Adventure, June 1, 1927

Catalog Note This June 1927 issue of *Adventure* magazine contains fiction by established pulp authors and poets. Henry Herbert Knibbs contributes the poem "Chang Chung Chang," depicting Chinese soldiers during wartime—describing them as "little men" moving through war-torn landscape as a great bronze gong sounds their leader's name repeatedly. Harry G. Huse's short story "Red Symbols" centers on a garage proprietor in a remote tourist area who employs a deaf, part-Native American mechanic known as "Deef Smith." The mechanic has painted Indian pictographs on the garage sign—images he created in an almost trancelike state that a visiting professor identifies as genuine indigenous art representing modern events. The proprietor speaks of Smith's increasing focus on scrutinizing tourists' faces, suggesting an unspecified search. Other fiction by Alan LeMay, Edward U. McKenna, Ernest Haycox, John Webb, Gordon Young, Thomson Burtis, Melvyn O. Frost, and Roger Pocock round out the issue, along with the "Adventures in the Making" advisory section.