A complete issue · 172 pages · 1923
Detective Story Magazine, March 3, 1923
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1923 — all 172 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 172 pages · 1923
This issue of Detective Story Magazine contains one complete novel, two serials, and four short stories. The featured novel is "For the Woman They Loved" by Adele Luehrmann. The first serial, "Spooky Hollow" by Carolyn Wells, appears in its second installment; the second serial, "The Great Safe Mystery" by John Laurence, is in its fourth installment. Short stories include "The Moth" by Charles G. Booth, "Deadly Safety" by Thorne Miller (a Pinklin West story), "Absolutely Cut Off" by Kenneth Duane Whipple, and "Without Pores" by Roy W. Hinds. The issue also features a special article on confidence games by Edgeworth Downer titled "Little Adventures in 'Con.'" The department section includes features on handwriting analysis, fingerprint identification, success advice, and miscellaneous news items covering actual crimes and criminal investigations.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.