pulps
Brigitte en Acción
This Spanish-language pulp magazine contains two narratives. "El emperador del Cielo y la Tierra" (vols. 1-2) by Lou Carrigan opens with a first-person narrator claiming the identity of Charlemagne, offering historical digression on the emperor's birth year and marriages while questioning whether such self-imagination is problematic. The primary story, "Brigitte en acción" ("Brigitte in Action"), is a spy thriller. In the "Preludio en la niebla" section, four British MI6 agents await a flight arrival at London's Heathrow Airport. When a passenger from Vienna disembarks escorted by agents Bradford and Payne, a BEA maintenance van suddenly attacks. A firefight erupts; the attackers escape via helicopter after casualties on both sides. One attacker is identified as CIA agent Walter Summers; another as Ivo Pavelic. The narrative then shifts to New York, introducing Brigitte Montfort, a wealthy, beautiful woman living in the Crystal Building on Fifth Avenue. Parking attendants admire her red Thunderbird and generous tips, unaware she is the secret agent "Baby." A visitor named Minello awaits her upstairs, apparently harboring romantic feelings.