12 Facts About Classics Illustrated

Since then, the Classics Illustrated brand has been used to create new comic book adaptations.

Classics Illustrated 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.

Classics Illustrated benefitted from nationwide distribution beginning in late 1951, and Kanter began promoting the series as an educational tool.

Classics Illustrated lost its second-class mailing permit; and cheap paperbacks, Cliff's Notes, and television drew readers away from the series.

Classics Illustrated Junior featured Albert Lewis Kanter's comic book adaptations of fairy and folk tale, myth and legends.

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In 1953, Classics Illustrated Junior debuted with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; the line eventually numbered 77 issues, ending publication in 1971.

In 1990, 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.

Classics Illustrated continues to be published throughout the world in various languages through license from First Classics.

In 2003, Toronto's Jack Lake Productions revived Classics Illustrated Junior, creating new remastered artwork from the original editions.

Classics Illustrated released 204 issues of the title from 1956 to 1972.

Classics Illustrated told subscribers that they were planning on producing four issues at a time, but not on a specified time scale.

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:.