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Around the World in Eighty Days (Pocket Classics, C-25)
Around the World in Eighty Days - Pocket Classics, C-25 Author:Jules Verne, D'Ann Calhoun (Adaptor), Frank Redondo (Illustrator) Pocket Classics are not "comic books"...they are small "paperback" books (61 pages). They are illustrated retellings of classic stories in B&W comic book type artwork. They all use the interior B&W artwork from the 1970's Pendulum Classics series in a slightly smaller format. — One ill-fated evening at the Ref... more »orm Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-establised routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-blooded French manservant Passepartout. Travelling by train, steamship, sailing boat, sledge and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard - who believes that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England - to win the extraordinary wager« less