Designed for Delinquency
Parade of Pleasure
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Classics Illustrated 128
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Grade:
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7.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0219230005
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Classics Illustrated #128 featuring Macbeth is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) in the text on page 102.
Wagner believed that educational comics, such as Classics Illustrated, had done little to improve the comic genre and often overemphasized violence. For example, on page 102, he described the stories of Hamlet and Macbeth as depicted in Classics Illustrated as follows “In Hamlet, for instance, I noticed that of the forty-four pages nine were of the ghost scene, while eight more were of direct physical combat (Hamlet himself goes about most of the time with a drawn sword). Six pictures show Ophelia slowly drowning. Hamlet, however did not seem to be, in text, quite so strictly corrected as Macbeth, the ‘classic’ (in all senses) comic of which Punch made so much”.
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