A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1895 — all 16 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.

Home › Exhibition › Pulp Fiction › Read

A complete issue · 16 pages · 1895

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942

1895 · Free to read

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 2 of 16 — 2 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 3 of 16 — 3 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 4 of 16 — 4 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 5 of 16 — 5 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 6 of 16 — 6 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 7 of 16 — 7 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 8 of 16 — 8 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 9 of 16 — 9 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 10 of 16 — 10 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 11 of 16 — 11 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 12 of 16 — 12 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 13 of 16 — 13 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 14 of 16 — 14 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 15 of 16 — 15 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 16 of 16 — 16 / 16

About this issue

This issue of Beadle and Adams' pulp weekly contains "Buffalo Bill's Tough Tussle; or, The Buckskin Boss Boy" by Col. Prentiss Ingraham. An assassin hidden on a cliff attempts to kill Colonel Carrol Doan, commander of Fort Belvue, but the bullet strikes Doan's medal and he survives. Buffalo Bill, riding with the cavalry escort, pursues the shooter with his lariat and rifle. Meanwhile, the attacker—a fugitive hermit—reaches his cabin in a remote canyon where his adopted seventeen-year-old son Don tends his fatal wound. Before dying, the hermit reveals he sought revenge against Doan, acknowledges Indian Dick as a renegade guide leading the soldiers into a trap, praises Buffalo Bill's marksmanship, and bequeaths Don gold hidden in the mountains plus a buried treasure. Don, determined to prevent the soldiers' death, immediately departs to warn them.

Browse this issue page by page

Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.