A complete issue · 100 pages · 1874
The Boy Miners
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1874 — all 100 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 100 pages · 1874
The Boy Miners; or, The Enchanted Island by Edward S. Ellis (1874) follows brothers George and Edwin Inwood and their companion Jim Tubbs as they search for gold in Yellowstone country. When Mohave Indians discover their mining operation, the men flee to a cave where they are trapped. During negotiations at the cave entrance, the group captures one of the Indians. Besieged by the Mohaves outside, Edwin constructs an improvised explosive device—a stone with dynamite (Dupont's powder) and a fuse—intended to deter or disperse the attackers. The text breaks off mid-sequence as Jim prepares to hurl the charged stone outward, with the outcome of this explosive stratagem left unresolved in the provided excerpt.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.