A complete issue · 100 pages · 1876
The Masked Spy
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1876 — all 100 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 100 pages · 1876
The Masked Spy; or, The Wild Rider of the Hills by Col. Prentiss Ingraham is a Revolutionary War adventure romance set in New Jersey's Ramapo Valley. Colonel Dudley Conrad commands a cavalry squadron cut off from American forces and hemmed in by British troops. While attempting escape, they encounter a mysterious masked horseman—an expert rider mounted on a magnificent black stallion, armed with multiple pistols and a sword, his face hidden behind a fitted mask. The stranger claims to know Conrad and his men intimately, including that they conducted a raid on a British wagon-train that morning and that Captain Westley Moore, just escaped from British custody, rides with them. The masked guide leads the squadron through treacherous mountain paths to safety, promising to guide them to a ford across the river guarded by British infantry, which they intend to breach. He instructs them to seek "Eben, a negro" at a log-cabin if separated.
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