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Beadle's Pocket Library No. 230

1888 · Free to read

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About this issue

This cover of Beadle's Pocket Library depicts a dramatic jungle encounter: a fierce lion mauls a fallen man while his companions flee in panic behind him. The wood-engraved illustration captures the adventure-story tradition that defined 1880s dime fiction. Published weekly by Beadle and Adams at five cents, these pocket-sized magazines competed for readers through action-packed narratives and vivid cover art. The title "Three Boy Sports" signals the juvenile adventure genre that dominated the era. Beadle's Pocket Library was among the most prolific pulp series, establishing visual and narrative conventions—exotic locales, mortal peril, heroic struggle—that later influenced comic book storytelling and the superhero genre itself.

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