A complete issue · 71 pages · 1979
Selección Terror: La noche de los zombies
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1979 — all 71 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 71 pages · 1979
A Spanish pulp magazine cover by Ralph Barby featuring a vampire in formal attire looming over an unconscious woman in a nightgown. The dramatic composition uses vivid oranges and deep blues to create atmospheric dread. The title treatment employs bold, angular lettering typical of 1970s horror publishing. This cover exemplifies the commercial illustration style that dominated Spanish-language genre magazines of the period, when pulp fiction maintained strong readership across Latin America and Spain. The imagery traffics in Gothic horror conventions inherited from earlier pulp traditions—the predatory supernatural figure, the vulnerable female victim, the theatrical staging—rendered in the painterly realism that defined mid-century magazine art.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.