The first issue of Wood’s The Underworld was dated May 1927. Underworld, the film, released in August ’27, may have been announced as in-production earlier in the year, but connections between the magazine and the film, other than the title, aren’t apparent.
We reprint the majority of Hersey’s editorials in this book. That wouldn’t have been necessary to demonstrate his response to the censorship, but the editorials proved to be as lurid as the stories, and entertaining in their own right.