Classics Illustrated
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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2d ed.
By William B. Jones, Jr.atrick Frawley (1923–1998), like Albert Kanter, was a suc- cessful entrepreneur. A colorful man “given,” as his New York Times obituary put it, “to instant and excessive enthusiasms,”1 he owned a variety of businesses at one time or ...
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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History
By William B. Jones"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 ...
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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History
By William B. Jones, Jr.This book features additional material on the 70-year history of Classics Illustrated and the careers and contributions of such artists as Alex A. Blum, Lou Cameron, George Evans, Henry C. Kiefer, Gray Morrow, Rudolph Palais, and Louis ...
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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, with Illustrations
By William B. JonesFrom 1941 to 1971, the well-loved yet controversial Classics Illustrated series brought abridged, comics-style versions of literary masterpieces such as Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Goethe's Faust, and Hugo's Les Miserables...
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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 3d Ed
By William Bryan JonesIn its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic-book adaptations of literary masterpieces in even greater depth, with twice the number of color plates as in the second ...