A complete issue · 88 pages · 1976
Selección Terror: Broma de Carnaval
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1976 — all 88 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 88 pages · 1976
This pulp magazine issue contains "Broma de carnaval" (Carnival Prank) by Ralph Barby, a horror-tinged mystery story set in Miami. The narrative opens with a grotesque scene—a spectral, phosphorescent face with a putrid, corpse-like appearance advancing toward a young woman aboard a small vessel, wielding a wooden mace before the lantern extinguishes in darkness. The story then shifts to introduce Red Freeman, a Harvard graduate student and university instructor: a rebellious, red-haired intellectual driving a modest vintage Volkswagen. Invited to a carnival-themed yacht party at Miami's docks, he mingles with costumed guests including a woman dressed as Joan of Arc from Connecticut. They banter about culture, ambition, and literature while searching for contacts like travel agent Melvin Sullivan and playwright Arthur Miller among the masked revelers. The narrative captures the party's atmosphere—champagne, dancing, elaborately costumed guests including Cleopatra and Florence Nightingale—before the OCR text becomes increasingly garbled.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.