A complete issue · 248 pages · 1906
The Argosy, October 1906
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1906 — all 248 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 248 pages · 1906
This issue of The Argosy contains one complete twelve-chapter novel and six serial stories alongside nine short stories. The featured novel is "On the Spur of the Moment" by Casper Carson, following a man seeking to lose his identity. The serials include "That Little Locked Case" by Cromwell Knox, concerning a businessman and a mysterious article; "The Scarlet Scarab" by Albert Payson Terhune, set in contemporary Naples with an American pursuing romance; "A Cue from Chance" by James F. Demerit, depicting backstage musical comedy production; "An Age of Madness" by Seward W. Hopkins, involving an airship construction scheme on an island; "In the Wake of the Scimitar" by William Wallace Cook, about an unexpected inheritance; and "Caught" by Bertram Lebahr, a postal clerk's romance entangled in circumstantial evidence. Short stories include contributions from George Carling, Melville F. Ferguson, Elizabeth York Miller, Frederic Reddale, C. Langton Clarke, John Quincy Mawhinney, Edgar Franklin, Leander S. Keyser, and Martin M. Foss, covering diverse subjects from investments to family situations.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.