Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.

It otherwise appeared in The Illustrated Man.

*" The Exiles " ( The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter / Spring 1950, reprinted in The Illustrated Man )

*" The Other Foot " ( New Story, March 1951, reprinted in The Illustrated Man )

*" The Visitor " ( Startling Stories, November 1948, reprinted in The Illustrated Man )

The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of " the Illustrated Man ", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.

The concept of the Illustrated Man would later be reused by Bradbury as an antagonistic character in Something Wicked This Way Comes, the tattoos coming to represent the souls of sinful victims of a mysterious carnival.

Editions published by Avon Books in 1997 and William Morrow in 2001 omit " The Fire Balloons " and add " The Illustrated Man " to the end of the book.

; " The Illustrated Man ": An overweight carnival worker is given a second chance as a Tattooed Man, and visits a strange woman who applies skin illustrations over his entire body.

Boucher and McComas gave The Illustrated Man a mixed review, faulting the framing story as " markedly ineffective " and the story selection for seeming " less than wisely chosen.

A film adaptation of The Illustrated Man was released in 1969.

A short documentary, The Making of The Illustrated Man, details the process the filmmakers used to cover Steiger's body in mock tattoos and shows actors and filmmakers preparing for the movie.

Director Zack Snyder is attached to direct, at least in part, a film adaptation of three stories from The Illustrated Man: " The Illustrated Man ", " Veldt ", and " Concrete Mixer ".

* In the 2007 film Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell's character claims to be referred to as " The Illustrated Man ".

* Numerous references to " The Illustrated Man " are made throughout an episode of Criminal Minds ( episode 20, season 5, entitled " A Thousand Words ") that deals with a serial killer whose body is covered in tattoos.

* The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, reviewed by Ted Gioia ( Conceptual Fiction )

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Of the " Significant Seven " chosen by The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History ( 1989 ), Marvel owns Spider-Man and Captain America and DC owns Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and Plastic Man.

* John Griffiths ; The Third Man, The Life and Times of William Murdoch 1754-1839 Illustrated with Black-and-white photographic plates and diagrams with Bibliography and Index ; Andre Deutsch ; 1992 ; ISBN 0-233-98778-9

The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

* 1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.

Chapman also contributed sketches to the BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and television programmes such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd ( starring Roy Hudd ), Cilla Black, This is Petula Clark, and This Is Tom Jones.

* Classics Illustrated No. 112, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( October 1953 ), is based on John C. Abbott's 1873 book ; the comic book went through nine printings between 1953 and 1969.

American marathon runner Kenny Moore, who wrote about the incident for Sports Illustrated, quoted Dutch distance runner Jos Hermens as saying, “ You give a party, and someone is killed at the party, you don't continue the party.

* In the July 10, 1920 issue of The Illustrated London News, G. K. Chesterton took issue with both pessimists ( such as Spengler ) and their optimistic critics, arguing that neither took into consideration human choice: " The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down ; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up.

Within the Esperanto culture, the annual directory is considered an important publication, second only to the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro ( Unabridged Illustrated Dictionary ).

* Ongakuzukan ( 1984 ) with the single Replica ( the international release from 1986 is titled Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, and has a different tracklisting )

When compared to the Everly Brothers, who often used the same session musicians, Orbison is credited with " a passionate intensity " that, according to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, made " his love, his life, and, indeed, the whole world to be coming to an end — not with a whimper, but an agonized, beautiful bang ".

* August 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published in the United States.

An example of this would South African Sports Illustrated model Olivia Garson who was signed to a commercial print agency in London and now is represented by Next Models worldwide.

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.

At the age of four, Nell receives a stolen copy of an interactive book, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion in which is told the tale of Princess Nell and her various friends, kin, associates, & c., originally intended for an aristocrat's child in the Neo-Victorian New Atlantis phyle.

A particularly modern example is The Holy Bible, Timothy Botts Illustrated edition ( Tyndale House Publishers 2000 ), with 360 calligraphic images as well as a calligraphy typeface.

The picture below is based on the method described by Geoffrey Budworth in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knots.

A statue of the founder of The Illustrated London News, Herbert Ingram is now located in front of The Stump ( see photograph ).

In The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy he is portrayed by Tom Finnis.

* Classics Illustrated # 83 ( 1951 ) contains an adaptation of three Mowgli stories.

His 1951 book of short stories, The Illustrated Man, includes a story called The Veldt, in which a children's nursery can create material objects based on thought.

* Illustrated 20 October 1951.

* ' Always To-Morrow ', 1951, John F Leeming, George G Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 188p, Illustrated with photographs and maps, ( Tells of the authors ' experiences as a prisoner of the Italians during WW2 )

* ' Always To-Morrow ', 1951, John F Leeming, George G Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 188p, Illustrated with photographs and maps

* Jowett, Evelyn M. An Illustrated History of Merton and Morden Published Merton and Mordon Festival of Britain Local Committee ( 1951 )

* In Ray Bradbury's " Death-by-Rain " ( 1950 ), a short story later published as " The Long Rain " in the 1951 short story collection The Illustrated Man, four astronauts search for a man-made shelter, called a " sun dome ", on the surface of Venus, as it never stops raining.

In 1951, Gilberton Publishing released a comic book adaptation of Green Mansions as issue number 90 in their Classics Illustrated series.

Commentators have noted that the film's ending closely parallels the short story " Kaleidoscope " by Ray Bradbury, from his 1951 short story collection The Illustrated Man.

* ' Always To-Morrow ', 1951, John F Leeming, George G Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 188p, Illustrated with photographs and maps, ( Tells of the authors ' experiences as a prisoner of the Italians during WW2 )

* Bain, George: Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction, Lavishly Illustrated with Line Drawings and Photographs: Dover Publishing, New York, 1973, ISBN 0-486-22923-8, which is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by William MacLellan & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, 1951.

It was originally published as " The Mad Wizards of Mars " in Maclean's on 15 September 1949 and was reprinted the following year by Fantasy Fiction, Inc. First collected in The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), it was later included in the collections R is for Rocket ( 1962 ), Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales ( 2003 ) and A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories ( 2005 ).