Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated
Three Musketeers, issue #1, Classic Comics, published in 1941.
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 – 1969
No. of issues	169
Creative team
Created by	Albert Kanter
Artist(s)	Lillian Chestney, Henry C. Kiefer, Jack Abel, Matt Baker, Dik Browne, Lou Cameron, Sid Check, L.B. Cole, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Denis Gifford, Graham Ingels, Alex Blum, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Jack Kirby, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow, Joe Orlando, Norman Nodel, Norman Saunders, John Severin, Joe Sinnott, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson, George Woodbridge

Classics Illustrated is an American comic book/magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Misérables, Moby-Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1969, producing 169 issues. Following the series' demise, various companies reprinted its titles. Since then, the Classics Illustrated brand has been used to create new comic book adaptations. 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.

1941–1971: Elliot / Gilberton

Recognizing the appeal of early comic books, Russian-born publisher Albert Lewis Kanter (1897–1973) believed he could use the new medium to introduce young and reluctant readers to "great literature".^[1] He 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. The first five titles were published irregularly under the banner "Classic Comics Presents", while issues #6 and 7 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.^{[citation needed]}

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. World War II paper shortages forced Kanter to reduce the 64-page format to 56 pages. Some titles were packaged in gift boxes of threes or fours during the period, with specific themes such as adventure or mystery.^{[citation needed]}

Classic Comics is marked by varying quality in art and is celebrated today for its often garish but highly collectible line-drawn covers. Original edition Classic Comics in "near mint" condition command prices in the thousands of dollars.^{[citation needed]}

With issue #35 in March 1947 (The Last Days of Pompeii) the series' name was changed to Classics Illustrated. In 1948, rising paper costs reduced books to 48 pages. In 1951 (issue #81), line-drawn covers were replaced with painted covers, and the price was raised from 10 cents to 15 cents (and, at a later date, to 25 cents).

Classics Illustrated benefitted from nationwide distribution (thanks to an agreement with Curtis Circulation) beginning in late 1951,^[2] and Kanter began promoting the series as an educational tool.^[2] Despite this, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (issue #13) and Uncle Tom's Cabin (issue #15) were both cited in Dr. Fredric Wertham's 1954 condemnation of comic books Seduction of the Innocent, in the first case for reducing the story to little more than its violent elements, and in the second case for simplifying the full characterizations of the book to stereotypes.^[3]

Classics Illustrated #65 — Benjamin Franklin (published in November 1949) — written by Adelaide Lee (adaptation) and illustrated by Alex Blum, Robert Hebberd, and Gus Schrotter, was given the 1956 Thomas Alva Edison Foundation National Mass Media Award for Best American History Comic Book.^[4]

As Classics Illustrated became more standardized in the 1950s, Gilberton re-issued earlier editions with new art (and sometimes new script adaptations). All editions were re-issued with new cover art in the 1950s and '60s.

In addition to Classics Illustrated, Kanter presided over its spin-offs Classics Illustrated Junior (1953), Classics Illustrated Special Issue (1955), and The World Around Us (1958). Between 1941 and 1962, sales totaled 200 million.^{[citation needed]}

Of the original 169 issues of Classic Comics/Classics Illustrated produced in the period 1941–1969, the writers with the most representation included Jules Verne, with ten works adapted; Alexandre Dumas, with nine; James Fenimore Cooper, with eight; and Robert Louis Stevenson, with seven. Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and H. G. Wells were all well-represented, with five works adapted each. Seven female authors had their work adapted. Up through 1951, all adaptations were from work in the public domain.^[5] Beginning in 1952, the series occasionally created authorized adaptations of popular 20th-century fiction by such authors as Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (four of their novels), Frank Buck (two of his novels), Charles Boardman Hawes (two novels), Erich Maria Remarque, Talbot Mundy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Emerson Hough.^[5]

In addition to the literary adaptations, each issue of Classics Illustrated featured author profiles, educational fillers, and an advertisement for the coming title. In later editions, a catalog of titles and a subscription order form appeared on back covers.

The publication of new titles in the U.S. ceased in 1962 for various reasons. The company lost its second-class mailing permit; and cheap paperbacks, Cliff's Notes, and television drew readers away from the series.^{[citation needed]} Kanter's last new title was issue #167 Faust (August 1962), though other titles had been planned. Two of these titles – an adaptation of G. A. Henty's In Freedom's Cause, and the original title, Negro Americans: The Early Years – appeared in the company's foreign editions. In addition, in 1962–1963, the British publisher Thorpe & Porter, which at that point was owned by Gilberton,^[6] produced 13 new issues of Classics Illustrated, which were never published in the U.S. Most of the script adaptations were done by Classics Illustrated editor Alfred Sundel.

In 1967, Kanter sold his company to Twin Circle Publishing Co. and its conservative Catholic publisher Patrick Frawley, whose Frawley Corporation in 1969 finally published In Freedom's Cause and Negro Americans, but mainly concentrated on foreign sales and reprinting older titles. After four years, Twin Circle discontinued the line because of poor distribution,^[7] and licensed the rights to other companies until it sold the rights to First Classics, Inc. in 2011.

Writers and artists

The work of adapting the source material and writing comics scripts was done by a group of mostly unknown writers. Alfred Sundel, a long-time editor on the series, scripted more than 20 first-edition adaptations and more than 10 revised editions.^[8] Others with a lot of script adaptation credits include Ken Fitch (sometimes credited as "Kenneth W. Fitch") with 22 issues, Harry G. Miller (sometimes credited as "Harry Glickman") with twelve, Evelyn Goodman with nine, and John O'Rourke with nine. Other writers with multiple adaptations to their names included Ruth Roche, George Lipscomb, Annette T. Rubenstein, and Sam Willinsky.

Henry C. Kiefer was the main artist for many issues of Classic Comics and Classics Illustrated, and his work came to define the "look" of the series. For Classic Comics, he illustrated the 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. For Classics Illustrated, he drew the majority of at least 20 issues from the series in the period 1947–1953. Alex Blum also illustrated more than 20 issues of the series in the period 1948–1955. Norman Nodel illustrated more than 20 issues of Classics Illustrated (a number of them being re-issues with new art).^[9]

Other artists who contributed to Classic Comics include Lillian Chestney (Arabian Nights, issue #8, and Gulliver's Travels, issue #16), Webb and Brewster (Frankenstein, issue #26), and Matt Baker (Lorna Doone, issue #32). Oliver Twist (issue #23) was the first title produced by the Eisner & Iger shop.^[10]

Other notable artists who drew multiple issues of Classics Illustrated included George Evans, Lou Cameron, Reed Crandall, Pete Costanza, L.B. Cole, John Severin, Gray Morrow, and Joe Orlando. Lesser-known names with multiple credits include Rudy Palais, Arnold Hicks, Maurice Del Bourgo, Louis Zansky, August Froehlich, and Bob Webb, Jack Abel, Stephen Addeo, Charles J. Berger, Dik Browne, Denis Gifford, Roy Krenkel, John Parker, Norman Saunders, Joe Sinnott, Al Williamson and George Woodbridge.

Classics Illustrated Junior

Classics Illustrated Junior featured Albert Lewis Kanter's comic book adaptations of fairy and folk tale, myth and legends. In 1953, Classics Illustrated Junior debuted with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; the line eventually numbered 77 issues, ending publication in 1971. Issues included miscellanea such as an Aesop fable and a full-page illustration to color with crayons. Artists included John Costanza and Kurt Schaffenberger.

Classics Illustrated Special Issue

Despite numbering that aligns with the main Classics Illustrated title, Classics Illustrated Special Issue is generally regarded as a separate title; instead of adaptations, subjects were historical or biographical. Published in December and June from December 1955 to 1964, issues were generally 100 pages long — twice the size of a typical Classics Illustrated. Notable artists included Angelo Torres, Bruno Premiani, Don Perlin, Edd Ashe, Everett Kinstler, George Evans, Gerald McCann, Graham Ingels, Gray Morrow, Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers, Joe Orlando, John Tartaglione, Norman Nodel, Pete Morisi, Reed Crandall, Sam Glanzman, and Sid Check.

