A complete issue · 32 pages · 1886
Beadle's Pocket Library No. 133
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1886 — 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 · 1886
This 1886 serial romance by Frank Dumont, subtitled "The Wolves of Satan's Gap," unfolds in Helena, Montana during the silver rush. The story opens in a gambling saloon where Fred Gordon, a desperate young man, exposes a faro dealer's cheating scheme using a waxed ace card and recovers stolen gold-dust at gunpoint. Gordon's antagonist, Donald Stone—a vindictive rival from St. Louis—has engineered Gordon's ruin through gambling, seeking revenge over their shared past love, Edwina Dares. Stone had previously poisoned Edwina with toxin-laced flowers before their wedding; her body mysteriously vanished from the family vault. When Edwina suddenly appears alive in the saloon, Stone escalates toward violence, but sympathetic miners offer Gordon protection. The narrative combines frontier justice, romantic melodrama, and criminal conspiracy.
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