A complete issue · 65 pages · 1980
Jenny, la hija del mar
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1980 — all 65 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 65 pages · 1980
This Spanish-language pulp serial, "Jenny, la hija del mar" by Joseph Berna, presents a supernatural mystery. Stuart Lowell, a San Diego art instructor, encounters a beautiful blonde woman emerging from the ocean near his coastal home. The woman, introducing herself as Jenny Cramer, reveals she is dead—brutally raped by three men who threw her from a cliff decades earlier, leaving her body in the sea. Though physically beautiful and capable of speech and movement, Jenny claims she cannot eat, drink, or feel sensation. She resolves to leave Lowell's house to pursue supernatural vengeance against her three murderers. Lowell, initially skeptical of her supernatural claims, attempts to convince her to reunite with her living parents in San Diego, but Jenny insists her true home is now the ocean. The narrative establishes a ghost-revenge plot with romantic undertones and dark crime elements characteristic of mid-century horror pulp.
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