1990–1991: First Comics

Classics Illustrated
Publication information
Publisher	First Comics
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	Feb. 1990 – June 1991
No. of issues	27
Creative team
Artist(s)	Kyle Baker, Pat Boyette, Rick Geary, Gary Gianni, Peter Kuper, Tom Mandrake, Dean Motter, Mike Ploog, P. Craig Russell, Bill Sienkiewicz, John K. Snyder III, Dan Spiegle, Joe Staton, Jill Thompson, Ricardo Villagran, Gahan Wilson
Editor(s)	Wade Roberts (issues #1–17), Valarie Jones (issues #18–25), Byron Erickson (issues #26–27)

In 1988 First Comics partnered with Berkley Publishing to acquire the rights, and announced it was reviving the Classics Illustrated brand with all-new adaptations.^[11] In 1990 (after some delays),^[12] Classics Illustrated returned after a nearly 30-year hiatus, with a line-up of artists that included Kyle Baker, Dean Motter, Mike Ploog, P. Craig Russell, Bill Sienkiewicz, Joe Staton, Rick Geary and Gahan Wilson.

The line lasted only a little over a year, publishing 27 issues. Titles solicited but never published were Kidnapped, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Red Badge of Courage, The War of the Worlds, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Last of the Mohicans.^[13] Kidnapped, adapted by Mike Vosburg, was later published by Papercutz in 2012.

1997–1998: Acclaim Books

In 1997–1998, Acclaim Books (the successor to Valiant Comics) published a series of recolored reprints of the Gilberton issues in a digest size format with accompanying study notes by literary scholars. The Acclaim line included Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with art by Frank Giacoia; and The Three Musketeers, illustrated by George Evans. The series favored Mark Twain, also with reprints of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Prince and the Pauper and Tom Sawyer. Other reprints in this series were Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. The series lasted 62 issues, with three of the final four issues being all-new adaptations.

2008–2014: Papercutz

In 2007, Papercutz acquired the Classics Illustrated license and announced that they would begin publishing new graphic novels ("Classics Illustrated Deluxe") as well as reprints of the First Comics series from 1990 to 1991. The new modern adaptations were largely produced in France; Papercutz published 12 volumes – including The Wind in the Willows, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – from 2008 to 2014.

The First Comics reprint series of adaptations was published by Papercutz in a different order from the originals and emphasized some of the later, low-circulation volumes. 19 issues were published (out of the original 27) from 2008 to 2014.^[14]

1989–present: First Classics, Inc.

First Classics, Inc., formed in 1989, eventually took over management of the Classics Illustrated rights licensed to First Publishing (formerly First Comics) by the Frawley Corporation.

Starting in 2002, First Classics enlisted Jack Lake Productions (JLP) of Canada to produce Classics Illustrated and Classics Illustrated Junior books based on the original Gilberton lineup, many of them remastered by JLP.

In August 2011, First Classics purchased the rights to the Classics Illustrated family of books from Frawley Corporation.^[15]

In 2020, First Classics and Jack Lake Productions settled their long-running dispute over the rights to Classics Illustrated. Some main outcomes of the settlement were that Jack Lake Productions and the artists involved with the CI book remastering will be cited in books that use the remastered art, and reaffirmation of First Classics as the rights holder to Classics Illustrated.^[16]

Through the years, First Classics worked with Trajectory, Inc. to license Classics Illustrated throughout the world, and also to create and make available many titles in the Classics Illustrated family of books in e-book format. First Classics currently publishes these e-books. Classics Illustrated continues to be published throughout the world in various languages through license from First Classics. In English, Classic Comic Store (CCS Books) of the UK re-publishes much of the Classics Illustrated lineup.^[17]

Digital editions

In 2011, Marblehead, Massachusetts-based Trajectory Inc. issued the first digital editions of Gilberton Classics Illustrated regular and Junior lines. In 2014, Trajectory Inc. was granted the exclusive worldwide rights to produce, distribute and license the brand. The primary rights-holder for the digital editions is First Classics, Inc.

International editions

Country	Publisher	Classics Illustrated native name	Publication start	Publication end	Issues	Notes	Source
Australia	Ayers & James	Classic Comics (later Classics Illustrated)	1947	1953	72		[18]
Brazil	Editora Brasil-América Limitada	Edição Maravilhosa	1948	1961	200
Canada	Gilberton	Classics Illustrated	1948	1951	78		[19]
Canada	Jack Lake Productions	Classics Illustrated	2003	2013	86
Denmark	I.K.	Illustrerede klassikere	1956	1974	227	In 1969, I.K. began publishing Stjerneklassiker ("Star Classics"), featuring more Classics Illustrated reprints; this series was continued beginning in 1970 by the successor to I.K., Williams[20] lasting until 1974.[21]	[22][23]
France	Williams France	Les classiques illustrés	1973	1974	15		[24][25]
Germany	Internationale Klassiker	Illustrierte Klassiker	1956	1972	204	Publisher later became Bildschriftverlag (BSV). BSV was acquired by National Periodical Publications (DC Comics) in 1966. In October 1973, the publisher became Williams (independent of BSV), with its headquarters on Elbchaussee in Hamburg.
Germany	Norbert Hethke Verlag	Illustrierte Klassiker	1991	2002	206	Reprints of German I.K./BSV/Williams versions
Germany	BSV Hannover	Illustrierte Klassiker	2015	present	36	Revived the title with issue #206; it continues to the present day
Greece	Ekdóseis Pechlivanídi (Ατλαντίς / Πεχλιβανίδης)	Klassiká Eikonografiména (Κλασσικά Εικονογραφημένα)	1951	1990	806	Three separate series (1951–1970, 1975–1980, 1989–1990); many reprints of their own publications, but also created 90 original adaptations of Greek myths and stories	[26]
Iceland	Gudmundar Karlsson	Sígildar Sögur	1956	1957	26		[27]
India	H. R. Publications	Classics Illustrated	1994	1994	42		[28]
Italy	Editrice il Picchio	I Classici Illustrati	1979	1979	8		[29]
Mexico	Editora de Periódicos La Prensa	Clásicos Ilustrados	1951	1973	182	Some new covers for the Mexican audience	[30]
Netherlands	Classics	Illustrated Classics	1956	1976	214	Publisher founded as a European branch of Gilberton.[31] The company changed names to "Williams" in the early 1970s; most of its remaining titles were acquired by Kontekst in 1979.[31]	[32]
Norway	Serieforlaget	Illustrerte Klassikere	1954	1976	229	Series acquired in 1957 by Illustrerte Klassikere, another European branch of Gilberton; later renamed Williams Forlag	[33][34][35]
Philippines	G. Miranda & Sons	Famous Classics Illustrated	1971	1972	26	Although the logo design and covers emulated the original series, much of the content seems to have been original. Its serial numbering differs.	[36]
Portugal	Empresa Nacional de Publicidade (ENP)	Obras-Primas Ilustradas	1955	1964	14		[37]
Sweden	Illustrerade Klassiker	Illustrerade Klassiker	1956	1976	549	Publisher reorganized into Williams Förlags AB in 1965;[38] published many reprints of their own issues. Some early issues, at least, were original Scandinavian adaptations, often written by Alfred Sundel. The art for these was usually from a Spanish studio like Editorial Bruguera, with many covers by Antonio Bernal Romero.[39]	[40]
United Kingdom	Thorpe & Porter	Classics Illustrated	1951	1963	181	Produced and published 13 new issues of the series which were never released in the U.S.
United Kingdom	Classic Comic Store	Classics Illustrated	2008	present	87
Yugoslavia	Vecernje novosti - Kekec	Novosti za decu - Klasici u stripu	1968	1968	21

Brazil

In 1948, the Brazilian comic book publisher Brazilian-American Editions, Ltd [pt] (EBAL) launched the Marvellous Edition [pt] series, which reprinted many issues of Classics Illustrated,^[41] and which included original adaptations of Brazilian novels.^[42]

In the 1990s, Editora Abril published some stories from the First Comics Classics Illustrated series.^[43] In 2010, HQM Editora published Through the Looking-Glass, originally adapted in 1990 by Kyle Baker for the First Comics series.^[44]

Canada

Gilberton published a Canadian version of Classics Illustrated in the period 1948–1951, putting out 78 issues.^[19]

In 2003, Toronto's Jack Lake Productions revived Classics Illustrated Junior, creating new remastered artwork from the original editions. In 2005, Jack Lake Productions published a Classics Illustrated 50th-anniversary edition of The War of the Worlds in both hard and softcover versions. In November 2007, Jack Lake Productions published for the first time in North America Classics Illustrated #170 The Aeneid (originally published in the UK) along with issues #1 of The Three Musketeers, #4 of The Last of the Mohicans, and #5 of Moby Dick.

