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Critics have already begun carping that The Illustrated 9/11 Report, a comic-book condensation of the best-selling document, created by two septuagenarian alumni of the Richie Rich comics, risks trivializing the disaster. But Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón are unfailingly true to the original, whose readability and potboiler pacing are key to its public influence.

—The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Hill and Wang; September 4 ($30).

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