Oliver Twist - Pocket Classics, No C58 Author:Charles Dickens, Stella Alico (Adapter), Fred Carrillo (Illustrator) Pocket Classics are not "comic books"...they are small "paperback" books (64 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. — The story of the orphan Oliver, who r... more »uns away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters -- the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy.« less