A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1877 — 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 · 1877

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2

1877 · Free to read

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 2 of 16 — 2 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 3 of 16 — 3 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 4 of 16 — 4 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 5 of 16 — 5 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 6 of 16 — 6 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 7 of 16 — 7 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 8 of 16 — 8 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 9 of 16 — 9 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 10 of 16 — 10 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 11 of 16 — 11 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 12 of 16 — 12 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 13 of 16 — 13 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 14 of 16 — 14 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 15 of 16 — 15 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, Vol. 1, No. 2 — page 16 of 16 — 16 / 16

About this issue

This issue of Beadle's Half-Dime Library (No. 98, 1877) contains "Yellowstone Jack; or, Trappers of the Enchanted Ground" by Joseph E. Badger. The opening chapters depict an emigrant wagon train caught in a catastrophic mountain storm—the "pouderee"—in Shicha-chetish Pass. A hurricane with snow, sleet, and hailstones destroys wagons, kills animals, and injures travelers. Young Frank Maynard pursues a runaway spring wagon carrying women including Ada Dixon and Minnie Warren through the tempest in a desperate rescue attempt. The chase leads into a narrower pass where Maynard discovers the wagon approaching a ravine with felled tree-tops concealing a precipice. Unable to stop the terror-stricken horses, Maynard's rescue effort appears to end in disaster as the animals plunge toward death. The narrative combines frontier adventure with melodramatic peril and romance elements.

Browse this issue page by page

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