Classics Illustrated #14 [HRN 53] - Westward Ho!

([November 1948])

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Westward Ho! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 47 pages (report information)

Script

Daniel Kushner (signed as Daniel Kushner) (adaptation); Charles Kingsley (original story)

Pencils

Allen Simon (signed)

Inks

Allen Simon

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On a summer afternoon in fifteen seventy-five, a tall, fair-haired boy of fifteen lingers along Bideford Quay on his way home from school, drawn by the lure of the sea and ships and sailors...

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Amyas Leigh; Frank Leigh; Captain John Oxenham; Carlotta Oxenham [Ayacanora]; Rose Salterne; Rose's suitors; Sir Richard Grenville; Salvation Yeo; Will Cary; Don Guzman Maria Magdalena Sotomayor de Soto

Synopsis

Amyas longs to go to sea, and also longs to marry Rose, as do many others. Amyas is successful as a swashbuckler, and captures a Spanish officer who is paroled in Amyas's town to await ransom. He woos Rose, who agrees to accompany him back to Spain. Amyas pursues to the West Indies only to find that Rose is happy, but he rescues the daughter of an old friend who had been murdered by the Spanish Inquisition. When the Inquisition murders Rose he hunts Guzman to death in the Battle of the Spanish Armada. Amyas loses his sight but gains the hand of Carlotta.

Reprints

• from Classic Comics (Gilberton, 1941 series) #14 - Westward Ho! (September 1943) [9 pages cut: 9,52-56. 21-22,23-25 combined]
• in Illustrerade klassiker (Illustrerade klassiker, 1956 series) #109 - Skepp ohoj! (1960)
• in Illustrerede Klassikere (I.K. [Illustrerede klassikere], 1956 series) #109 - Med kurs mod vest (1960)
• in Kuvitettuja Klassikkoja (Kuvajulkaisut, 1956 series) #68 - Länttä kohti (1960)
• in Illustrerte Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #96 - På tokt mot vest ([1960])
which is reprinted
• in Illustrerte Klassikere (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2006 series) #24 ([mai] 2010)

Keywords

Blindness; religious persecution; Spanish Armada

Life of Charles Kingsley (Table of Contents: 3)

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Charles Kingsley, the author of "Westward Ho!," was a famous English clergyman.

Genre

non-fiction; biography

Characters

Charles Kingsley

Keywords

Educational; fact

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