CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED 55 SILAS MARNER HRN 56 1st O VF
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CLASSIC COMICS ILLUSTRATED 55 SILAS MARNER 1st O HRN 56 VF FIRST EDITION ORIGNAL PRINTING INTERIOR PAGES ARE BEAUTIFUL. SUPERB ART BEAUTIFUL COPY . Please see our other Listings. Thanks SUPERB ART AND GRAPHICS BEAUTIFUL OLD STYLE LINE DRAWN COVERS . CLASSICS COMICS This gorgeous series the Classics Illustrated were comic book adaptations from classic literature by a Russian -born Albert Lewis Kanter (1897-1973) They began in 1941 for Elliot Publishing.Philosophically speaking, we like to think of them as the romance of very fine art and literature in popular culture. But Practically speaking, they come in three basic chronological groups: 19th century literary works containing drawings, early 20th century literary works containing color prints of paintings, and for the last fifty years, comic-book adaptations of great works of literature. Our definition of a classical "comic" is a fully illustrated adaptation, usually abridged, with sequential superb art & graphics panels The first 12- 14 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 visibility over the next 15 years because Kanter, unlike other comic book publishers, kept his titles in print, going back
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