A Spanish-language pulp adventure magazine featuring a cowboy protagonist in red shirt and Stetson, revolver drawn, confronting a massive crocodile or reptilian creature. The cover announces the story "El monstruo" (The Monster) by Fidel Prado, with mounted riders silhouetted across the masthead. Priced at 3 pesetas, this publication exemplifies the European pulp tradition—adventure serials printed on wood-pulp stock with vivid painted covers that promised exotic locales and physical danger. The Jim Texas character, likely a house protagonist across multiple issues, embodied the action-adventure formula that dominated Spanish popular periodicals of the 1940s, blending Western frontier tropes with monster-hunting narratives to attract working-class readers seeking affordable thrills beyond their daily lives.
About this artifact
- Date
- 1940
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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