Classics Illustrated #14 [HRN 53]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Westward Ho!" is a swashbuckling adventure from Classics Illustrated #14 (1948), blending romance and daring exploits in a tale of sea-faring ambition and justice. Written by Daniel Kushner and Charles Kingsley, and illustrated with bold energy by Allen Simon—both inks and pencils—this issue follows Amyas as he journeys from his coastal town to the West Indies, driven by love and a quest for redemption. With a cover by Allen Simon capturing the drama in striking detail, it’s a timeless story of courage, loss, and the high seas, all in a 10-cent comic from 1948.
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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.
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