ADVENTURE, October 18, 1918

From early in this legendary magazine’s peak period, a great example of Adventure headlined by “The Mighty Manslayer,” one of Harold Lamb’s early yarns featuring Khlit the Cossack. Other Adventure top-notchers in this issue include Gordon Young, Jackson Gregory, Charles Beadle, Hugh Pendexter, and the Pinkertons. Cover by Will Crawford. Note: 1918 issues of Adventure—of all that year’s pulps, really—are extremely scarce to rare for two reasons: (1) Many of them were shipped overseas to Americans fighting the Great War in Europe, and (2) Many were thrown away or burned due to 1918’s disastrous flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. It was believed that paper goods, especially newsprint, carried flu germs—so many people disposed of new pulps as soon as they finished reading them. Condition: a solid Very Good to Very Good Plus. Front cover has some creasing and short edge tears on the right side. Back cover is lightly soiled at top and has several short edge tears. Spine is complete and white. Text block is yellowed but supple. A generally sound, collectable copy.

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