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>Google image search "Illustrated platinum edition"
>Pick one book cover

Holy kek I can't believe these exist

>> No.8841173

>>8841157
we already have a thread basically dedicated to these

>> No.8841180
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Frank Frazetta's: The Illiad

>> No.8841268

>>8841157
Holy shit I refuse to believe that this is a thing

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>> No.8842142
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Beautiful

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Best cover

>> No.8842154

>>8841157
>it's the scene when sonia tries to kill her stalker

>> No.8842170
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How to choose a cover for an "Illustrated platinum edition":

>Step 1: read the title of a classic to a functionally illiterate millennial
>Step 2: ask what's the first thing he or she thinks

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>> No.8842183
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It's exactly how I pictured it when I read it back in the day

>> No.8842543

>>8841180
The only inaccuracy is that they're not all clinging to a thousand fucking spears

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>> No.8842586

>>8842543
Or robbing bodies of their arms

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>> No.8842622

>>8842587
More like Barn Stroker, am I right?

But seriously, what the hell are these abomination? I don't mind grorious Nippon making mangas out of Mein Kampf, Das Kapital or Quantum Mechanics manuals, but this is a bit much.

>> No.8842630

>>8842142
Yep, accurately represents the famous Buddhist known as Marcus Aurelius, the Emperor of China Town.

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This is just low...

>> No.8842646

>>8842622
'Tis an evil, Jonathon Harker, that has been festering in pop culture since the ancient days of 2000. In the name of god, we have to put it out of it's misery by putting a spike in it's heart!

>> No.8842647

>>8842147
holy kek this is real?

>> No.8842650

>>8842646
>Jonathon
>god
>it's misery
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

>> No.8842655

>>8842647
This is just a ploy, to attract teenage girls into reading classics. They think it is just some celebrity's autobiography.....hehehehehehe.

>> No.8842658

>>8842577
>spoopy devil
>including his middle name
Kek

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>>8842650
We are in Tumblr, and Tumblr is not /lit/. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.

For the love of god, why did the not cast this guy in 1931 instead of Bela?

"I do not sign.....auto-graphs"

>> No.8842777

>>8842154
No, it's actually Dunia shooting Lebeziatnikov

>> No.8842790

>>8842577
HAHAHA
HOLY SHIT I NEED IT
WHO'S THE TRANSLATOR

>> No.8842806

What's the story behind these? Who's making them?

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>>8842806
Someone with very good taste

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>>8841157
Art is ripped from a card game called "Dead Last."