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Classics Illustrated 55 (O)
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Classics Illustrated 55 Universal
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Grade:
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7.5
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0330307014
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Classics Illustrated #55 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on pages 311-312.
Wertham was skeptical of the educational value of classic novels interpreted into comic books and describes Classics Illustrated #55 as follows “Elizabeth V. Brattig, a high school teacher, asked children as a class assignment to read the comic book versions of classics and then compare them with the original book. In the case of George Eliot’s Silas Marner the children laughed ‘at the droll discrepancies in the story and the incongruities in the illustrations’: ‘Silas is represented as senile and hoary, somewhat like the Ancient Mariner throughout’; ‘the flavor of George Eliot, the warm human touches, the scenes of matchless humor, had been completely ignored by the Classic Comics.”
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