Classics Illustrated #81 - The Odyssey by Homer - HRN 172 ~ Jack Lake Productions, Toronto. Modern saddled stitched comic book on high quality paper stock. Ten years after the fall of Troy the victorious Greek hero Odysseus has still not returned to his native Ithaka. Follow Odysseus and his men as they survive many adventures on their way back home. Once they arrived back home, they in turn had to battle suitors and disloyal servants who have taken over Odysseus’ palace, thinking he was long dead. This issue includes artwork by Harley M. Griffiths.

If you are interested in Classics Illustrated then you probably know the story already. Albert Kanter moved the focus of the Classics Illustrated operation to England in the early-1960s. The new adaptations began appearing in Europe before America and eventually new American titles ceased while new British/European titles continued.

Canada's Jack Lake Productions licensed the rights to Classics Illustrated from First Classics and began a new series of reprints in 2003 with the Classics Illustrated Junior line. Quite a few of the Juniors were reprinted as well as several of the Classics Illustrated Special Issues and the main Classics Illustrated series. The first reprint from the main series was #124 War of the Worlds which was issued in both perfect bound and hardcover formats in 2005. In late 2007, Jack Lake Productions began republishing the regular titles of Classics Illustrated on a regular basis. The new printings were in "regular" comic format, carried the full reorder list, this was the first time Classics Illustrated had been done right since the 1960s.