Classic Comics/Classics Illustrated. #101 - #169- Elliot Publishing Company [Complete series] ADDED Classics Illustrated 160 The Food of the Gods [Fixed] Courtesy of Jens Terje.

Classics Illustrated is an American comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.  Created Classic Comics for
 Elliot Publishing Company in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues.
The series name-changed in March 1947 to Classics Illustrated .

Following the series' demise, various companies reprinted its titles. This series is different from the Great Illustrated Classics, which is an adaptation of the classics for young readers that includes illustrations, but is not in the comic book form.

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TITLES:

Classics Illustrated #101 William Tell

Classics Illustrated #102 The White Company

Classics Illustrated #103 Men Against The Sea

Classics Illustrated #104 Bring 'Em Back Alive

Classics Illustrated #105 From the Earth to the Moon

Classics Illustrated #106 Buffalo Bill

Classics Illustrated #107 King of the Khyber Rifles

Classics Illustrated #108 Knights Of Round Table

Classics Illustrated #109 Pitcairn's Island

Classics Illustrated #110 A Study in Scarlet

Classics Illustrated #111 The Talisman

Classics Illustrated #112 The Adventures of Kit Carson

Classics Illustrated #113 The 045 Guardsmen

Classics Illustrated #114 The Red Rover

Classics Illustrated #115 How I Found Livingstone

Classics Illustrated #116 The Bottle Imp

Classics Illustrated #117 Captains Courageous

Classics Illustrated #118 Rob Roy

Classics Illustrated #119 Soldiers of Fortune

Classics Illustrated #120 The Hurricane

Classics Illustrated #121 Wild Bill Hickock

Classics Illustrated #122 The Mutineers

Classics Illustrated #123 Fang and Claw.

Classics Illustrated #124 War of the Worlds

Classics Illustrated #125 The Ox-Bow Incident

Classics Illustrated #126 The Downfall

Classics Illustrated #127 The King of the Mountains

Classics Illustrated #128 Macbeth

Classics Illustrated #129 Davy Crockett

Classics Illustrated #130 Caesar's Conquests

Classics Illustrated #131 The Covered Wagon

Classics Illustrated #132 The Dark Frigate

Classics Illustrated #133 The Time Machine

Classics Illustrated #134 Romeo and Juliet

Classics Illustrated #135 Waterloo

Classics Illustrated #136 Lord Jim

Classics Illustrated #137 The Little Savage

Classics Illustrated #138 Journey to the Center of the Earth

Classics Illustrated #139 In the Reign of Terror

Classics Illustrated #140 On Jungle Trails

Classics Illustrated #141 Castle Dangerous.

Classics Illustrated #142 Abraham Lincoln

Classics Illustrated #143 Kim

Classics Illustrated #144 First Men in the Moon

Classics Illustrated #145 The Crisis

Classics Illustrated #146 With Fire & Sword

Classics Illustrated #147 Ben Hur

Classics Illustrated #148 The Buccaneers

Classics Illustrated #149 Off On A Comet

Classics Illustrated #150 The Virginian

Classics Illustrated #151 Won by the Sword

Classics Illustrated #152 Wild Animals I Have Known

Classics Illustrated #153 The Invisible Man

Classics Illustrated #154 Conspiracy of Pontiac

Classics Illustrated #155 Lion of the North.

Classics Illustrated #156 The Conquest of Mexico

Classics Illustrated #157 Lives of the Hunter

Classics Illustrated #158 The Conspirators

Classics Illustrated #159 The Octopus

Classics Illustrated #160 Food of the Gods

Classics Illustrated #161 Cleopatra

Classics Illustrated #162 Robur The Conqueror

Classics Illustrated #163 Master of the World

Classics Illustrated #164 The Cossack Chief

Classics Illustrated #165 The Queen's Necklace

Classics Illustrated #166 Tigers and Traitors

Classics Illustrated #167 Faust

Classics Illustrated #168 In Freedom's Cause

Classics Illustrated #169 Negro Americans.

 #117 Captains Courageous complete edition with pg 28

#106 Buffalo Bill pg 39 fixed 

Very grateful to Jens Terje  for providing the pages that complete this series

Classic Comics/Classics Illustrated. #001 - #050 - Elliot Publishing Company [Complete Series]

Classics Illustrated is an American comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.  Created Classic Comics for Elliot Publishing Company in 1941  and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues.
The series name-changed in March 1947 to Classics Illustrated .

Following the series' demise, various companies reprinted its titles. This series is different from the Great Illustrated Classics, which is an adaptation of the classics for young readers that includes illustrations, but is not in the comic book form.

Classic Comics

Russian-born publisher Albert Lewis Kanter (1897–1973) created Classic Comics for Elliot Publishing Company in 1941 with its debut issues being The Three Musketeers, followed by Ivanhoe and The Count of Monte Cristo.

