| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xii, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-365) and index. |
| Summary |
"This work gives attention to the evolving mission of Classics Illustrated to bring serious literature to popular culture; the publication's ability to stand up to the anti-comics hysteria of the early 1950s; the growth of subsidiary educational series encompassing folklore, mythology, history, and science; and the unsuccessful attempts to revive the series in the 1990s"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Good stories" -- Albert Kanter's dream -- Of Musketeers and Mohicans: The jacquet shop -- Louis Zansky: the painter's touch -- Eccentricity abounding: the war years -- Arnold Lorne Hicks: transitional figure -- Enter Iger: the fiction house artists -- Henry Carl Kiefer and the classics house style -- Alex A. Blum: "a prince of a man" -- A "newer, truer name": the late forties -- Blood, sweat, and Rudy Palais -- Painted covers and an extra nickel: The early fifties -- Maurice del Bourgo: a "man's world artist" -- Canonical matters and classical curiosities -- Lou Cameron: "if John Wayne had drawn comic books" -- Norman Nodel: "a certain integrity" -- From the crypt to the classics: the EC era -- George Evans, Reed Crandall, and the tradition of EC realism -- Roberta the conqueror -- High tide and greenbacks: the late fifties -- Gerald McCann: the colors of the sky -- Gray Morrow: "real people and real events" -- "Roberta's reforms": the early sixties -- William E. Kanter: about a son -- Five little series and how they grew: picture progress; classics illustrated junior; classics illustrated special issues; the world around us; the best from boys' life comics -- "Frawley's folly"" the twin circle era (1967-1971) -- Classics abroad: the worldwide yellow banner -- The wilderness years: the seventies and eighties -- Great expectations: first publishing's graphic novels -- "Your doorway to the classics": Acclaim's study guides -- Restoration: Jack Lake productions and papercutz -- Classics collected: notes on the evolution of a pastime and a passion -- Classical coda. |
| Summary |
This volume tells the story of Classics Illustrated. Classics Illustrated was a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. The series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. The author examines the cultural significance of the most successful publication of its kind, and in the context of the times in which it was published. Attention is given to the evolving mission of Classics Illustrated to bring serious literature to popular culture; the publication's ability to stand up to the anti-comics hysteria of the early 1950s; the growth of subsidiary educational series encompassing folklore, mythology, history, and science; and the unsuccessful attempts to revive the series in the 1990s. The careers and contributions of each of the artists are covered, and the text is supplemented by quotations from exclusive interviews and correspondence with such illustrators as George Evans, Gray Morrow, Lou Cameron, Norman Nodel and Rudolph Palais. Appendices provide artist attributions and the contents of each issue in every Classics Illustrated-related series. More than 200 illustrations offer a generous sample of what drew millions of readers to "the World's Finest Juvenile Publication." |
| Subject |
Classics illustrated (New York, N.Y.)
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Kanter, Albert Lewis, 1897-1973.
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| ISBN |
9780786438402 illustrated case binding alkaline paper |
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0786438401 illustrated case binding alkaline paper |
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