Synopsis
King Louis XIV of France has died and his grandson has inherited the throne at the age of five. There were two who claimed regency of the young king, Duc Philippe d'Orleans and Duc de Maine, with Philippe ultimately seizing power. The Duchess de Maine engages the services of the bold Raoul d'Harmental to carry out a plan to kidnap Philippe and have him imprisoned in Spain, leaving the regency, by proxy, to Duc de Maine. A vast conspiracy ensues to carry out the plan, but the conspirators are betrayed and the plan discovered, with all the immediate conspirators caught.
Notes
HRN 156. Reprinted in July 1964 [HRN 167]; October 1967 [HRN 166]. Above information from Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History by William B. Jones, Jr., 2nd edition.
Indexed with information supplied by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. Exists in an HRN 167 edition. In this edition the last two text articles are entitled "The Grand Monarch" and "The Fortress at Eagle's Nest."
Reprinted in
- Illustrerade klassiker #116
- Illustrierte Klassiker [Classics Illustrated] #90
- Illustrerte Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] #103
- Illustrated Classics #111
- Kuvitettuja Klassikkoja #75
- Illustrerede Klassikere #116
Credits
- Pencils
- Gerald McCann
- Inks
- Gerald McCann
- Painting
- Gerald McCann
- Editor
- Roberta Strauss
- Adaptation
- Alfred Sundel
- Art director
- L. B. Cole
- Original story
- Alexandre Dumas
- Production director
- Meyer Kaplan
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