A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1884 — all 32 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 · 32 pages · 1884

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276

1884 · Free to read

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 2 of 32 — 2 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 3 of 32 — 3 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 4 of 32 — 4 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 5 of 32 — 5 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 6 of 32 — 6 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 7 of 32 — 7 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 8 of 32 — 8 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 9 of 32 — 9 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 10 of 32 — 10 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 11 of 32 — 11 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 12 of 32 — 12 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 13 of 32 — 13 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 14 of 32 — 14 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 15 of 32 — 15 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 16 of 32 — 16 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 17 of 32 — 17 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 18 of 32 — 18 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 19 of 32 — 19 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 20 of 32 — 20 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 21 of 32 — 21 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 22 of 32 — 22 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 23 of 32 — 23 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 24 of 32 — 24 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 25 of 32 — 25 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 26 of 32 — 26 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 27 of 32 — 27 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 28 of 32 — 28 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 29 of 32 — 29 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 30 of 32 — 30 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 31 of 32 — 31 / 32

Beadle's Dime Library, No. 276 — page 32 of 32 — 32 / 32

About this issue

This issue of Beadle's Dime Novels (No. 276, February 6, 1884) contains "Texas Chick, The Southwest Detective; or, Tiger-Lily, the Vulture Queen," by Captain Mark Wilton. The serial opens with a wagon train of pioneers crossing the Texas prairie. A young woman, Miss Riverton, travels with the train alongside a youth named Neal, who is helping her pursue a vendetta against someone who has wronged her. Despite premonitions of danger, the camp is attacked at night by Comanche warriors led by a white man seeking Miss Riverton. Neal is killed; she escapes into the prairie. A stranger discovers the massacre and swears vengeance, identifying himself as Karl Belvin, Neal's father. The narrative then shifts to Walter Latimer, a Virginian traveling to visit his uncle at Deerfoot Ranch, who encounters a ragged frontiersman calling himself "the Texas Chick," a self-described detective and nomadic Texan. As they ride together toward the ranch, armed men suddenly ambush them on the trail.

Browse this issue page by page

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