 In addition to the literary adaptations, books featured author profiles, educational fillers, and an ad for the coming title. In later editions, a catalog of titles and a subscription order form appeared on back covers. Recognizing the appeal of early comic books, Albert Lewis Kanter believed he could use the new medium to introduce young and reluctant readers to "great literature".

The first five titles were published irregularly under the banner "Classic Comics Presents" while issues six and seven were published under the banner "Classic Comics Library" with a ten-cent cover price. Arabian Nights (issue 8), illustrated by Lillian Chestney, is the first issue to use the "Classics Comics" banner.

With the fourth issue, The Last of the Mohicans, in 1942, Kanter moved the operation to different offices and the corporate identity was changed to the Gilberton Company, Inc.. Reprints of previous titles began in 1943. Wartime paper shortages forced Kanter to reduce the 64-page format to 56 pages.

Classic Comics is marked by varying quality in art and is celebrated today for its often garish but highly collectible line-drawn covers. Artists include Lillian Chestney (Arabian Nights, issue 8, and Gulliver's Travels, issue 16), Webb and Brewster (Frankenstein, issue 26), Matt Baker (Lorna Doone, issue 32), and Henry Carl Kiefer (second cover for The Prince and the Pauper, issue 29, cover for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, issue 33, and the first Classics Illustrated issue The Last Days of Pompeii, issue 35). Oliver Twist (issue 23) was the first title produced by the Eisner & Iger shop.

Some titles were packaged in gift boxes of threes or fours during the period with specific themes such as adventure or mystery. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (issue 13) and Uncle Tom's Cabin (issue 15) were both cited in Dr. Fredric Wertham's infamous 1954 condemnation of comic books Seduction of the Innocent. Original edition Classic Comics in Near Mint condition command prices in the thousands of dollars.

Classics Illustrated

The series name-changed in March 1947 to Classics Illustrated with issue 35 The Last Days of Pompeii. In 1948, rising paper costs reduced books to 48 pages. In 1951, line-drawn covers were replaced with painted covers (issue 81), and the price was raised from 10 cents to 15 cents, (and, at a later date, to 25 cents). In addition to Classics Illustrated, Kanter presided over its spin-offs Classics Illustrated Junior (1953), Specials, and The World Around Us. Between 1941 and 1962, sales totaled 200 million.

The publication of new titles ceased in 1962 for various reasons. The company lost its 2nd-class mailing permit and cheap paperbacks, Cliff's Notes, and television drew readers away from the series. Kanter's last new title was issue 167 Faust (August 1962) though other titles had been planned. These titles appeared in the company's foreign editions. In 1967, Kanter sold his company to Catholic publication Twin Circle and its publisher Patrick Frawley, whose Frawley Corporation brought out two more titles but mainly concentrated on foreign sales and reprinting older titles. After four years, Twin Circle discontinued the line because of poor distribution. Since the series' demise, various companies have reprinted its titles. By the early 1970s, Classics Illustrated and Junior had been discontinued, although the Classics Illustrated branding would be used on a series of telemovies produced by Schick Sunn Classics:

 Last of the Mohicans (1977), Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978), The Time Machine(1978),  The Deerslayer (1978), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1981), Adventures of Nellie Bly (1981) and The Fall of the House of Usher (1982).

 

 Artists:

Artists who contributed to Classics Illustrated included Jack Abel, Stephen Addeo, Matt Baker, Dik Browne, Lou Cameron, Sid Check, L.B. Cole, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Denis Gifford, Graham Ingels, Henry C. Kiefer, Alex Blum, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Jack Kirby, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow, Joe Orlando, Norman Nodel, Rudolph Palais, Norman Saunders, John Severin, Joe Sinnott, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson and George Woodbridge.

[Wikipedia]

Classics Illustrated
Publication information
Publisher	Elliot Publishing Co. (1941–1942) Gilberton Company, Inc. (1942–1967) Frawley Corporation (Twin Circle), (1967–1971)
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	1941 – 1971
No. of issues	169
Creative team
Created by	Albert Kanter

TITLES:

Classics Illustrated #001 The Three Musketeers

Classics Illustrated #002 Ivanhoe

Classics Illustrated #003 The Count Of Monte Cristo

Classics Illustrated #004 The Last Of The Mohicans

Classics Illustrated #005 Moby Dick. 

Classics Illustrated #006 A Tale Of Two Cities 

Classics Illustrated #007 Robin Hood

Classics Illustrated #008 Arabian Nights 

Classics Illustrated #009 Les Miserables.

Classics Illustrated #010 Robinson Crusoe 

Classics Illustrated #011 Don Quixote

Classics Illustrated #012 Rip Van Winkle

Classics Illustrated #013 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Classics Illustrated #014 Westward Ho 

Classics Illustrated #015 Uncle Tom's Cabinl

Classics Illustrated #016 Gulliver's Travels

Classics Illustrated #017 The Deer Slayer 

Classics Illustrated #018 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 

Classics Illustrated #019 Huckleberry Finn.

