Ya got me there. Comic books as a ‘gateway drug’ to actual literature. Hadn’t thought of that.
Seems promising...
I had a whole set of “Illustrated Classics” similar to that when I was a kid. The whole book wasn’t comics, just an illustration every few pages with a condensed version of the novel. It was great because, as a kid, I never would have had the patience to get through Moby Dick, but with those I could still enjoy a lot of classic stories at a young age.