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nspired by the 1962 Cinemascope epic that he saw as a lad, writer/artist Frank Miller would go on to create the five-issue graphic novel , a wildly stylized, heavily fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae. In his telling, full of indelible images and gruesome violence, the historical events of brave King Leonidas and his 15-score soldiers’ resistance against an innumerable horde are elevated to nigh-mythological status.
