A complete issue · 212 pages · 1918
The Blue Book Magazine, April 1918
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1918 — all 212 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 212 pages · 1918
April 1918 Issue Contents This issue features two serials: Stanley Shaw's "The Conquering Woman," a dramatic story of romance and business intrigue, and Charles Alden Seltzer's "Firebrand Trevison," depicting a conflict over a land-steal in the Western frontier. Short fiction includes B.M. Bower and Buck Connor's "The Reckoning," a Texas Rangers tale about rival brothers Bill and Bud Downey competing for waitress Betty Bryant's affection; Edwin Balmer's "Kamerad Kelly," about American seaplane pilots capturing a German spy; William Almon Wolff's "Sour Grapes," interweaving war, love, and college life; Frederick R. Bechdolt's "Two Kinds of Nerve," concerning a penitentiary guard's dilemma; and works by Kenneth MacNichol, Crittenden Marriott, James Francis Dwyer, Clarence Herbert New, Ellis Parker Butler, and A.C. Allenson. Frank R. Adams contributes a complete short novel, "Unexpected Places," involving romance, war, and mystery in America. The issue also advertises Cosmo Hamilton's serialized novel "Who Cares?," launching in The Green Book Magazine.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.