A complete issue · 184 pages · 1923
Short Stories, January 25, 1923
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1923 — all 184 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 184 pages · 1923
This issue features several adventure and western tales. "Texas Steerers" by Thomson Burtis opens the magazine with a story of crooks versus Border Patrol airmen. Harold Lamb contributes "The Voice in the Drum," while W. C. Tuttle offers "The Curse of the Painted Cliffs." The issue includes verse by Bill Adams titled "Peg-Leg, Ship's Cook" and a serial installment by Robert Welles Ritchie called "The Desert of the Three Skulls" (Part II). Additional stories include "The Soul of the Lagoons" by G. A. Wells, "Them Dizzy Dudes" by James W. Egan, "Jockey Randleman Up" by Romaine Lowdermilk and Lyle Abbott, "Peace River Pendleton" by Hamilton Craigie, and "Any Old Plug" by Wendell W. Hanmer. The editorial column discusses punctuality and time-wasting. Published semi-monthly by Doubleday, Page & Co.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.