Fiction and governance

I was in high school when I fancied reading Classics Illustrated, an American comic book/magazine that featured adaptations of literary classics like my favorite Iliad of Homer and Ivanhoe of Walter Scott.

- Aven Piramide

Created by Albert Kanter, the series of his publication began in 1941. I bought my copies from the then Oriental Book Store for twenty centavos a copy from savings of my schooling allowance.

Today, two of the Classics Illustrated book/ magazines that I remember having read and which seem to become relevant to present times are those novels which were written by English author H. G. Wells. The drawings done on the pages of the magazines made it easy for readers like me to connect to the voluminous texts. These are The War of the Worlds, a science fiction novel about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars. The aliens possessed much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than humans. The other book, entitled Time Machine, was a post-apocalyptic science fiction about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travelled to the year 802,701.