Classics Illustrated #020 The Corsican Brothers

Classics Illustrated #021 Three Famous Mysteries

Classics Illustrated #022 The Pathfinder

Classics Illustrated #023 Oliver Twist

Classics Illustrated #024 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Classics Illustrated #025 Two Years Before The Mast

Classics Illustrated #026 Frankenstein

Classics Illustrated #027 The Adventures Of Marco Polo

Classics Illustrated #028 Michael Strogoff

Classics Illustrated #029 The Prince and the Pauper

Classics Illustrated #030 The Moonstone

Classics Illustrated #031 The Black Arrow

Classics Illustrated #032 Lorna Doone

Classics Illustrated #033 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Classics Illustrated #034 Mysterious Island

Classics Illustrated #035 Last Days of Pompeii

Classics Illustrated #036 Typee

Classics Illustrated #037 The Pioneers

Classics Illustrated #038 Adventures of Cellini.

Classics Illustrated #039 Jane Eyre

Classics Illustrated #040 Mysteries

Classics Illustrated #041 Twenty Years After.

Classics Illustrated #042 Swiss Family Robinson

Classics Illustrated #043 Great Expectations.

Classics Illustrated #044 Mysteries of Paris.

Classics Illustrated #045 Tom Browns School Days

Classics Illustrated #046 Kidnapped

Classics Illustrated #047 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Classics Illustrated #048 David Copperfield

Classics Illustrated #049 Alice in Wonderland

Classics Illustrated #050 Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Very grateful to Jens Terje for providing the pages that complete this series

Classic Comics/Classics Illustrated. #051 - #100 - Elliot Publishing Company [Complete Series]

Classics Illustrated is an American comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.  Created Classic Comics for Elliot Publishing Company in 1941  and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues.
The series name-changed in March 1947 to Classics Illustrated .

Following the series' demise, various companies reprinted its titles. This series is different from the Great Illustrated Classics, which is an adaptation of the classics for young readers that includes illustrations, but is not in the comic book form.

Read more...

TITLES:

Classics Illustrated #051 The Spy

Classics Illustrated #052 The House of the Seven Gables

Classics Illustrated #053 A Christmas Carol

Classics Illustrated #054 Man in the Iron Mask

Classics Illustrated #055 Silas Marner

Classics Illustrated #056 The Toilers Of The Sea

Classics Illustrated #057 The Song of Hiawatha

Classics Illustrated #058 The Prairie

Classics Illustrated #059 Wuthering Heights

Classics Illustrated #060 Black Beauty

Classics Illustrated #061 The Woman In White

Classics Illustrated #062 Western Stories

Classics Illustrated #063 The Man Without a Country

Classics Illustrated #064 Treasure Island

Classics Illustrated #065 Ben Franklin

Classics Illustrated #066 The Cloister And The Hearth

Classics Illustrated #067 The Scottish Chiefs

Classics Illustrated #068 Julius Caesar

Classics Illustrated #069 Around the World in 080 Days

Classics Illustrated #070 The Pilot

Classics Illustrated #071 The Man Who Laughs

Classics Illustrated #072 The Oregon Trail

Classics Illustrated #073 The Black Tulip

Classics Illustrated #074 Mr Midshipman Easy

Classics Illustrated #075 The Lady in The Lake

Classics Illustrated #076 The Prisoner of Zenda

Classics Illustrated #077 Homer's The Iliada

Classics Illustrated #078 Joan of Arc

Classics Illustrated #079 Cyrano de Bergerac

Classics Illustrated #080 White Fang

Classics Illustrated #081 The Odyssey

Classics Illustrated #082 The Master of Ballantrae

Classics Illustrated #083 The Jungle Book

Classics Illustrated #084 The Gold Bug

Classics Illustrated #085 The Sea Wolf

Classics Illustrated #086 Under Two Flags

Classics Illustrated #087 A Midsummer Night's Dream

Classics Illustrated #088 Men of Iron

Classics Illustrated #089 Crime and Punishment

Classics Illustrated #090 Green Mansions

Classics Illustrated #091 The Call of the Wild

Classics Illustrated #092 The Courtshipp of Miles Standish

Classics Illustrated #093 Pudd'n'head Wilson

Classics Illustrated #094 David Balfour

Classics Illustrated #095 All Quiet on the Western Front

Classics Illustrated #096 Daniel Boone

Classics Illustrated #097 King Solomon's Mines

Classics Illustrated #098 The Red Badge of Courag

Classics Illustrated #099 Hamlet

Classics Illustrated #100 Mutiny on the Bounty

Very grateful to Jens Terje for providing the pages that complete this series

Werewolves and Vampires Collector's Edition (Charlton 1962) One-shot [Charlton Comics Collection]

 

Werewolves and Vampires, published by Charlton Publications, Inc. (U.S.A.) 

1962  -   68 pages

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