Penny Dreadfuls, 1867 · page 149 of 300
Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter — page 149: what you’re looking at
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# Content Description This is an interior page of a Victorian penny dreadful featuring both illustration and text. The large engraving depicts a dramatic rooftop scene with figures in period dress appearing to escape or evade pursuit. Below the illustration runs serialized prose dialogue and narrative: characters named Ellen and Violet discuss their escape from pirates on an island, their plans to build a raft and pursue a captured woman, and their retrieval of salvaged supplies including tools, weapons, and ammunition. The page concludes with "THE ESCAPE.—SEE NEXT NUMBER," indicating serial continuation in the next installment (No. 22).
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