Brigadier Gerard and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and – by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view – English manners and attitudes. Gerard tells the stories from the point of view of an old man now living in retirement in Paris. We discover that he was born in Gascony in the early 1780s (he is 25 in "How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa"). In "How
Silver Age of Comic Books literary classics, with the likes of "Frankenstein" alongside "Don Quixote" and "Oliver Twist"; Classics Illustrated Junior reprinted comic book versions of children's classics such as "The Wizard of Oz", "Rapunzel", and "Pinocchio". During the late 1950s and the 1960s, Dell, which had published comics in 1936, offered licensed TV series comic books from "Twilight Zone" to "Top Cat", as well as numerous Walt Disney titles. Its successor, Gold Key — founded in 1962 Western Publishing started its own label rather than packaging content for business partner Dell — continued with such licensed TV series and movie adaptations, as well as