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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.

Table of 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.

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Author/Creator:

Jones, William B., 1950-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Classics illustrated: a cultural history [by Jones, W.B.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Classics illustrated [by Jones, W.B.] (2nd ed.; Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2011 — ISBN 9780786438402; LCCN 2011014281; OCLC Number 712591150)

Subjects:

Classics illustrated (New York, N.Y.)

Kanter, Albert Lewis, 1897-1973

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-365) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6725 .J67 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780786488407 (electronic bk.)
0786488409 (electronic bk.)
9780786438402 [Invalid]
0786438401 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011014281 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

756484505