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Indian comic series

***Paico Classics**,* also ***Paico Classics Illustrated***, was a series of [Indian](/source/Republic_of_India) comic books published by Pai and Company (PAICO), [Cochin](/source/Cochin) between April 1984 and December 1988. The series were the reprints of "Pendulum Illustrated Classics" ([Pendulum Press](/source/Pendulum_Press)) translated into various Indian languages (initially in [Malayalam](/source/Malayalam), later in [Tamil](/source/Tamil_language) as well as the original English). R. Gopalakrishnan, also associated with the [Poompatta](/source/Poompatta) children's magazine, was the editor of Paico Classics.

In 1985 February, prominent Malayalam authors [Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai](/source/Thakazhi_Sivasankara_Pillai), [Kamala Surayya](/source/Kamala_Surayya) and [M. T. Vasudevan Nair](/source/M._T._Vasudevan_Nair) participated in the launching function of the series.

Pai and Company republished the series in Malayalam and English during 1998–2000.

## Titles published

- *[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas](/source/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Seas)* — [Jules Verne](/source/Jules_Verne)

- *[A Christmas Carol](/source/A_Christmas_Carol)* — [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens)

- *[A Midsummer Night's Dream](/source/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[A Tale of Two Cities](/source/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities)* — [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens)

- *[As You Like It](/source/As_You_Like_It)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[Ben-Hur](/source/Ben-Hur%3A_A_Tale_of_the_Christ)* — [Lew Wallace](/source/Lew_Wallace)

- *[Black Beauty](/source/Black_Beauty)* — [Anna Sewell](/source/Anna_Sewell)

- *[Crime and Punishment](/source/Crime_and_Punishment)* — [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](/source/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky)

- *[Don Quixote](/source/Don_Quixote)* — [Miguel de Cervantes](/source/Miguel_de_Cervantes)

- *[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde](/source/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde)* — [Robert Louis Stevenson](/source/Robert_Louis_Stevenson)

- *[Dracula](/source/Dracula)* — [Bram Stoker](/source/Bram_Stoker)

- *[Food of the Gods](/source/The_Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_Came_to_Earth)* — [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells)

- *[Frankenstein](/source/Frankenstein)* — [Mary Shelley](/source/Mary_Shelley)

- *[Great Expectations](/source/Great_Expectations)* — [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens)

- *[Gulliver's Travels](/source/Gulliver's_Travels)* — [Jonathan Swift](/source/Jonathan_Swift)

- *[Hamlet](/source/Hamlet)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[Huckleberry Finn](/source/Huckleberry_Finn)* — [Samuel L. Clemens](/source/Samuel_L._Clemens) ([Mark Twain](/source/Mark_Twain))

- *[Iliad](/source/Iliad)* — [Homer](/source/Homer)

- *[Ivanhoe](/source/Ivanhoe)* — [Walter Scott](/source/Walter_Scott)

- *[Julius Caesar](/source/Julius_Caesar_(play))* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[Kidnapped](/source/Kidnapped_(novel))* — [R L Stevenson](/source/R_L_Stevenson)

- *[King Lear](/source/King_Lear)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[Macbeth](/source/Macbeth)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[Merchant of Venice](/source/Merchant_of_Venice)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[Moby Dick](/source/Moby_Dick)* — [Herman Melville](/source/Herman_Melville)

- *[Oliver Twist](/source/Oliver_Twist)* — [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens)

- *[Othello](/source/Othello)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[Pride and Prejudice](/source/Pride_and_Prejudice)* — [Jane Austen](/source/Jane_Austen)

- *[Robinson Crusoe](/source/Robinson_Crusoe)* — [Daniel Defoe](/source/Daniel_Defoe)

- *[Romeo and Juliet](/source/Romeo_and_Juliet)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[The Sea-Wolf](/source/The_Sea-Wolf)* — [Jack London](/source/Jack_London)

- [*Stories of O. Henry*](/source/O._Henry) — [William Sidney Porter](/source/William_Sidney_Porter) ([O. Henry](/source/O._Henry))

- *[Taming of the Shrew](/source/Taming_of_the_Shrew)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](/source/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes)* — [Arthur Conan Doyle](/source/Arthur_Conan_Doyle)

- *[The Hound of the Baskervilles](/source/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles)* — [Arthur Conan Doyle](/source/Arthur_Conan_Doyle)

- *[The Hunchback of Notre Dame](/source/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame)* — [Victor Hugo](/source/Victor_Hugo)

- *[The Invisible Man](/source/The_Invisible_Man)* — [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells)

- *[The Man in the Iron Mask](/source/The_Vicomte_of_Bragelonne%3A_Ten_Years_Later#Part_Three:_The_Man_in_the_Iron_Mask_(Chapters_181–269))* — [Alexandre Dumas](/source/Alexandre_Dumas)

- *[The Mysterious Island](/source/The_Mysterious_Island)* — [Jules Verne](/source/Jules_Verne)

- *[The Odyssey](/source/The_Odyssey)* — [Homer](/source/Homer)

- *[The Prince and the Pauper](/source/The_Prince_and_the_Pauper)* — [Samuel L. Clemens](/source/Samuel_L._Clemens) ([Mark Twain](/source/Mark_Twain))

- *[The Prisoner of Zenda](/source/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda)* — [Anthony Hope](/source/Anthony_Hope)

- *[The Return of the Native](/source/The_Return_of_the_Native)* — [Thomas Hardy](/source/Thomas_Hardy)

- *[The Scarlet Pimpernel](/source/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel)* — [Baroness Orczy](/source/Baroness_Orczy)

- *[The Tempest](/source/The_Tempest)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

- *[The Three Musketeers](/source/The_Three_Musketeers)* — [Alexandre Dumas](/source/Alexandre_Dumas)

- *[The War of the Worlds](/source/The_War_of_the_Worlds)* — [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells)

- *[The Time Machine](/source/The_Time_Machine)* — [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells)

- *[Tom Sawyer](/source/Tom_Sawyer)* — [Samuel L. Clemens](/source/Samuel_L._Clemens) ([Mark Twain](/source/Mark_Twain))

- *[Treasure Island](/source/Treasure_Island)* — [Robert Louis Stevenson](/source/Robert_Louis_Stevenson)

- *[Twelfth Night](/source/Twelfth_Night)* — [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)

## See also

- [Anant Pai](/source/Anant_Pai)

- *[Les Grands Classiques de la littérature en bande dessinée](/source/Les_Grands_Classiques_de_la_litt%C3%A9rature_en_bande_dessin%C3%A9e)*

## External links

- Paico has started re-printing their original publications and is available for purchase at: [http://ocomics.com](http://ocomics.com)

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