A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1890 — all 30 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 · 30 pages · 1890

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635

1890 · Free to read

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 2 of 30 — 2 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 3 of 30 — 3 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 4 of 30 — 4 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 5 of 30 — 5 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 6 of 30 — 6 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 7 of 30 — 7 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 8 of 30 — 8 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 9 of 30 — 9 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 10 of 30 — 10 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 11 of 30 — 11 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 12 of 30 — 12 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 13 of 30 — 13 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 14 of 30 — 14 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 15 of 30 — 15 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 16 of 30 — 16 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 17 of 30 — 17 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 18 of 30 — 18 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 19 of 30 — 19 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 20 of 30 — 20 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 21 of 30 — 21 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 22 of 30 — 22 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 23 of 30 — 23 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 24 of 30 — 24 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 25 of 30 — 25 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 26 of 30 — 26 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 27 of 30 — 27 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 28 of 30 — 28 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 29 of 30 — 29 / 30

Beadle's Dime Library No. 635 — page 30 of 30 — 30 / 30

About this issue

This issue of Beadle & Adams (December 24, 1890) features "The Ex-Buccaneer," a serial romance by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, subtitled "A Romance of Sea Hands and Shore Hearts" and companion to "The Sea Thief." The narrative follows Lieutenant Harold Hartwell, a naval officer who returns to Boston commanding a warship, only to discover his wife Celia has transformed their modest home into a grand mansion. Hartwell learns she has successfully recovered a pirate treasure he had failed to obtain—a legacy from dying merchant captain Claude Cassiday, to whom Hartwell owed his life. Celia reveals she obtained copies of Hartwell's maps, chartered a vessel under false pretenses (claiming to retrieve her lover's body), and retrieved the treasure from a burial ground. She encountered the pirate Kent, who treated her chivalrously. The substantial fortune, including gems, gold, silver, and jewelry, now fills a hidden iron-lined closet. Hartwell proposes sharing the wealth with the Cassidays; his wife adamantly refuses, threatening to expose him as a murderer to naval authorities if he persists.

Browse this issue page by page

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