Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour
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