A complete issue · 32 pages · 1900
The New York Dime Library, No. 1041
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1900 — all 32 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 32 pages · 1900
Beadle's Dime Library, October 1900, No. 1041. Serial by Joseph E. Badger Jr. Gold-rush adventure set in California's 1854 mining camps. Prospectors Ned Allen, Dick Barnes, and companions rescue a man treed by a grizzly bear (dubbed "Old Eph"). The rescue is accomplished by Gospel George, a talkative but capable stranger wielding a short-handled axe. Gospel George delivers lengthy comic monologues about his talkative ex-wife and his valuable mule Roxy Ann. After dispatching the bear, George joins the prospectors' camp. A second stranger, nicknamed Sorrel-top for his red hair, reveals he has discovered gold deposits and fled his previous mining company with the secret, displaying raw gold particles as proof. The narrative involves frontier humor, physical danger, and the promise of lucrative mineral wealth.
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