Mental Floss

101 MASTERPIECES

Alamy

A 14-year-old comic book fan from New Jersey, and the dream he wouldn't let die.

Camille Dodero, the mag




PECK: AF ARCHIVE/ALAMY ; WHALE: STEPHEN FRINK COLLECTION/ALAMY

Herman Melville had everything a young author could dream of. Then he wrote Moby-Dick and ruined everything.

Lucas Reilly