A dime weekly featuring Fred Fearnot, the popular boy hero of pulp adventure fiction, competing in a harness racing match. The cover illustrates the climactic moment—Fearnot's horse racing toward victory as spectators cheer from the grandstand below. By Hal Standish, this story exemplifies the athletic adventure yarns that dominated youth publications in the early 1900s. Wood-pulp weeklies like Work and Win serialized tales of pluck and determination, mixing sports competition with melodrama. The bright chromolithographic palette and energetic scene composition—crowded stands, straining horses, dramatic movement—typified cover art designed to catch a young reader's eye at the newsstand for five cents.
About this artifact
- Date
- November 6, 1903
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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