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Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated was an American series of comic books based on classic literature. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial.)

Publication History

Classics Illustrated began in 1941 as Classic Comics, and the first 34 issues were originally published under that title. The series was retitled Classics Illustrated in 1947, and previously published issues were reprinted under that title. Most issues were reprinted multiple times, sometimes in revised form (and sometimes with fewer pages than the original). The first actively copyright-renewed issue is no. 33, © 1947. We know of no actively copyright-renewed contributions. (More details) The original run ended in 1969, though the name has also been used more recently for new adaptations by other publishers. Comics below are listed in series order, using either the year of the specific edition (if known), the copyright date (if given), or else the year of the original printing.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1941: The Internet Archive has number 1, "The Three Musketeers", based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1969: The Internet Archive has number 2, "Ivanhoe", based on the novel by Walter Scott. This is a reprint under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1942: The Internet Archive has number 3, "The Count of Monte Cristo", based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1942: The Internet Archive has number 4, "The Last of the Mohicans", based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1942: The Internet Archive has number 5, "Moby Dick", based on the novel by Herman Melville. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1942: The Internet Archive has number 7, "Robin Hood", based on the English legends. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1943: The Internet Archive has number 8, "Arabian Nights", based on the Middle Eastern folk tales. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1968: The Internet Archive has number 9, "Les Miserables", based on the novel by Victor Hugo. This is a reprint under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1943: The Internet Archive has number 10, "Robinson Crusoe", based on the novel by Daniel Defoe. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1944: The Internet Archive has number 11, "Don Quixote", based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1944: The Internet Archive has number 12, "Rip van Winkle, and The Headless Horseman", based on two stories by Washington Irving. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1943: The Internet Archive has number 13, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1943: The Internet Archive has number 14, "Westward Ho!", based on the novel by Charles Kingsley. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1969: The Internet Archive has number 16, "Gulliver's Travels", based on the novel by Jonathan Swift. This is a reprint under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1944: The Internet Archive has number 17, "The Deerslayer", based on the novel by James Feminore Cooper. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1963: The Internet Archive has number 18, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", based on the novel by Victor Hugo. This is a reprint under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1944: The Internet Archive has number 19, "Huckleberry Finn", based on the novel by Mark Twain. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1945: The Internet Archive has number 20, "The Corsican Brothers", based on the novella by Alexandre Dumas. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1945: The Internet Archive has number 21, "3 Famous Mysteries", based on stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, and Edgar Allan Poe. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1945: The Internet Archive has number 23, "Oliver Twist", based on the novel by Charles Dickens. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1971: The Internet Archive has number 24, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", based on the novel by Mark Twain. This is a reprint under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1945: The Internet Archive has number 25, "Two Years Before the Mast", based on the novel by Richard Henry Dana. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1945: The Internet Archive has number 26, "Frankenstein", based on the novel by Mary Shelley. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1946: The Internet Archive has number 27, "The Adventures of Marco Polo", based on Marco Polo's accounts of his journeys. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1963: The Internet Archive has number 28, "Michael Strogoff", based on the novel by Jules Verne. This is a reprint under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1946: The Internet Archive has number 30, "The Moonstone", based on the novel by Wilkie Collins. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1946: The Internet Archive has number 31, "The Black Arrow", based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1946: The Internet Archive has number 32, "Lorna Doone", based on the novel by R. D. Blackmore. This is a reprint of unknown date under the "Classics Illustrated" title.
• 1947: The Internet Archive has number 35, "The Last Days of Pompeii", based on the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. This is a reprint of unknown date.
• 1949: The Internet Archive has number 64, "Treasure Island", based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• 1949: The Internet Archive has number 65, "A Biography of Benjamin Franklin", based on Franklin's autobiography.
• 1949: The Internet Archive has number 66, "The Cloister and the Hearth", based on the novel by Charles Reade.
• 1950: The Internet Archive has number 77, "The Iliad", based on the epic poem by Homer.
• 1950: The Internet Archive has number 78, "Joan of Arc".
• 1951: The Internet Archive has number 79, "Cyrano de Bergerac", based on the play by Edmond Rostand.
• 1951: The Internet Archive has number 80, "White Fang", based on the novel by Jack London.
• 1951: The Internet Archive has number 83, "The Jungle Book", based on the stories by Rudyard Kipling.
• 1951: The Internet Archive has number 85, "Jack London's Sea Wolf", based on the novel by Jack London.
• 1969: The Internet Archive has number 87, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", based on the play by William Shakespeare.
• 1969: The Internet Archive has number 105, "From the Earth to the Moon", based on the novel by Jules Verne.
• 1954: The Internet Archive has number 116, "The Bottle Imp", based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• 1954: The Internet Archive has number 118, "Rob Roy", based on the novel by Walter Scott.
• 1954: The Internet Archive has number 119, "Soldiers of Fortune", based on the novel by Richard Harding Davis.
• 1955: The Internet Archive has number 124, "The War of the Worlds", based on the novel by H.G. Wells.
• 1968: The Internet Archive has number 126, "The Downfall", based on the novel by Emile Zola.
• 1968: The Internet Archive has number 127, "The King of the Mountains", based on the novel by Edmond About.
• 1970: The Internet Archive has number 128, "Macbeth", based on the play by William Shakespeare.
• 1955: The Internet Archive has number 129, "Davy Crockett".
• 1968: The Internet Archive has number 164, "The Cossack Chief", based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol.

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