By the way, did anyone else manage to get their hands on a copy of the
Marvel Illustrated version of The Picture of Dorian Gray? I may have bought the last new copy at Amazon. It appears that all the remaining copies are used. Well, let me tell you, I was blown away by this adaptation by Roy Thomas (author), Sebastian Fiumara (illustrator), and Gerald Parel (cover art). I remember reading Classics Illustrated when I was a kid, and I don't recall any of them being as faithful to the original author's intent as this was to Oscar Wilde's. It was about as close to reading the actual book as you can get without actually reading the book. One line did stand out, however, that wasn't in the original versions. In a crowd scene, one unnamed spectator made the chance remark, "All art is quite useless." Of course, that's from Oscar Wilde's preface to the 1891 version. I guess Roy Thomas couldn't resist inserting that wonderful and somewhat enigmatic remark into the body of the work itself.