A complete issue · 180 pages · 1922
Argosy All-Story Weekly, 4 February 1922
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1922 — all 180 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 180 pages · 1922
This issue of Argosy-Allstory Weekly (vol. CXL, no. 3, February 4, 1922) contains several features based on the OCR text, though the table of contents is largely illegible. A serial titled "The Fight of a Western Girl Against Great Odds" by Douglas Grant appears prominently, offering a domestic adventure or romance narrative. The magazine's fictional content is overshadowed in the surviving pages by extensive classified advertising for sales training, electrical engineering correspondence courses, patent medicines (Mellin's Food for infants), mail-order tailoring, and various get-rich-quick schemes typical of the period—raincoat distribution, hosiery sales, magic soap, and toilet article sets. The advertising suggests the magazine's readership was primarily working-class men seeking economic advancement. Beyond the Grant story's title, the interior narrative content remains obscured by OCR degradation.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.