In October 2016, Jack Lake Productions republished under the Classic Comics banner eleven remastered original Gilberton titles:

• #11 Don Quixote
• #14 Westward Ho!
• #17 The Deerslayer
• #20 The Corsican Brothers
• #21 Three Famous Mysteries
• #22 The Pathfinder
• #79 Cyrano de Bergerac
• #122 The Mutineers
• #123 Fang and Claw
• #168 In Freedom's Cause
• #174 Captain Blood – new addition, originally published in Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated #2 (Seaboard Publishing, 1950).

Germany

The German publisher Internationale Klassiker, later renamed Bildschriftenverlag (BSV), was founded in 1956 to publish translated editions of Classics Illustrated (as Illustrierte Klassiker). The company released 204 issues of the title from 1956 to 1972.^[45] BSV was acquired by National Periodical Publications (DC Comics) in 1966.^[46] In October 1973, the publisher became Williams (independent of BSV), with its headquarters on Elbchaussee in Hamburg. In 2013, the publisher BSV Hannover revived the title with issue #206; it continues to the present day.^[47]

Meanwhile, beginning in 1991 and lasting until 2002, the German publisher Norbert Hethke Verlag reprinted the Illustrierte Klassiker series.^[48]

Greece

In Greece the series is named Κλασσικά Εικονογραφημένα (Klassiká Eikonografiména, meaning "Classics Illustrated") and has been published continuously since 1951 by Εκδόσεις Πεχλιβανίδη (Ekdóseis Pechlivanídi, Pechlivanídis Publications). It is based on the American series, with the difference that well-known Greek illustrators and novelists work to adapt stories of particular Greek interest. In addition to the titles that were translated from the US Classics Illustrated more than 70 titles were published with themes from Greek mythology and Greek history. Κλασσικά Εικονογραφημένα are read by thousands of young Greeks, and the first issues are of interest to collectors.

The publishing house of Κλασσικά Εικονογραφημένα, Εκδόσεις Πεχλιβανίδη (Pechlivanídis Publications), was founded by three brothers of the Πεχλιβανίδης (Pechlivanídis) family from the Greek-speaking parts of Asia Minor: Μιχάλης, Michális, Michael; Κώστας, Kóstas; and Γιώργος, Giórgos, George), collectively known as αδελφοί Πεχλιβανίδη (Pechlivanídis brothers). They had extensive experience in publishing from the 1920s, mainly in advertising – but also in children's books after 1936, when Κώστας Πεχλιβανίδης (Kóstas Pechlivanídis) finished his studies in the – then modern – printing techniques in Leipzig.

The Pechlivanídis brothers had inherited the printing press of Bavarian lithographer Grundman – and his experience as well. Having worked for years with offset printing, the Pechlivanídis brothers founded after the war the Εκδόσεις Ατλαντίς (Atlantis Publications) house in order to restart publishing children's books. They had read Classics Illustrated while traveling in the US, and arranged to publish them in Greece as well.

The first issue of Κλασσικά Εικονογραφημένα was made available on 1 March 1951. It was an adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, and attracted extensive critique in Greece, both positive and negative. It was the first "American" kind of comic in Greece and also the first four-color or tetrachromatic offset (with 336 multicolored illustrations as the front page advertised). Its cost at the time was 4,000 drachmas, and the first edition (90,000 copies) went out of print quickly and was reprinted twice in the following days. According to Atlantis, it sold about a million copies.

United Kingdom

Thorpe & Porter / Williams

The British publisher Thorpe & Porter published Classics Illustrated reprints (and a few original stories) from 1951 to 1963. Of the 181 British issues,^[a] 13 had never appeared in America. Additionally, there were some variations in cover art.

The British Classics Illustrated adaptation of Dr. No was never published under the U.S. Classics Illustrated line, but instead was sold to DC Comics, which published it in 1963 as part of their superhero anthology series, Showcase.^[49] The comic followed the plot of the film with images of the film's actors rather than Ian Fleming's original novel.

In 1976–1977, the successor company to Thorpe & Porter, Williams Publishing, released the Double Duo series, which for the first time reprinted translated issues of Classics Illustrated originally published in Swedish (by Illustrerade klassiker / Williams Förlags AB) in the period 1964–1970. Each digest-sized issue contained two stories, coming in at a total of 68 pages per issue. All the stories were illustrated by members of a Spanish comics studio.^[50]

Classic Comic Store

In September 2008, Classic Comic Store, based in the U.K., began publishing both the original Gilberton Classics Illustrated regular and Junior lines for distribution in the U.K., Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The issue number sequence is different from the original runs, although the Junior series was in the same sequence as the original, but with numbering starting at 1 instead of 501. The covers were digitally 'cleaned up' and enhanced, based on the original US covers. In September 2009, Classic Comic Store Ltd announced that although they would continue to publish the Classics Illustrated titles, they were no longer publishing the Junior series after issue 12, but rather importing the issues from Canada. This meant that the numbers used would be as per the Canadian issues (i.e. the first one imported would be issue 513). In October 2012 (when issue 44 had been dispatched), Classic Comic Store Ltd no longer continued with a subscription service in the UK, because of the costs involved. The company told subscribers that they were planning on producing four issues at a time, but not on a specified time scale. The first of these batches (issues 45–48) was produced in October 2013. The second batch (49, 57–62) was available in August 2016 (although the issues stated "First Published May 2016"). The gap (50–56) was a result of the artwork for them being unavailable to Classic Comic Store in refreshed form, the intention being to publish them at a future date; this was completed by March 2019, after which issues continued to be produced in order from the last previously-published issue.

New publications for Classic Comic Store editions:

• July 2011: Nicholas Nickleby (issue #32) became the first new title in the 48-page series since Gilberton's 1969 publication of #169 (Negro Americans: The Early Years). The artwork came from the November 1950 Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated (Seaboard Publishing) edition of Nicholas Nickleby and retained the original Gustav Schrotter interior art.^{[CCS notes 1]}
• October 2012: The 39 Steps (issue #44) became the second brand-new title to the Classics Illustrated canon.
• September 2013: The Argonauts (issue #48) was published – one of 13 which were never issued in the US collection but only in the UK.
• March 2019: The Aeneid (issue #72) was published – another which was not issued in the original US collection but only in the UK – although in 2007, it was issued in North America as #170.
• March 2019: Through the Looking-Glass (issue 73) was published – this was not issued in the original US collection, but was published in 1990 as #3 in the First Comics run.

Expanded World Series Facsimile Series

In March 2024, Classic Comic Store started publishing a new series under their Classics Illustrated Joint European Series (JES), which publishes classic stories and true histories from all over the world, available in English for the first time.

Current titles:

• March 2024

1. Stalingrad (originally published in 1962 in Spanish by Editorial Novaro^[51])
2. Dunkirk (originally published in 1962 in Spanish by Editorial Novaro^[52])
3. D-Day: The Normandy Invasion (originally published in 2015 in Spanish by Editorial Novaro^[53])
4. Beowulf (originally published in 1963 in Spanish by Editorial Novaro^[54])

Issues

Original Elliot/Gilberton run

Authorship is based on William B. Jones Jr.'s Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, second edition (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002), Appendices A and B; as well as the information held by Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Division in their Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection^[55][56] as well as the Grand Comics Database.

