complete issue · 196 pages · 1918
Adventure, July 18, 1918
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1918 — 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 · 1918
This mid-July 1918 issue of Adventure magazine, edited by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman and published by The Ridgway Company, contains eight fiction pieces alongside poetry and departmental columns. The lead feature is Robert V. Carr's complete novel The Survivor, set in the Arizona desert where rancher King Norn battles professional criminals and bandits over a valuable item called the Kohinoor. Harold Titus contributes "A Fish Story About Love," set in Michigan's Boardman Valley fishing grounds, while Louis Esson offers "The Pearl of Torres," an adventure tale set in the South Seas concerning pearl diving. Hugh Pendexter's "The Skidi Feed the Evening Star" treats Pawnee history and conflict. Additional stories include E. S. Pladwell's "On Short Allowance" (seafaring narrative), Thomas Addison's serialized "For the Flag" (Part II, involving espionage and a mysterious woman), Nevil G. Henshaw's "The Trail at Landry" (set in Louisiana), W.C. Tuttle's Western comic tale "A Prevaricated Parade," Roy P. Churchill's "Off the Course" (tropical maritime adventure with crew conflict), and Carroll K. Michener's "The Twelve Padlocks" (Chinese-American challenge story). Bertoo Braley provides a poem titled "The Roughneck."
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.