Arabian Nights (comics)
"Arabian Nights" comics are comic book stories adapted and inspired by the "One Thousand and One Nights". The collection of Middle Eastern folk tales has inspired filmmakers ("The Thief of Baghdad", all the various versions of Sindbad, Aladdin, etc.), playwrights (Edward Knoblock's "Kismet", James Elroy Flecker's "Hassan") and popular novelists (John Barth, A. S. Byatt – even Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz), and comics versions proliferate as well. Generally, the comic adaptations are meant to bring classic literature and mythology to a younger audience. Synopsis. The story is a frame narrative, told by Scheherazade. Shahryar, the  Persian Sassanid King of kings, was infamous for beheading his wives due to his suspicions of faithlessness. After running out of women to marry and behead, the King goes to his vizier, who reluctantly offers his daughter, Scheherazade. She uses her dazzling tales to keep the interest of the King as the night begins until the day comes, so that she will not be beheaded overnight. Eventually, because of her tales, the King decides to spare her.