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Adventure Magazine, May 20, 1925

· May 1925

Adventure Magazine, May 20, 1925
Adventure Magazine, May 20, 1925 Issue This pulp adventure magazine contains a mix of fiction and verse spanning multiple genres and settings. The featured complete novel, "Shields of Islam" by George E. Holt, is set in Morocco and concerns a character named Mohamed resisting wealth and power. Other fiction includes "Hawg Tracks," a novelette by G. W. Barrington set in Texas following Danny Simmons, and "Hard Wood," a three-part story by Arthur O. Friel set in the Catskills involving moonshiners. "Marston and Me" by Thomson Burtis is an air-service novelette. Additional stories include "The Cunning of the Serpent" by Henry S. Whitehead, "The Proving of Old Man Lindquist" by Ralph R. Perry involving a sea captain, and "No Discretion At All" by Clements Ripley set in Mexico. Verse contributions include work by Berton Braley and Charles Nicholls Webb. The issue features the magazine's regular "Camp-Fire" reader forum and "Ask Adventure" informational service across seventy geographical categories.

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