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- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel The Last Days of Pompeii. This issue was published in March 1947 and was the first issue to be published as Classics Illustrated rather than Classic Comics. H. C. Kiefer illustrated the cover with art that depicts the residents of Pompeii fleeing the exploding Mount Vesuvius.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.063
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.063
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- This issue of Classic Comics, published by the Elliot Publishing Company in December 1941, features an adaption of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1942
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.034
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.034
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of Herman Melville’s 1846 novel, Typee. The novel was adapted for Classics Illustrated by Harry Miller and published by Gilberton in April 1947. Ezra Whiteman illustrated the cover which depicts a man in the foreground fleeing from a spear through by three Polynesian pursuers. Typee was Melville’s first novel, and is a mixture of fiction and autobiography concerning his travels in the Pacific.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.064
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.064
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of Eugène Sue’s 1842 novel The Mysteries of Paris. Gilberton Publishing, Inc. published this issue of Classics Illustrated in December 1947. H. C. Kiefer illustrated the cover that depicts the character of Rodolph carrying the orphan Fleur-de-Marie to the farm of Madame Georges.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.106
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.106
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre. Harry Glickman adapted the novel for comic publication by Gilberton in July 1947. Harley Griffiths illustrated the cover that depicts Mr. Rochester’s insane wife, Bertha Mason, interrupting a wedding ceremony.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.067
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.067
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s 1823 novel The Pioneers. Samuel Willinsky adapted the novel for comic publication by Gilberton in May 1947. Rudolph Palais illustrated the cover depicting Natty Bumppo and Benjamin Pump in the stocks, while Pump trips Hiram Doolittle. The Pioneers was published in 1823, the first book published by Cooper in his Leatherstocking Tales series, though the novel is a prequel to the series that included The Last of the Mohicans and The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.065
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.065
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of the autobiography of Florentine artist Benvenuto Cellini published in 1563. This issue was published in June 1947 but Gilberton. August Froehlich illustrated the cover that depicts Cellini standing trial in front of a jury of Catholic Cardinals. Cellini was a Renaissance artist whose autobiography describes tales of passion, violence, cunning, artistic struggles, and supernatural occurrences.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.066
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.066
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of three Edgar Allan Poe mysteries, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Adventure of Hans Pfa[a]ll, and The Fall of the House of Usher. H. C. Kiefer, August Froehlich, and Harley Griffiths illustrated the cover that depicts an image from each story; from The Pit and the Pendulum, a man tied to a table while a scythe swings above him; from The Fall of the House of Usher, a man fleeing a collapsing house, and from The Adventures of Hans Pfaall, a man flying into space in a hot air balloon.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.068
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.068
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classics Illustrated, published by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in April 1947, contains an adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The cover art by Louis Zansky depicts the crew of the Peoquod battling the white whale Moby Dick. The comic also contains the “Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- 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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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- author
- Melville, Herman
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.037
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.037
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of the 1845 novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas. Harry Miller adapted the novel for publication by Gilberton in September of 1947. Robert C. Burns illustrated the cover that depicts the four musketeers in a boat while their foe, Mordaunt, floats under the water. Twenty Years After is the sequel to Dumas’ 1844 novel, The Three Musketeers, which was adapted in Classic Comics first issue in 1941.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.069
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.069
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classics Illustrated contained an adaptation of Johann David Wyss’s 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson. Gilberton Publishing, Inc. published the issue in October of 1947. H. C. Kiefer illustrated the cover depicting William and Fritz Robinson shooting an ox with their rifles.
- 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 comic books. 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.070
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.070
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1946
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.059
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.059
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s 1869 novel Lorna Doone. Ruth Roche adapted the novel for comic publication by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in December 1946. Matt Baker illustrated the cover that depicts the characters John Ridd and Lorna Doone climbing the cliff next to a waterfall.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1946
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.060
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.060
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel The Mysterious Island. Manning L. Stokes adapted the novel for the comic book published by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in February 1947. Robert Hayward Webb and David Heames illustrated the cover art that depicts the protagonists of the novel on their boat, Bonadventure, circling the island while smoke begins to plume from the volcano.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.062
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.062
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Ruth Roche adapted the novel for the comic’s publication by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in December 1945. Robert Webb and Ann Brewster illustrated the issue’s cover art that depicts an oversized Frankenstein’s monster holding a tree and towering over a small town. Shelley originally published the novel anonymously in 1818, before publishing a revised edition under her own name in 1823.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1945
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.056
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.056
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Charles Dicken’s novel Oliver Twist, published by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in July 1945. Georgina Campbell adapted the novel, and Arnold Hicks illustrated the cover art. The cover depicts the titular character Oliver surrounded by the faces of the book’s other characters.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1945
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.053
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.053
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries, A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles. H. C. Kiefer illustrated the cover that depicts Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe, a slobbering hound, and a finger writing the word “Rache” in blood. A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles were two of Doyle’s four Sherlock Holmes’ novels, published in 1887 and 1901.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.061
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.061
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1946
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.057
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.057
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pathfinder, published by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in October 1944. Evelyn Goodman adapted the novel, and Louis Zansky composed the cover art. The cover depicts the hero Natty Bumppo above the battling French, British and Huron. The Pathfinder was published in 1840 as the penultimate book in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales series. This comic continued the adventures of Natty Bumppo featured in other Classic Comics issues such as The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1944
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.052
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.052
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Charles Kingsley’s novel Westward Ho! that was published by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in September 1943. The cover art by Allen Simon depicts a fight between the British protagonist Amyas Leigh and his shipmate’s again Spanish seamen. The novel was adapted as a comic book by Dan Kushner. The issue also contained a biography of Kingsley, as well as the stories: “The Railway Train” by Emily Dickinson, “Victory March” by Evelyn Goodman, and “The Cost of Carelessness” by David Butler.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1942
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.044
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.044
- accession number
- 2013.0086
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