Issue	Original publication[b]	Title	Author	Original adaptation	Original illustrator	Later adaptation	Later illustrator
Issued as Classic Comics titles
1	October 1941	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas, père	Malcolm Kildale	Malcolm Kildale		George Evans
2	December 1941	Ivanhoe	Walter Scott	Albert Kanter	Edd Ashe		Norman Nodel
3	March 1942	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas, père		Ray Ramsey; Allen Simon; Vivian Lipman		Lou Cameron
4	August 1942	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper		Ray Ramsey		John Severin; L. B. Cole; Stephen L. Addeo
5	September 1942	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	Louis Zansky	Louis Zansky (with Harvey Kurtzman)		Norman Nodel
6	October 1942	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	Evelyn Goodman	S. M. Zuckerberg (as "Stanley Maxwell Zuckerberg")	Annette T. Rubenstein	Joe Orlando (with George Evans)
7	December 1942	Robin Hood	(Uncredited; based in part on Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle)	Evelyn Goodman	Louis Zansky and Fred Eng	Annette T. Rubenstein?	Jack Sparling
8	February 1943	Arabian Nights	---	Alfred Sundel	Lillian Chestney; Charles Berger	Alfred Sundel	Charles Berger
9	March 1943	Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	Evelyn Goodman	R. H. Livingstone	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel
10	April 1943	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	Evelyn Goodman	S. M. Zuckerberg (as "Stanley Maxwell")		Sam Citron; Charles Sultan
11	May 1943	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	Samuel Abramson	Louis Zansky	—	–
12	June 1943	Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman	Washington Irving	Dan Levin	R. H. Livingstone (as "Rolland Livingstone")		Norman Nodel
13	August 1943	Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Evelyn Goodman	Arnold Hicks		Lou Cameron
14	September 1943	Westward Ho!	Charles Kingsley	Daniel Kushner	Allen Simon	—	—
15	November 1943	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Evelyn Goodman	R. H. Livingstone	—	—
16	December 1943	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	Daniel Kushner	Lillian Chestney	—	—
17	January 1944	The Deerslayer	James Fenimore Cooper	Evelyn Goodman	Louis Zansky	—	—
18	March 1944	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo	Alfred Sundel	Evelyn Goodman	Alfred Sundel	Reed Crandall and George Evans
19	April 1944	Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	Evelyn Goodman	Louis Zansky	—	Mike Sekowsky & Frank Giacoia
20	June 1944	The Corsican Brothers	Alexandre Dumas, père	Stephen Burrows	Allen Simon	—	—
21	July 1944	Three Famous Mysteries (The Sign of the Four, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Flayed Hand")	Arthur Conan Doyle/Edgar Allan Poe/Guy de Maupassant	Dan Levin	Louis Zansky; Allen Simons; Arnold Hicks	—	—
22	October 1944	The Pathfinder	James Fenimore Cooper	Evelyn Goodman	Louis Zansky	Alfred Sundel (unpublished)	Norman Nodel (unpublished)
23	July 1945	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	Georgina Campbell	Arnold Hicks	Alfred Sundel	Reed Crandall and George Evans
24	September 1945	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Mark Twain	Ruth Roche and Tom Scott	Jack Hearne		Jack Sparling
25	October 1945	Two Years Before the Mast	R. H. Dana Jr.	Ruth Roche	Bob Webb (as "Robert Hayward Webb") and David Heames	—	—
26	December 1945	Frankenstein	Mary W. Shelley	Ruth Roche	Bob Webb (as "Robert Hayward Webb") and Ann Brewster	—	—
27	April 1946	The Adventures of Marco Polo	Marco Polo; Donn Byrne	Emanuel Demby	Homer Fleming	—	—
28	June 1946	Michael Strogoff	Jules Verne	Pat Adams	Arnold Hicks	—	—
29	July 1946	The Prince and the Pauper	Mark Twain	Scott Feldman and Jack Bass	Arnold Hicks	—	—
30	September 1946	The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins	Dan Levin	Don Rico	—	—
31	October 1946	The Black Arrow	Robert Louis Stevenson	Tom Scott and Ruth Roche	Arnold Hicks	—	—
32	December 1946	Lorna Doone	R. D. Blackmore	Ruth Roche	Matt Baker	—	—
33	January 1947	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles)	Arthur Conan Doyle		Louis Zansky with Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
34	February 1947	Mysterious Island	Jules Verne	Manning Stokes	David Heames; Bob Webb (as "Robert Hayward Webb")	—	—
Issued as Classics Illustrated titles
35	(March 1947)	The Last Days of Pompeii	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	I. Thos	Henry C. Kiefer (as "H. C. Kiefer")	Alfred Sundel	Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers
36	(April 1947)	Typee	Herman Melville	Harry G. Miller	Ezra Whiteman	—	—
37	(May 1947)	The Pioneers	James Fenimore Cooper	Sam Willinsky	Rudy Palais	—	—
38	(June 1947)	The Adventures of Cellini	John Addington Symonds	Leslie Katz	August Froehlich	Alfred Sundel	Dino Battaglia
39	(July 1947)	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	Harry G. Miller (as "Harry Glickman")	Harley Griffiths	Alfred Sundel	H. J. Kihl
40	(August 1947)	Mysteries ("The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," "The Fall of the House of Usher")	Edgar Allan Poe	Samuel Willinsky	August Froehlich; Henry C. Kiefer; Harley Griffiths	—	—
41	(September 1947)	Twenty Years After	Alexandre Dumas, père	Harry G. Miller	Robert C. Burns	—	—
42		The Swiss Family Robinson	Jonathan Wyss	Elspeth Campbell	Henry C. Kiefer		Norman Nodel
43	(November 1947)	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens		Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
44	(December 1947)	Mysteries of Paris	Eugene Sue	Albert Avitabile	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
45	(January 1948)	Tom Brown's School Days	Thomas Hughes		Homer Fleming	Alfred Sundel	John Tartaglione
46		Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	John O'Rourke	Bob Webb and David Heames	—	—
47		Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne		Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
48		David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	George Lipscomb	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
49		Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll		Alex Blum	—	—
50		Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	Harry G. Miller	Aldo Rubano	—	—
51		The Spy	James Fenimore Cooper		Arnold Hicks	—	—
52	(October 1948)	The House of the Seven Gables	Nathaniel Hawthorne	John O'Rourke	Harley Griffiths		George Woodbridge
53	(November 1948)	Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	George Lipscomb	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
54	(December 1948)	The Man in the Iron Mask	Alexandre Dumas, père	John O'Rourke	August Froehlich		Ken Battefield
55	(January 1949)	Silas Marner	George Eliot	Harry G. Miller (as "Harry Glickman")	Arnold Hicks	—	—
56	(February 1949)	Toilers of the Sea	Victor Hugo	Harry G. Miller (as "Harry Glickman")	August Froehlich	Alfred Sundel	Angelo Torres
57	(March 1949)	The Song of Hiawatha	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		Alex Blum	—	—
58	(April 1949)	The Prairie	James Fenimore Cooper		Rudy Palais (as "Rudolph Palais")	—	—
59		Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	Harry G. Miller (as "Harry Glickman")	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
60	(June 1949)	Black Beauty	Anna Sewell		August Froehlich	Alfred Sundel	L. B. Cole, Norman Nodel, and Stephen Addeo
61		The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	John O'Rourke	Alex Blum	—	—
62	(August 1949)	Western Stories ("The Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat")	Bret Harte		Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
63		The Man Without a Country	Edward Everett Hale	John O'Rourke	Henry C. Kiefer	Alfred Sundel	Angelo Torres and Stephen Addeo
64		Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	Ken Fitch	Alex Blum	—	—
65		Benjamin Franklin – Autobiography	Benjamin Franklin	Adelaide Lee	Alex Blum; Robert Hebberd; Gus Schrotter (as "Gustave Schrotter")	—	—
66	(December 1949)	The Cloister and the Hearth	Charles Reade	Leslie Katz	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
67		The Scottish Chiefs	Jane Porter	John O'Rourke	Alex Blum	—	—
68		Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare		Henry C. Kiefer	Alfred Sundel	Reed Crandall and George Evans
69		Around the World in 80 Days	Jules Verne		Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
70		The Pilot	James Fenimore Cooper		Alex Blum	—	—
71	(May 1950)	The Man Who Laughs	Victor Hugo		Alex Blum	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel
