This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Marco Polo’s travelogue, The Adventures of Marco Polo. Emmanuel Demby adapted Polo’s work for publication by the GIlberton Company, Inc. in April 1946. Homer Fleming illustrated the cover art of the issue that depicts Marco Polo on horseback holding a sack and surrounded by sword-wielding horseman.
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.