Agreed. In middle school, my English teacher had a box of compic book (!!) adaptations of classic literature -- Murders in the Rue Morgue, etc. I had already r

Agreed. In middle school, my English teacher had a box of compic book (!!) adaptations of classic literature -- Murders in the Rue Morgue, etc. I had already read or heard of many of the authors, but this was a quick introduction / plot-overview of many of the rest of them. It was like finding a secret stash of new jelly bean flavors: Not the best thing, but damn if they weren't enjoyable to devour. Best of all, they gave me enough plot-summary of some of them (Fall of the House of Usher) that one can recognize references to them in OTHER works (such as Bradbury's works) which I might not previously have understood. I've re-read several of those classics later, but I still have fond memories of that box of comic books.