A complete issue · 212 pages · 1924
The Blue Book Magazine, November 1924
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1924 — 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 · 1924
This issue of The Blue Book Magazine collects serial and short fiction alongside advertisements. The two featured serials are Edwin L. Sabin's "White Indian," a Rocky Mountain frontier novel set in the era of Kit Carson featuring a Crow Indian encampment in winter, and Agatha Christie's mystery novel "The Man in the Brown Suit" (concluding chapters). Short stories include Steuart M. Emery's "The Unwilling Witness" (drama), Bertram Atkey's "Easy Street Experts" featuring con-artists' adventures, H. Bedford-Jones's "The Four Red Circles" (Sahara episode), Ben Lucien Burman's "The Skunk" (Ohio River steamboat tale), Frank Richardson Pierce's "Raw Men" (Arctic narrative), Hugh Thomason's animal story "Black-Nose" (South American puma), and others spanning adventure, comedy, and contemporary settings. Additional genres include football fiction, circus stories, and diplomatic narratives. The issue emphasizes popular commercial adventure and mystery fiction.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.