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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. Following the series' demise, various companies reprinted ...
Classics Illustrated Junior is a comic book series of seventy-seven fairy and folk tale, myth and legend comic book adaptations created by Albert Lewis Kanter as a ...
Gilberton acquired not only the company name but also the 30 pages drawn for Red Badge of Courage, which they published in the 98th issue of Classics Illustrated. [5] In addition to Classics Illustrated, Gilberton published its spin-offs Classics Illustrated Junior (1953–1962), Classics Illustrated Special Issue (1955–1964), and The World ...
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]
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.
The United States publisher of Classics Illustrated, Gilberton, marketed their CI series as educational in nature and felt that releasing Dr. No would be a poor marketing fit. So the rights were sold to Independent News, then-owners of DC Comics , who published the comic as issue 43 of the Showcase anthology series, in January 1963.
UK issues of Classics Illustrated that were never published in the United States include Aeneid, The Argonauts, The Gorilla Hunters and Sail with the Devil. Mick Anglo adapted three stories — by Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, and Wilkie Collins — for the T & P Classics Illustrated. The British Classics Illustrated adaptation of the James ...
Titles 0–9 A Alter Ego (4 issues) American Flagg! (50 issues, plus special, then 12 issue series) Alien Bones (graphic novel, 2019) B Badger (70 issues, plus a 4 issue limited series and two graphic novels) Beowulf (graphic novel, 1984) Betty Boop's Big Break (graphic novel, 1990) C Corum (Michael Moorcock adaptation): The Chronicles of Corum (12 issues, 1987-1988) The Bull and the Spear (4 ...