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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Comics (5 books)

The best classic books from the Comics genre.

Watchmen

Watchmen

Alan Moore

4.7 (10)

Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: <br>Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

#197
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon

4.57 (6)

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

#246
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2,677
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City of Glass

City of Glass

Paul Auster

3.0 (1)

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

#419
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1,035
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Gaston, tome 1

Gaston, tome 1

André Franquin

2.67 (3)

#555
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433
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The Secret of the Swordfish

The Secret of the Swordfish

Edgar P. Jacobs

3.0 (3)

#587
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332
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