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Seduction Productions
Classics Illustrated (Silas Marner) 55
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COMIC DETAILS
Comic Description:
Classics Illustrated #55 Universal
Grade:
7.5
Page Quality:
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #:
0330307014
Owner:
GAM
SET DETAILS
Winning Set:
Seduction Productions
Date Added:
4/29/2018
Research:
See CGC's Census Report for this Comic
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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