A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1885 — all 16 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.

Home › Exhibition › Pulp Fiction › Read

A complete issue · 16 pages · 1885

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435

1885 · Free to read

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 2 of 16 — 2 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 3 of 16 — 3 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 4 of 16 — 4 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 5 of 16 — 5 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 6 of 16 — 6 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 7 of 16 — 7 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 8 of 16 — 8 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 9 of 16 — 9 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 10 of 16 — 10 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 11 of 16 — 11 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 12 of 16 — 12 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 13 of 16 — 13 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 14 of 16 — 14 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 15 of 16 — 15 / 16

Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 435 — page 16 of 16 — 16 / 16

About this issue

This issue contains two frontier adventure serials. "The Crooked Trail," by Col. Arthur F. Holt (author of "Black Buckskin" and "Kenneth, the Knife King"), follows a small wagon train of three prairie-schooners crossing Iowa territory bound for Eagle Bluffs. The party includes Philip Lester (leader), his daughter Louise, and young artist Guy Garland. When their guide Sam Cole disappears into a prairie chasm, a mysterious plainsman calling himself Iowa Jack arrives and offers to guide them—but Garland notices Jack wearing Sam Cole's ring, suggesting foul play. "Little Lightfoot, the Pilot of the Woods" depicts a young buckskin-clad trapper barely eighteen, armed with rifles and knives, who discovers a Sioux warrior's reflection in a spring while drinking. The ranger kills the attacker by throwing a knife into the warrior's chest.

Browse this issue page by page

Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.