The Popular Magazine, March 7, 1921

This pulp magazine cover depicts two male characters in conversation, rendered in the illustrative style typical of 1920s popular fiction. The figure on the left wears a suit and fedora; the man on the right, depicted with exaggerated facial features and a beard, holds a cigar and wears glasses and a cap. The cover advertises fiction by Frank Lillie Pollock, Henry Herbert Knibbs, and Roy Norton. The image reflects the visual conventions of its era, including ethnic caricature common in early-twentieth-century American print media. Street & Smith's *Popular Magazine* was among dozens of affordable weeklies that brought serialized adventure, western, and romance fiction to mass audiences, establishing visual storytelling formats that would influence comic strip and pulp illustration design.