72		The Oregon Trail	Francis Parkman	John O'Rourke	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
73	(July 1950)	The Black Tulip	Alexandre Dumas, père	Ken Fitch	Alex Blum	—	—
74	(August 1950)	Mr Midshipman Easy	Frederick Marryat	Ken Fitch	Bob Lamme	—	—
75	(September 1950)	The Lady of the Lake	Walter Scott	George Lipscomb	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
76		The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope	Ken Fitch	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
77		The Iliad	Homer		Alex Blum	—	—
78		Joan of Arc	---	Sam Willinsky	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
79		Cyrano de Bergerac	Edmond Rostand	Ken Fitch	Alex Blum	—	—
80	(February 1951)	White Fang	Jack London	Ken Fitch	Alex Blum	—	—
81		The Odyssey	Homer		Harley Griffiths	—	—
82		The Master of Ballantrae	Robert Louis Stevenson	Ken Fitch	Lawrence Dresser	—	—
83	(May 1951)	The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling		Alex Blum; William Bossert	—	Norman Nodel
84	(June 1951)	The Gold Bug and Other Stories	Edgar Allan Poe		Alex Blum	—	—
85		The Sea Wolf	Jack London	John O'Rourke	Alex Blum	—	—
86		Under Two Flags	Ouida	Ken Fitch (as "Kenneth W. Fitch")	Maurice Del Bourgo; John Bulthuis	—	—
87		A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare	Sam Willinsky	Alex Blum	—	—
88		Men of Iron	Howard Pyle	John O'Rourke	Lawrence Dresser; Gus Schrotter (as "Gustav Schrotter"); Harry Daugherty	—	—
89		Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky		Rudy Palais (as "Rudolph Palais")	—	—
90		Green Mansions	W H Hudson	George Lipscomb	Alex Blum	—	—
91		The Call of the Wild	Jack London	Ken Fitch	Maurice Del Bourgo	—	—
92		The Courtship of Miles Standish and Evangeline	Longfellow		Alex Blum	—	—
93		Pudd'nhead Wilson	Samuel L Clemens		Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
94		David Balfour	Robert Louis Stevenson		Rudy Palais	—	—
95	May 1952[57]	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	Ken Fitch	Maurice Del Bourgo	—	—
96		Daniel Boone	John Bakeless	Ken Fitch	Alex Blum	—	—
97		King Solomon's Mines	H. Rider Haggard	Ken Fitch (as "Kenneth W. Fitch")	Henry C. Kiefer (as "H. C. Kiefer")	—	—
98		The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane		Gus Schrotter (as "Gustav Schrotter")	—	—
99		Hamlet	William Shakespeare	Sam Willinsky	Alex Blum	—	—
100		Mutiny on the Bounty	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	Ken Fitch	Morris Waldinger	—	—
101		William Tell	Frederick Schiller	Ken Fitch	Maurice Del Bourgo	—	—
102		The White Company	Arthur Conan Doyle	Ken Fitch	Alex Blum	—	—
103		Men Against the Sea	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	Ken Fitch	Rudy Palais	—	—
104		Bring 'Em Back Alive	Frank Buck and Edward Anthony	Ken Fitch	Henry C. Kiefer	—	—
105		From the Earth to the Moon	Jules Verne		Alex Blum	—	—
106		Buffalo Bill	(Uncredited; possibly based on An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill by William Cody)		Maurice Del Bourgo	—	—
107		King — of the Khyber Rifles	Talbot Mundy		Sy Moskowitz	—	—
108		Knights of the Round Table	(Uncredited; based in part on The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle)		Alex Blum	—	—
109		Pitcairn's Island	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	Ken Fitch	Rudy Palais	—	—
110	(August 1953)	A Study in Scarlet	Arthur Conan Doyle	Ken Fitch	Sy Moskowitz	—	—
111		The Talisman	Walter Scott	Ken Fitch (as "Kenneth W. Fitch")	Sy Moskowitz (as "Seymour Moskowitz")	—	—
112		The Adventures of Kit Carson	Edward Ellis	Ken Fitch (as "Kenneth W. Fitch")	Rudy Palais	—	—
113		The Forty Five Guardsmen	Alexandre Dumas, père	Ken Fitch	Maurice Del Bourgo	—	—
114		The Red Rover	James Fenimore Cooper		Pete Costanza	—	—
115		How I Found Livingstone	Henry M Stanley		Sal Trapani and Sal Finocchiaro	—	—
116		The Bottle Imp (also "The Beach of Falesá")	Robert Louis Stevenson		Lou Cameron	—	—
117		Captains Courageous	Rudyard Kipling	Ira Zweifach	Pete Costanza	—	—
118		Rob Roy	Walter Scott	Harry G. Miller	Rudy Palais and Walter Palais	—	—
119		Soldiers of Fortune	Richard Harding Davis	Harry G. Miller	Kurt Schaffenberger	—	—
120		Hurricane	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	Harry G. Miller	Lou Cameron	—	—
121		Wild Bill Hickok	Wild Bill Hickok	Ira Zweifach	Medio Iorio and Sal Trapani	—	—
122		The Mutineers	Charles Boardman Hawes	Harry G. Miller	Pete Costanza	—	—
123		Fang and Claw	Frank Buck		Lin Streeter	—	—
124		The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	Harry G. Miller	Lou Cameron	—	—
125		The Ox-Bow Incident	Walter Van Tilburg Clark	Lorenz Graham	Norman Nodel	—	—
126		The Downfall	Émile Zola		Lou Cameron	—	—
127		The King of the Mountains	Edmond About (translated by Mary Louise Booth)		Norman Nodel	—	—
128		Macbeth	William Shakespeare	Lorenz Graham	Alex Blum	—	—
129	(November 1955)	Davy Crockett	(Uncredited; based on A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee by Davy Crockett)		Lou Cameron	—	—
130		Caesar's Conquests (see also Caesar's Civil War)	Julius Caesar	Annette T. Rubenstein	Joe Orlando	—	—
131		The Covered Wagon	Emerson Hough	Annette T. Rubenstein	Norman Nodel	—	—
132		The Dark Frigate	Charles Boardman Hawes	Annette T. Rubinstein	Ed Waldman; Bob Webb	—	—
133		The Time Machine	H. G. Wells	Lorenz Graham	Lou Cameron	—	—
134		Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare		George Evans	—	—
135		Waterloo	Chatrian Erckmann		Graham Ingels	—	—
136		Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad		George Evans	—	—
137		The Little Savage	Frederick Marryat		George Evans	—	—
138		Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne		Norman Nodel	—	—
139		Reign of Terror	G. A. Henty		George Evans	—	—
140		On Jungle Trails	Frank Buck		Norman Nodel	—	—
141		Castle Dangerous	Walter Scott		Stan Campbell	—	—
142		Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: A Biography)	Benjamin P. Thomas		Norman Nodel	—	—
143		Kim	Rudyard Kipling		Joe Orlando	—	—
144		First Men in the Moon	H. G. Wells		George Woodbridge; Al Williamson; Angelo Torres; Roy Krenkel	—	—
145		The Crisis	Winston Churchill		George Evans	—	—
146		With Fire and Sword	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Betty Jacobson	George Woodbridge	—	—
147		Ben Hur	Lew Wallace	Betty Jacobson	Joe Orlando	—	—
148		Buccaneer	Based on the Cecil B. DeMille film, which was in turn based on the novel Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon		Bob Jenney; George Evans	—	—
149		Off on a Comet	Jules Verne		Gerald McCann	—	—
150		The Virginian	Owen Wister		Norman Nodel	—	—
151		Won by the Sword	G. A. Henty		John Tartaglione	—	—
152		Wild Animals I Have Known	Ernest Thompson Seton		L. B. Cole	—	—
153		The Invisible Man	H. G. Wells	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel	—	—
154		The Conspiracy of Pontiac	Francis Parkman	Alfred Sundel	Gerald McCann	—	—
155		The Lion of the North	G. A. Henty	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel	—	—
156		The Conquest of Mexico	Bernal Diaz Del Castillo	Alfred Sundel	Bruno Premiani	—	—
157		The Lives of the Hunted	Ernest Thompson Seton	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel	—	—
158		The Conspirators	Alexandre Dumas, père	Alfred Sundel	Gerald McCann	—	—
159		The Octopus	Frank Norris	Alfred Sundel	Gray Morrow	—	—
160		The Food of the Gods	H. G. Wells	Alfred Sundel	Tony Tallarico	—	—
161		Cleopatra	H. Rider Haggard	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel	—	—
162		Robur the Conqueror	Jules Verne	Alfred Sundel	Don Perlin	—	—
163		The Master of the World	Jules Verne	Alfred Sundel	Gray Morrow	—	—
164		The Cossack Chief	Nikolai Gogol	Alfred Sundel	Sid Miller	—	—
165		The Queen's Necklace	Alexandre Dumas, père	Alfred Sundel	Gray Morrow	—	—
166		Tigers and Traitors	Jules Verne	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel	—	—
167	(August 1967)	Faust	Goethe	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel	—	—
168	Winter 1969[58]	In Freedom's Cause	G. A. Henty	Alfred Sundel	George Evans; Reed Crandall	—	—
169	Spring 1969[59]	Negro Americans, the Early Years	(biographical sketches of Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Prince Hall, Prince Whipple, Oliver Cromwell, Spy James, Deborah Gannett, Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley, James Beckwourth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, William Carney, Martin Delany, Charles H. Davis, Henry Flipper, Isaiah Dorman, Nat Love, Daniel Hale Williams, Elijah McCoy, Garrett A. Morgan, Granville T. Woods, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and Matthew Henson)	Deena Weintraub	Norman Nodel; Martin Nodell; Gray Morrow	—	—

