A complete issue · 212 pages · 1919
The Blue Book Magazine, July 1919
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1919 — 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 · 1919
This July 1919 issue of Blue Book Magazine features "The End Worth While," a novelette by William R. and Louis Duryea Lighton concerning the Arkansas lumber industry. The issue also includes a serial titled "Oh, You Tex!" by William MacLeod Raine, described as a virile Western story set in cattle country. The magazine contains sixteen short stories in various genres. Edison Marshall's "From a Frontiersman's Diary" opens with "The Last Command," a wilderness tale depicting an old trapper's encounter with trapped wildlife in the Oregon lakes region. Additional stories include Albert Payson Terhune's "The Actor-Man" about amateur theatricals, Harold Cary's "The Spur" concerning business life, H. Bedford-Jones's "Pure Business" set in a Chinese desert, and Holman Day's "Splitting Even with Mr. Tutt," featuring a rebellious sea-cook. George Allan England's "Bennington's Bath" is promoted as humorous throughout. The August issue preview advertises Frank L. Packard's serialized "The White Moll," an underworld crime series, alongside mystery and romance novelettes.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.