This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Black Arrow. Ruth Roche and Tom Scott adapted the novel for comic publication by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in October 1946. Arnold L. Hicke illustrated that cover that depicts the protagonist Richard Shelton and the heroine Joanna Sedley battling the forces of the sinister Sir Daniel.
Classic Comics was a series of comic book adaptations of literary classics published from 1941 until 1971. The series aimed to expose young people to classic literature through the more popular medium of a comic book. Classic Comics was first published by Elliott Publishing in 1941, but founder Albert Kanter spun off publishing to the Gilberton Company in 1942. In 1947 Classic Comics became Classics Illustrated. Kanter sold the company to the Frawley Corporation in 1967, who published the series until 1971.
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