Classics Illustrated Special Issue

Publication dates from Classics Central.^[60]

Issue	Original publication[c]	Title	Chapters	Author	Illustrator(s)	Notes
129A	December 1955	The Story of Jesus	N/A	Lorenz Graham	William A. Walsh & Alex Blum[61]
132A	June 1956	The Story of America	The Man Who Discovered America, The Birth of America, Paul Revere's Ride, The Star Spangled Banner		Lou Cameron
135A	(December 1956)	The Ten Commandments	The Ten Commandments, Joseph and His Brethren	Lorenz Graham	Norman Nodel
138A	June 1957	Adventures in Science	The Story of Flight, Andy's Atomic Adventure, The Discoveries of Louis Pasteur, From Tom Tom to TV		Pete Costanza
141A	December 1957	The Rough Rider	The Rough Rider			Biography of Theodore Roosevelt; "prepared in cooperation with the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission."
144A	June 1958	Blazing the Trails West	"Gold, Fur and Freedom"; "Daniel Boone"; "The Lewis and Clark Expedition"; "The Santa Fe Trail"; "Fur and Mountains"; "Kit Carson"; "Texas and the Alamo"; "The Mexican War"
147A	December 1958	Crossing the Rockies	The Oregon Trail, Death and the Donners, This Is the Place, The Gold Rush, The Apache Wars, The Overland Mail, The Pony Express, Bound by Rails		Don Perlin, Norman Nodel; George Evans; Reed Crandall; Joe Orlando
150A	June 1959	Royal Canadian Mounted Police	"March to Fort Whoop-Up"; "Pony soldiers"; "Indians and outlaws"; "Unrest and rebellion"; "Patrolling the prairies"; "The gold rush"; "Into the far North"; "The modern Mountie"; "Manhunt!"; "Molding a Mountie"		Sam Glanzman; Graham Ingels; Sid Check; Stan Campbell; Ray Ramsey; Norman Nodel
153A	December 1959	Men, Guns and Cattle	Horns and Hoofs, Iron Fisted Marshall, Wild Bill Hickok, The Chisholm Trail, The Lincoln County War, Dodge City Lawman, The Last Warpath, The West's Wildest Town, The Death of Tombstone, Koohoppers and Cactus Cats, The Closing Frontier		George Evans; Gerald McCann; Everett Kinstler; Norman Nodel; George Peltz
156A	June 1960	The Atomic Age	Adventure North, The Smallest Particle, Inside the Atom, The Atomic Furnace, The Magic Mineral, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, Atoms for Power, The Radioscope, Atoms and Industry, Atoms and Agriculture, Atoms and Medicine, The Healing Rays, The Atom Tomorrow		Norman Nodel; Bruno Premiani; Sam Glanzman; Everett Kinstler; George Evans
159A	December 1960	Rockets, Jets and Missiles	The Flight of the X-1, Space Talk, The Jet Is Born, Space Talk, Jet Engines, Jets Around the World, Space Talk, Rockets Through Time, Space Talk, The Wizard of Worcester, Space Talk, Rocket Engines, Don't Do It Yourself, Space Talk, Rockets and Missiles Around the World, Artificial Moons, Space Talk, Seven for Space, Space Talk, Off Into Orbit, Space Talk, Doorway Into Tomorrow		George Evans; Sam Glanzman; H. J. Kihl; Gerald McCann; Jack Abel; Gray Morrow
162A	June 1961	The War Between the States	April, 1861: Fort Sumter, The Causes, July, 1861: Bull Run, Battle Report, April, 1862: Shiloh, April, 1862: New Orleans, April–July, 1862: The Peninsula, July, 1862: Kentucky, Battle Report, June, 1863: Brandy Station, June–July, 1863: Gettysburg, April–July, 1863: Vicksburg, September–November, 1863: Chattanooga, Battle Report, May–September, 1864: Georgia, October, 1864: The Atlantic, November, 1864: New York City, April, 1865: Appomattox Court House, Final Report, Reconstruction		Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers; Sam Glanzman; Till Gooden; George Peltz; George Evans & Reed Crandall; Edd Ashe; John Tartaglione; Pete Morisi
165A	December 1961	To the Stars	Man in the Skies, Earth in Space, The Magic Eye, The Giant of Palomar, Our Neighbor—the Moon, The Copper Moon, The Inner Planets: The Gods' Messenger, The Inner Planets: The Goddess, The Inner Planets: The Green World, The Inner Planets: The Red Planet, The Giants, The Georgian Planet, Uranus, Neptune, Planet X, Pluto, Are There Other Planets?, Fiery Streaks and Tails, Figures in the Sky, Star Facts, Our Nearest Star, The Disappearing Sun, Light Years, The Universe, The Universe and Life		Angelo Torres; George Evans; Reed Crandall; Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers; Sam Glanzman; Jo Albistur; Charles Berger; Norman Nodel
166A	1962	World War II	World War II, The Fuehrer, War on the High Seas, Il Duce, The Conquest of Western Europe, The Battle of Britain, Warships and Wolf Packs, The Resistance, The Eastern Front, The Big Three, War in the Pacific, The Doolittle Raid, The Coral Sea and Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, War Leaders, Stalingrad, War Leaders, Lidice and Warsaw, The Death Camps, North Africa, War Leaders, The Italian Campaign, Blockbusters and Buzz Bombs, The Normandy Invasion, The Battle of the Bulge, Victory in Europe, War Leaders, Leyte Gulf, The Mainland War, War Leaders, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Victory in the Pacific, Crimes Against Humanity		Angelo Torres; George Evans; John Tartaglione; Norman Nodel
167A	July 1962	Prehistoric World	In Search of the Past, Survival of the Fittest, The Wonderful Earth Movie, The First Fishes, Living on Land, The Dinosaurs, Reptiles of the Sea and Air, A Missing Link, Mammals, Bones and Stones, The Treasure of Flaming Cliffs, End of an Era, The Age of the Mammals, Prehistoric Man, The Bulls of Altamira, The Dawn Men, Neanderthal Man, Homo Sapiens, Cro-Magnon Man, The Reindeer Age, The Races of Man, The Early Farmers, The Long Journeys: Into America, Into Africa, The Mixing of Peoples, Across the Pacific, The Stone Builders, The Fuegian Experiment, Primitives Today		Angelo Torres; Reed Crandall; George Evans; Norman Nodel; Jo Albistur; Gerald McCann; Norman Nodel

Thorpe & Porter new issues

Issue	Original publication	Title	Author	Adaptation	Illustrator
143	(1962)	Sail with the Devil	Daniel Defoe	Alfred Sundel	Norman Light
146	(1962)	Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Rudolf Erich Raspe		Denis Gifford
147	(1962)	Through the Looking-Glass	Lewis Carroll	Jennifer Robertson	Jennifer Robertson
148	(1962)	Nights of Terror	Wilkie Collins	Alfred Sundel	Mick Anglo
		"A Terribly Strange Bed"
		"The Signal-Man"	Charles Dickens
149	(1962)	The Gorilla Hunters	R. M. Ballantyne	Alfred Sundel
150	(1962)	The Canterville Ghost	Oscar Wilde	Alfred Sundel	Mick Anglo
156	(1962)	The Dog Crusoe	R. M. Ballantyne	Alfred Sundel	Norman Light
157	1962	The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin	Alfred Sundel
158A	(December 1962)	Doctor No	Ian Fleming	Alfred Sundel	Norman Nodel
159	(1963)	Master and Man	Leo Tolstoy	Alfred Sundel
161	(1963)	The Aeneid	Virgil	Alfred Sundel	Reed Crandall
162	(1963)	Saga of the North	Pierre Loti	Alfred Sundel	Tomás Porto
163	(June 1963)	The Argonauts	Apollonius of Rhodes	Alfred Sundel

