PAICO Classics
Paico Classics (Paico Classics: Illustrated Classic Edition) was a series of Indian comic books co-published by Pai and Company and Pendulum Press in the mid-1980s. Paico Classics were the reprints of "Pendulum Illustrated Classics" translated into various Indian languages (as well as the original English). R Gopalakrishnan was editor of PAICO edition; in 1985 February Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Kamala Das and M T Vasudevan Nair participated in the launching function of PAICO compound Kochi city. At the first they had published Malayalam edition. Later English and Tamil editions are also published.
The titles were published between April 1984 and December 1988. Although the comics were printed in black-and-white they became quite popular among readers. Pai and Company republished the series in Malayalam and English during 1998-2000.
Titles published
- 20000 Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne
- A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare
- A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
- As You Like It — William Shakespeare
- Ben-Hur — Lew Wallace
- Black Beauty — Anna Sewell
- Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Don Quixote — Cervantes
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dracula — Bram Stoker
- Food of the Gods — H. G. Wells
- Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
- Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
- Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift
- Hamlet — William Shakespeare
- Huckleberry Finn — Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Iliad — Homer
- Ivanhoe — Walter Scott
- Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
- Kidnapped — R L Stevenson
- King Lear — William Shakespeare
- Macbeth — William Shakespeare
- Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare
- Moby Dick — Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
- Othello — William Shakespeare
- Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
- Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
- Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
- The Sea-Wolf — Jack London
- Stories of O. Henry — William Sidney Porter (O. Henry)
- Taming of the Shrew — William Shakespeare
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Victor Hugo
- The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells
- The Man in the Iron Mask — Alexandre Dumas
- The Mysterious Island — Jules Verne
- The Odyssey — Homer
- The Prince and the Pauper — Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- The Prisoner of Zenda — Anthony Hope
- The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy
- The Scarlet Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy
- The Tempest — William Shakespeare
- The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
- The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
- The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
- Tom Sawyer — Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Twelfth Night — William Shakespeare