A complete, restored issue of Puck from 1877-07-11 — all 20 pages of political cartoons, chromolithograph covers, and satire, free to page through at comicbooks.com.

On the cover: # Puck's Fourth of July Cartoon (July 11, 1877) This satirical cartoon depicts an explosion of fraudulent schemes and corruption, presented as Puck's patriotic duty to expose American dishonesty on Independence Day. Various labeled bottles and containers scatter from a central blast—each appears to represent different types of fraud or corruption plaguing American society in the Reconstruction era. The caption states Puck's "FOURTH OF JULY DUTY AS A PATRIOT, AND EXPLODES ALL THE FRAUDS," positioning the magazine's satirical mission as patriotic truth-telling. While specific fraud labels are difficult to read in this image quality, the cartoon's central conceit uses Fourth of July imagery to critique systemic corruption in post-Civil War America.

🖼️ Every page has a plain-English note on what you’re looking at — the figures, the references, the point of the satire.

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