By looking at the pictures and reading sporadically a title or an exclamation, a child can follow to some extent the plot of one of these comic book versions of "great stories," or at least what the editor and the child think the plot is.
14-yr-old boy in 8th year at school w/ 2nd-grade reading level says that he has read the "classics" version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: "It is called The Mad Doctor. He makes medicine. He drinks it and turns into a beast. He kills a little girl. The cops chase him. Then he changes into a man. He comes to a famous home and falls in love with a girl. He keeps changing. Finally he gets shot. While dying he changes back to a human being. I like when he comes to the little girl and hits her with a cane."