Ben Hur

A single prestige-format comic from Academic Industries, this 1984 adaptation distills the epic sweep of Lew Wallace's novel and its classic film incarnations into a visually dense, one-issue graphic novel. The project is most notable for its painted art, which aims to capture the scale of the chariot race and Roman-era Judea in a format that was uncommon for its time. Though it stands alone as a brief publishing experiment, it represents an ambitious attempt to bring a literary and cinematic blockbuster to the comics medium.