Adventure Magazine Cover

This May 1928 issue of Adventure magazine, edited by Anthony M. Rud, contains four full stories and several shorter works. The lead piece is Arthur O. Friel's "In the Year 2000," a three-part novel beginning with "The Sky Rider." A bored air courier navigates a futuristic aircraft—a "dragon fly" machine—over the Amazon jungle searching for a forbidden city. Following heliograph signals and older surveillance technology, he locates a vast hidden settlement ringed by rocky heights. Upon attempting to land in the city's central plaza, he encounters anti-aircraft fire from concealed weaponry, forcing evasive maneuvers. The narrative combines speculative aviation technology with adventure in unexplored territories. The issue also features H. Bedford-Jones's "The Bloody Decks of Every," a novelette set among Spanish Main pirates; "Hank Joins the Vigilantes" by Alan LeMay; "Six Pounds of Fury" by Hal Field Leslie, concerning a pioneering Swedish blacksmith; "Betelgut" by Charles Victor Fischer, set in South Pacific naval service; "Inco" by Georges Surdez, a Foreign Legion novelette; and "Lead—No Grit" by Dex Volney, involving an Alaskan manhunt.