Weird Tales, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928)
The January 1928 issue of Weird Tales, a Chicago pulp magazine of horror, ghost and science fiction stories edited for a mass newsstand readership, with a cover by C. C. Senf and fiction including Wilford Branch Talman. The indexed pages are back-of-book advertising: line-drawn spectacles, tires, a vest-pocket adding machine and a speeding locomotive, halftone before-and-after skin portraits, coupons and heavy display lettering useful for period type, mail-order layout and small spot cuts.




