A complete issue · 65 pages · 1981
El regreso de los pájaros
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1981 — 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 · 1981
El regreso de los pájaros by Lou Carrigan is a horror/crime thriller presented in two interwoven narratives. The opening sequence depicts firefighters battling a massive mansion blaze when a bloodstained, monstrous figure attacks fireman Jerry Conway with a knife, wounding him before being struck by his colleague Roscoe with a pickaxe. The main narrative follows Ernest Maxwell, a Hollywood talent scout, who seduces aspiring actress Lucille Dexter with false promises of film stardom. When Maxwell dismisses her ambitions and suggests she participate in pornographic films instead, Lucille enters his shower and repeatedly stabs him with a kitchen knife, killing him. The dual plotlines suggest a connection between the violent masked figure and Lucille's revenge, though the precise relationship remains ambiguous in the excerpt provided.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.