Mark, other friends,
Would you believe I have no idea? As a matter of fact, I
cannot recall ever seeing an edition in English or a listing
for such a one. Interestingly, I recall reading, in the early
1960s, a 1950ish Classics Illustrated edition. A couple of
notes on this: it was evidently toned down and it may have
been in Spanish, not in English. The Classics Illustrated
people used to have a Mexican (my recollection - not
neccessarily accurate) company produce their comics
transalted to Spanish and, again hoping my memory is
accurate, they produced a very scant few books which were
never published in English. I believe that the Vidocq was one
of those.
If only I had all those magnificent Classics Illustrated! A
beloved uncle, some 11 years my senior, went to Catholic
priesthood seminar in 1959. He left this then 9 year old all
his books (Verne, Dumas, Salgari,...) and all his Classics
Illustrated (over 100!), most in English, some in Spanish. My
grandmother used to give them to me 1 per week. Alas, a
combination of a younger brother's mental retardness, which
led him to wreck havock on all printed material) and my
mothers anti-comics zeal completely destroyed a collection
not only of the Classics Illustrated but of many
premierecomics of the Silver Age (all early Fantastic Four,
Avengers, XMen, Daredevil, Justice League of America, etc.),
many in editions in English and the corresponding Spanish
edition which would appear about 1-2 years after the
originals! At least I became an avid reader and learned lots
of defective English...!
Enrique F. Bird PicR>
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> Enrique,
>
> Thanks. Evidently my mind merged the two, Vidocq and
Lecoq, as I kept
> thinking Ledoc. However, by description, it was
definitely
> Vidocq I was trying to recall. Thanks. Now, is his
memoir still
> available? In English?
>
> Mark
>
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