The December 20, 1921 issue of ADVENTURE magazine carried a complete novel by J. Allan Dunn titled BAREHANDED CASTAWAYS. Unlike most yarns published in "the Dean of the Pulps," CASTAWAYS did not come in over the transom, so to speak, but was solicited by editor Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, who had brainstormed the concept with his staffers. After hashing out the premise and setting some conditions the story's writer would have to meet, Hoffman challenged...