The Popular Magazine

Contents: Popular Magazine, February 20, 1922 This issue features several serials and complete works across adventure, mystery, and humor genres. Theodore Seixas Solomons contributes "Vassals of the Ice," a complete novel set in Alaskan gold fields where protagonist Ed Holter races against winter to develop a fortune near Kotzebue Sound, aboard the ship New Whatcomb. George Hugh Banning continues "Spunyarn" (part II), involving tragedy aboard the Aggie Newmiller and a mysterious transformation. Holman Day's five-part serial "The Spark in the Tinder" (part III) follows a character through legal battles and wilderness challenges. Ralph D. Paine's true adventure narrative "Bright Roads of Adventure" (part VII) describes the warship Gussie. H.C. Witwer parodies "Classics in Slang" with a Monte Cristo reference. Additional stories by Thomas McMorrow, Albert Payson Terhune, Calvin Johnston, and Percival Wilde round out the issue.