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The best issue yet of this well-respected journal covering early to mid 20th-century adventure, mystery, and melodrama in all its pop-culture permutations. The in-depth, fastidiously researched articles cover gangster pulps of the Prohibition era, editorial requirements of top-selling all-fiction magazines publishing during the 1920s, movies based on the stories of Western author Walt Coburn, the 1943 cliffhanger serial based on Zack Mosley's "Smilin' Jack" comic strip, and the genesis of Doc Savage's archenemy John Sunlight. Prolific pop-culture painter and illustrator Norman Saunders is the subject of an extensive portfolio assembled and introduced by his son David. All told the issue runs well over 100 pages.