Double Duo issues

Issue	Pub. date	Title	Author	Adaptation	Illustrator	Original publication (date)
1	1976	"Voyages to the Far East"	Fernão Mendes Pinto	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #175 (Illustrerade klassiker, 1964)
		"The Brigands"	Marie-Henri Beyle	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #172 (Illustrerade klassiker, 1964)
2	1976	"The Attack on the Mill"	Émile Zola		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #177 (Illustrerade Klassiker, 1964)
		Escape of the Inca	William H. Prescott		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #180 (Williams Förlags AB, 1965)
3	1976	March of the Ten Thousand	Xenophon	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #170 (Illustrerade Klassiker, 1964)
		Ship from Buenos Aires	Herman Melville	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #171 (Illustrerade Klassiker, 1964)
4	1976	"The Open Boat"	Stephen Crane	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #169 (Illustrerade klassiker, 1964)
		The Denver Express	Augustus Allen Hayes	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #179 (Williams Förlags AB, 1965)
5	1976	Sailing Uncharted Waters	Antonio Pigafetta (journal); John Fiske (book)		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #182 (Williams Förlags AB, 1965)
		The Burma Road			Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #202 (Williams Förlags AB, 1969)
6	1976	"The Blue Hotel"	Stephen Crane	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #173 (Illustrerade klassiker, 1964)
		A Terrible Vengeance	Nikolai Gogol	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #167 (Illustrerade klassiker, 1964)
7	1976	Battle of Jerusalem	Flavius Josephus		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #201 (Williams Förlags AB, 1969)
		The Castle of Otranto	Horace Walpole		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #174 (Illustrerade Klassiker, 1964)
8	1976	The Conquest of Peru	William H. Prescott	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #166 (Illustrerade Klassiker, 1964)
		The Wandering Horseman	Nikolai Leskov		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #181 (Williams Förlags AB, 1965)
9	1977	The Death of Captain Cook	James Cook	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #165 (Illustrerade klassiker, 1964)
		The Young Carthaginian	G. A. Henty	Alfred Sundel	Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #204 (Williams Förlags AB, 1970)
10	1977	Quest for the Grail	Wolfram von Eschenbach		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #203 (Williams Förlags AB, 1969)
		The Seven That Were Hanged	Leonid Andreyev		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #205 (Williams Förlags AB, 1970)
11	1977	Wreck of Sao Jao	Bernardo Gomes de Brito		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #188 (Williams Förlags AB, 1966)
		Warlord of Mexico	Diego Durán		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #187 (Williams Förlags AB, 1966)
12	1977	Martin Eden	Jack London		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #192 (Williams Förlags AB, 1967)
		"Apostle of the Indies" (based on The Discovery of America)	John Fiske		Spanish studio	Illustrerade klassiker #191 (Williams Förlags AB, 1966)

First Comics run

The authorship is based on the Grand Comics Database.^[62]

Issue	Pub. date	Title	Author	Adaptation	Illustrator
1	Feb. 1990	The Raven and Other Poems	Edgar Allan Poe	Gahan Wilson	Gahan Wilson
2	Feb. 1990	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	Rick Geary	Rick Geary
3	Feb. 1990	Through the Looking-Glass	Lewis Carroll	Kyle Baker	Kyle Baker
4	Feb. 1990	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	Dan Chichester & Bill Sienkiewicz	Bill Sienkiewicz
5	Mar. 1990	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	Steven Grant	Tom Mandrake
6	Mar. 1990	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	P. Craig Russell	Jill Thompson
7	Apr. 1990	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas (père)	Steven Grant	Dan Spiegle
8	Apr. 1990	Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	John K. Snyder III	John K. Snyder III
9	May 1990	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	Mike Ploog	Mike Ploog
10	June 1990	The Call of the Wild	Jack London	Charles Dixon	Ricardo Villagran
11	July 1990	Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving	Jeffrey Busch	Jeffrey Busch
12	Aug. 1990	The Island of Doctor Moreau	H. G. Wells	Steven Grant	Eric Vincent
13	Sept. 1990	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	Rick Geary	Rick Geary
14	Oct. 1990	The Fall of the House of Usher	Edgar Allan Poe	P. Craig Russell	P. Craig Russell and Jay Geldhof
15	Nov. 1990	The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories	O. Henry	Gary Gianni	Gary Gianni
16	Dec. 1990	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	Joe Staton	Joe Staton
17	Jan. 1991	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	Pat Boyette	Pat Boyette
18	Feb. 1991	The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works	Ambrose Bierce	Gahan Wilson	Gahan Wilson
19	Feb. 1991	The Secret Agent	Joseph Conrad	John K. Snyder III	John K. Snyder III
20	Mar. 1991	The Invisible Man	H. G. Wells	Rick Geary	Rick Geary
21	Mar. 1991	Cyrano de Bergerac	Edmond Rostand	Peter David	Kyle Baker
22	Apr. 1991	The Jungle Books	Rudyard Kipling	Jeffrey Busch	Jeffrey Busch
23	Apr. 1991	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	Sam Wray	Pat Boyette
24	May 1991	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Dean Motter	Dean Motter
25	May 1991	Ivanhoe	Sir Walter Scott	Mark Wayne Harris	Ray Lago
26	June 1991	Aesop's Fables	Aesop	Eric Vincent	Eric Vincent
27	June 1991	The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	Peter Kuper	Peter Kuper

Acclaim Books new issues

Issue	Pub. date	Title	Author	Adaptation	Illustrator(s)
59	February 1998	Henry IV, Part 1	William Shakespeare	Gregory Feeley	Pat Broderick
61	February 1998	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass	Len Wein & Christine Vallada	Jamal Igle, Ravil Lopez, and Mike DeCarlo
62	February 1998	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Baroness Orczy	Madeleine Robins	Pat Broderick & Ralph Reese

PapercutzClassics Illustrated Deluxe graphic novels

Volume	Pub. date	Title	Author	Adaptation	Illustrator(s)
1	2008	The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	Michael Plessix	Michael Plessix
2	2008	Tales from the Brothers Grimm	The Brothers Grimm	Mazan, Philip Petit, and Cecile Chicault	Mazan, Philip Petit, and Cecile Chicault
3	2009	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	Marion Mousse	Marion Mousse
4	2009	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	Jean-David Morvan and Frederique Voulyze	Severine Le Fevebvre
5	2010	Treasure Island[63]	Robert Louis Stevenson	David Chauvel	Fred Simon
6	2011	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas (père)	Jean-David Morvan and Michel Dufranne	Rubén
7	2011	Around the World in Eighty Days	Jules Verne	Loïc Dauvillier	Aude Soleilhac
8	2012	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	Loïc Dauvillier	Olivier Deloye
9	2012	Scrooge: A Christmas Carol and "Mugby Junction"	Charles Dickens	Rodolphe	Estelle Meyrand
10	2013	"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe	Jean-David Morvan and Corbeyran	Fabrice Druet and Paul Marcel
11	2014	The Sea-Wolf	Jack London	Riff Reb's	Riff Reb's
12	2014	The Monkey God	Wu Cheng'en	Jean-David Morvan and Yann Le Gal	Jian Yi

Classic Comic Store [UK], 2008 onwards run

The authorship is based on the information held by Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections Division in their Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection^[55][56] and/or the copyright information inside the books.

The titles and publication dates are obtained from a personal collection.^[d]

