The Popular Magazine, March 7, 1922

This pulp magazine cover depicts an ice hockey scene rendered in the vivid chromolithographic style of early twentieth-century American illustration. A young player in a red knit cap and white sweater crouches at the boards, stick raised, while a coach or older player in a green cap watches from behind. The crowd in the background and frozen pond setting exemplify sports imagery that dominated popular periodicals of the 1920s. Pulp magazines like this one, with illustrated covers and serialized stories, formed a crucial bridge between nineteenth-century dime novels and the modern comic book, establishing conventions of visual narrative, character types, and reader engagement that would define the medium for decades.