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Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated were comic book adaptations from classic literature, a series that Russian-born Albert Lewis Kanter (1897-1973) began in 1941 for Elliot Publishing. more...

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Introduced under the heading Classic Comics, the series started October, 1941, with a 64-page adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, followed by Ivanhoe and The Count of Monte Cristo. With the fourth issue, The Last of the Mohicans, Kanter began his own Gilberton Publications.

The first 12 issues had 64 pages, but wartime paper shortages forced Kanter to reduce each issue to 56 pages. In 1947, after the first 34 issues, Kanter changed the title from Classic Comics to Classics Illustrated, a logo with a high visibiity over the next 15 years because Kanter, unlike other comic book publishers, kept his titles in print, going back to press with occasional reprintings.

In 1948, rising paper costs resulted in a reduction from 56 pages to 48 pages. In addition to the illustrated adaptations, the books featured biographical profiles, educational fillers and house ads (but no outside advertising). This 48-page format continued throughout the run.

Between 1941 and 1962, sales totaled 200 million on Gilberton's Classics Illustrated adaptations of great works of literature, including Don Quixote, Frankenstein, Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jane Eyre, Lord Jim, Macbeth, Moby Dick, Oliver Twist, The Red Badge of Courage, Silas Marner and A Tale of Two Cities. Kanter also began several spin-offs, including The World Around Us and the 77-issue Classics Illustrated Junior with fairy tales and folk tales for younger readers.

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Classics Illustrated House of Seven Gables Hawthorne 52 $9.99 Classic Comics #20 Corsican Brothers Dumas Original Nr $22.72
Classics Illustrated"Two Years Before The Mast #25/7 $4.99 Classics Illustrated #193 The Burma Road (Malan E56) $9.99
Classics Illustrated #50 Hrn 51-Tom Sawyer-1St Edition $149.99 Tales From the Great Book #1 Vf/Nm 9.0 Eastern Color $14.50
Classics Illustrated,134 Books, 37 Originals, Low Res. $82.00 Classics Illustrated The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo 71 $9.99
Classics Illustrated "Davy Crockett" #129 Hrn #129 $8.00 Classic Comic No.75. The Lady Of The Lake. Sept 1950 $9.99
Classic Illustrated Comic No. 70 The Pilot. April 1950 $9.99 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs(Vg) 1953 $0.99
Picture Stories From the Bible:Life of Christ: 96 pages $15.00 Superior Stories #1 Vg/Fn 5.0 Invisible Man Nesbit $14.29
Classics Illustrated # 79 Hrn 78 Orginal 1951 $4.99 Lot of 16 Classics Illustrated Junior Comics 1954-1961 $49.99
Classics Illustrated #62 - Cgc 3.0 - Original edition $24.99 Classic Comics #75 Hrn 75 Black Tulip Only Edition $164.99
Classic Illustrated Comics. Count of Monte Cristo. No.3 $9.99 Classics #75-The Lady & the Lake-Sir W Scott-1st-Kiefer $35.00
Classics Illustrated"Westward Ho" #14 Hrn#53 $31.00 Classics Illustrated : Western Playhouse : Lp Record $75.00
Rare Classics Illustrated Michael Strogoff Jules Verne $9.99 Classics Illustrated 56~Toilers of Sea~Victor Hugo~1st $9.99
Classics Illustrated "Jane Eyre" #39 Hrn #71 $4.99 Classic Comics #28 Hrn 28 1946 Michael Strogoff Origina $174.99
Classics Illustrated Junior # 502 Hrn Orginal 1953 $4.99 Classics Illustrated # 128 Hrn 128 Orginal 1955 $4.99
Classics #68-Julius Caesar-1st Print! H Kiefer Art! 7.0 $40.00 Classics Illustrated #76 - Cgc 3.5 - Original ed. $24.99
Classic The Pathfinder Comic #22 June 1945 $2.99 Classics Illustrated Julius Caesar #68 Original Ci Nr $9.99
Classics Illustrated The Pioneers James F. Cooper, '47 $1.99 Classics Illustrated #44-Mysteries Of Paris-Hrn 44 $79.99
Classics World Illustrated #509 Great Scientists $4.99 Australian Classics Illustrated #41 Around The World $19.99
Classics #62-Bret Harte's Western Stories-H Kiefer Art! $20.00 Classics Illustrated Hardback: Hunchback of Notre Dame $75.00
Classic Comic No.55. Silas Marner. January 1949 $9.99 Classics Illustrated #58 - Cgc 4.5 - Original Ed Hrn 60 $24.99
Classics #71-The Man Who Laughs-V Hugo-1st P! Blum Art! $49.99 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Classics Illustrat $0.99
Classics Illustrated#49 Solid Fn+ Copy Hrn #47 (O) 7/48 $49.99
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