Issue	Publication Date	Title	Author	US Issue
1	October 2008	The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	124
2	November 2008	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	23
3	December 2008	Robin Hood	(Uncredited)[64]	7
4	January 2009	The Man in the Iron Mask	Alexandre Dumas	54
5	February 2009	Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	134
6	March 2009	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne	138
7	April 2009	Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	9
8	May 2009	The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling[e]	83
9	June 2009	Mutiny on the Bounty	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	100
10	July 2009	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	59
11	August 2009	Knights of the Round Table	(Uncredited)[65]	108
12	September 2009	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	39
13	October 2009	Frankenstein	Mary W. Shelley	26
14	November 2009	The Time Machine	H. G. Wells	133
15	December 2009	Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	53
16	January 2010	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	5
17	February 2010	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	128
18	March 2010	The Invisible Man	H. G. Wells	153
19	April 2010	Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	19
20	May 2010	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	43
21	June 2010	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	64
22	July 2010	Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	49
23	August 2010	Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	60
24	September 2010	Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	46
25	October 2010	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	1
26	November 2010	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea	Jules Verne	47
27	December 2010	Ben Hur	Lew Wallace	147
28	January 2011	The Last Days of Pompeii	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	35
29	February 2011	Ivanhoe	Sir Walter Scott	2
30	March 2011	Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	68
31	May 2011	Around the World in 80 Days	Jules Verne	69
32	June 2011	Nicholas Nickleby	Charles Dickens	New title[CCS notes 1]
33	August 2011	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	13
34	October 2011	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	4
35	November 2011	Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	6
36	December 2011	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo	18
37	January 2012	A Study in Scarlet (also contains The Speckled Band)	Arthur Conan Doyle	110
38	February 2012	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	3
39	April 2012	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	99
40	May 2012	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	58
41	June 2012	First Men in the Moon	H. G. Wells	144
42	July 2012	The Ox-Bow Incident	Walter Van Tilburg Clark	125
43	September 2012	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	10
44	October 2012	The 39 Steps	John Buchan	New title[CCS notes 2]
45	September 2013	Cleopatra	H. Rider Haggard	161
46	September 2013	The Gold Bug and Other Stories (consists of "The Gold-Bug," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Cask of Amontillado")	Edgar Allan Poe	84
47	September 2013	Off on a Comet	Jules Verne	149
48	September 2013	The Argonauts	Apollonius of Rhodes	Not issued in the US[f]
49	August 2016	A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare	87
50	May 2018[CCS notes 3]	The Downfall	Émile Zola	126
51	May 2018[CCS notes 3]	The Iliad	Homer	77
52	May 2018[CCS notes 3]	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	33[66]
53	May 2018[CCS notes 3]	The Odyssey	Homer	81
54	March 2019[CCS notes 4]	Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	50
55	March 2019[CCS notes 4]	The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope	76
56	October 2017[CCS notes 5]	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	95
57	August 2016	Tom Brown's School Days	Thomas Hughes	45
58	August 2016	The Food of the Gods	H.G. Wells	160
59	August 2016	Abraham Lincoln	(Uncredited)	142
60	August 2016	Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Franklin	65
61	August 2016	Davy Crockett[67]	David Crockett	129
62	August 2016	Rob Roy	Sir Walter Scott	118
63	March 2017	Buffalo Bill	William F. Cody[68]	106
64	March 2017	The Adventures of Kit Carson	(Uncredited)[69]	112
65	March 2017	The Oregon Trail	Francis Parkman	72
66	March 2017	The Pioneers	James Fenimore Cooper	37
67	March 2017	Wild Bill Hickok	Ira Zweifach (adapted by)	121
68	October 2017[CCS notes 5]	Daniel Boone	John Bakeless	96
69	October 2017[CCS notes 5]	Joan of Arc	Samuel Willinsky (adapted by)	78
70	October 2017[CCS notes 5]	The Song of Hiawatha	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	57
71	October 2017[CCS notes 5]	The Man Who Laughs	Victor Hugo	71
72	March 2019[CCS notes 4]	The Aeneid	Virgil (adapted from John Dryden's English translation)	170[CCS notes 6]
73	March 2019[CCS notes 4]	Through the Looking Glass	Lewis Carroll	First Comics #3
74	June 2022	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	11
75	June 2022	3 Famous Mysteries (The Sign of the Four, The Flayed Hand, The Murders in the Rue Morgue)	Arthur Conan Doyle/Guy de Maupassant/Edgar Allan Poe	21
76	June 2022	Arabian Nights	(Uncredited)	8
77	June 2022	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Mark Twain	24
78	July 2023[CCS notes 7]	The Black Arrow	Robert Louis Stevenson	31
79	July 2023[CCS notes 7]	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	89
80	July 2023[CCS notes 7]	The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	98
81	July 2023[CCS notes 7]	The Deerslayer	James Fenimore Cooper	17

Classic Comic Store UK run – Notes

In other media

The Classics Illustrated branding was on a series of television films produced from 1977 to 1982 by Schick Sunn Classics; one of the executives at Shick Sunn Classics was Patrick Frawley, who at that point owned the Classics Illustrated brand:

• 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)
• The Adventures of Nellie Bly (1981)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1981)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)

References in popular culture

• In the film Major League, Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger) reads the Classics Illustrated edition of Moby Dick in an effort to impress his former girlfriend, Lynn (Rene Russo) in the hopes that he might win her back (which he eventually does). Later on in the film, other teammates like Rick Vaughn (Charlie Sheen), Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes), and Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen) start reading other Classics Illustrated titles, such as The Song of Hiawatha, The Deerslayer, and Crime and Punishment.
• A copy of the Classics Illustrated version of David Copperfield figures in the film Heaven Help Us. At one point, the character Caesar (Malcolm Danare) is baffled by why a book report written by his friend Rooney (Kevin Dillon) contains continued references to W.C. Fields instead of Wilkins Micawber. Rooney responds by displaying the cover of the comic book, which depicts Fields as Mr. Micawber, based on his role in the 1935 film.
• Classics Illustrated #108, Knights of the Round Table (June 1953, Gilberton) is mentioned in the Warner Bros./CW show Supernatural season 8, episode 21: "The Great Escapist" (written by Ben Edlund, original air date 1 May 2013). Sam Winchester, ill and delirious, recalls to his brother Dean the memory of Dean reading the story to him when they were both small children. Sam laments that as he thought of the knights' purity, it made him realize that, even though he was a child, he was impure – and that he always knew deep down he was impure.
• In Arundhati Roy's book The God of Small Things (1997), "Rahel wasn't sure what she suffered from, but occasionally she practised sad faces, and sighing in the mirror.//'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done', she would say to herself sadly. That was Rahel being Sydney Carton being Charles Darnay, as he stood on the steps, waiting to be guillotined, in the Classics Illustrated comic's version of A Tale of Two Cities".

Cover gallery

• Some Classic Comics issues (and one Classics Illustrated)
• 
  Three Musketeers
  Issue #1.
• 
  Ivanhoe
  Issue #2.
• 
  The Count of Monte Cristo
  Issue #3.
• 
  The Last of the Mohicans
  Issue #4.
• 
  Moby Dick
  Issue #5.
• 
  A Tale of Two Cities
  Issue #6.
• 
  Robin Hood
  Issue #7.
• 
  Arabian Nights
  Issue #8.
• 
  Les Misérables
  Issue #9.
• 
  Robinson Crusoe
  Issue #10.
• 
  Don Quixote
  Issue #11.
• 
  Rip Van Winkle
  Issue #12.
• 
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Issue #13.
• 
  Westward Ho!
  Issue #14
• 
  Uncle Tom's Cabin
  Issue #15
• 
  Gulliver's Travels
  Issue #16.
• 
  The Deerslayer
  Issue #17.
• 
  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  Issue #18.
• 
  Huckleberry Finn
  Issue #19.
• 
  The Corsican Brothers
  Issue #20.
• 
  Three Famous Mysteries
  Issue #21.
• 
  Pathfinder
  Issue #22.
• 
  Oliver Twist
  Issue #23.
• 
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  Issue #24.
• 
  Two Years Before the Mast
  Issue #25.
• 
  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
  Issue #26.
• 
  The Adventures of Marco Polo
  Issue #27.
• 
  Michael Strogoff
  Issue #28.
• 
  The Prince and the Pauper
  Issue #29.
• 
  The Moonstone
  Issue #30.
• 
  The Black Arrow
  Issue #31.
• 
  Lorna Doone
  Issue #32.
• 
  The Call of the Wild
  Issue #91.

See also

Other companies or series producing comic adaptations of literature:

• Amar Chitra Katha – Indian publisher producing comic book adaptations of Indian legends and epics
• Classical Comics – British publisher producing graphic novel adaptations of the great works of literature, including Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, and Charles Dickens
• Graphic Classics – American anthology series produced from 2002 to 2016.
• Joyas Literarias Juveniles [es] – from the Spanish publisher Editorial Bruguera, produced 270 adaptations of classic stories from 1970 to 1983. 28 of these have been translated into English and published as King Classics.
• Manga de Dokuha - Japanese series of manga versions of classic literature. Produced 139 adaptations of literary classics from 2007 to 2017.
• Marvel Classics Comics – Marvel Comics successor to Classics Illustrated that operated 1976–1978, reprinting some Pendulum Press titles and do a number of their own original adaptations
• Marvel Illustrated – Marvel Comics imprint founded in 2007 specializing in comic book adaptations of literary classics
• PAICO Classics – Indian series from the mid-1980s reprinting Pendulum Press's titles from the 1970s
• Pendulum Press – picked up comic book adaptations of classic literature in 1973
• Self Made Hero – British company producing adaptations of literature, including some of the same Shakespeare plays as Classical Comics

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