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Classics Illustrated is an American comic book/magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Misérables, Moby-Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1969, producing 169 issues.
The Great Illustrated Classics book series offers easy-to-read adaptations of well known literary classics, featuring large print and illustrations on every other page. The series is targeted at children. There are currently 66 titles. [1] [2] The series is owned, published, and sold by Waldman Publishing Corporation under the Baronet Books ...
From issue 13 onwards, Classic Comic Store Ltd no longer published the titles (although still publishing the Classics Illustrated line), but imported the issues from Canada (where the series was already being published by Jack Lake Productions Inc.). These issues hence follow the Canadian numbering of the issues (513 onwards).
The Gilberton Company, Inc. (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l b ər t ən /) was an American publisher best known for the comic book series Classics Illustrated featuring adaptations of literary classics. Beginning life as an imprint of the Elliot Publishing Company , the company became independent in 1942, Between 1941 and 1962, domestic sales of Gilberton's ...
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Pendulum Press was a publishing company based in West Haven, Connecticut, that operated from 1970 [1] to 1994, [2] producing the bulk of their material in the 1970s. The company is most well known for their comic book adaptations of literary classics.
Editor Vincent Fago's Pendulum Now Age Classics, published by Pendulum Press, began adapting literary classics into black-and-white comics beginning in 1973. The Pendulum series was the direct antecedent to Marvel Classics Comics — in fact, the Marvel series' first 12 issues were colorized reprints of selected Pendulum comics, with new covers.
Albert Lewis Kanter (April 11, 1897 – March 17, 1973) was the creator of Classics Illustrated and Classics Illustrated Junior. Kanter began creating Classic Comics with "The Three Musketeers" in October 1941. His renditions of classic novels in comic book form popularized classic tales for a younger audience.