My own bent in comics was pretty much limited to the Classics Illustrated series in the mid to late 1950s. As an adult, one of my bucket-list items was to own a copy of each title in the series, including the most expensive #43 Great Expectations, and the rare #66 The Cloister and the Hearth and #14 Westward Ho. Eventually in the 2000s, after retirement from teaching in 2002, I finished cobbling together my dream.
These comics were my first extended contacts with and experiences with literature which eventually led into reading books per se, majoring in English at university, teaching senior high English for 30 years, editing and writing textbooks, and eventually writing in prose subgenres, writing my own poetry, and publishing my own books and blogs.