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For Classic Comics, he illustrated the second cover for The Prince and the Pauper, issue #29, cover for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, issue #33, and the first Classics Illustrated issue The Last Days of Pompeii, issue #35. For Classics Illustrated, he drew the majority of at least 20 issues from the series in the period 1947–1953.
Papercutz has also published new volumes of the Golden Age-era comics series Classics Illustrated and Tales from the Crypt. In recent years they have begun publishing English translations of European (mostly Franco-Belgian ) all-ages comics, including The Smurfs and Asterix .
By the early 1970s, Classics Illustrated and Junior had been discontinued, although the Classics Illustrated branding would be used on a number of made-for-television films in the period 1978–1982, including The Time Machine, Donner Pass: The Road to Survival, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Since the series' demise, various companies have ...
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.
In September of 2008, Classic Comic Store Ltd., based in the UK, under license by Jack Lake Productions Inc. began publishing both the original Gilberton Classics Illustrated regular and Junior lines for distribution in the UK, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The issue number sequence is different from the original ...
Blum illustration from Classics Illustrated issue 87, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Alexander Anthony Blum (February 7, 1889 – September 1969) [1] was a Hungarian-American comic book artist best remembered for his contributions in the 1940s and 1950s to the long-running comic book series Classics Illustrated.
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. As the US ...