The companion magazine to Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Fantastic Novels Magazine initially reprinted longer stories from the Frank A. Munsey library of classic fantasy & science fiction pulps, including stories from magazines such as Argosy, The All-Story, The Scrap Book and The Cavalier. The first issue contains classic stories by Austin Hall & Homer Eon Flint, and Perley Poore Sheehan, and artwork by Virgil Finlay.