A complete issue · 88 pages · 1976
Silver Kane: El otro lado del Infierno
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 Spanish pulp adventure cover depicts a half-clad warrior woman wielding a curved blade against armored adversaries in a hellish landscape. The composition—dynamic figure in orange and blue against dystopian architecture—typifies 1970s sword-and-sorcery illustration, a subgenre that pulp magazines inherited from earlier weird fiction traditions. The lurid painted cover, rendered in yellows and blacks, advertises the story through bold typography and violent action, selling adventure through visual spectacle. By the mid-1970s, such magazines continued the pulp tradition of cheap, disposable entertainment that had spawned science fiction and heroic fantasy as distinct genres in earlier decades.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.