Classics Illustrated comic books issue 1
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Issue #1
Published Jun 1949 by Classics Illustrated.$4.30
View scan- 2 1/4" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached.
Black Beauty, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 62, 6/49). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
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Benjamin Franklin, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 64, 11/49). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
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Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 94, with 3/52 date). Treachery and murder come to arouse a sleepy town along the banks of the mighty Mississippi River in the days just before the Civil War. Here is a gripping story of the Old South, written by one of America's greatest story-tellers. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jul 1954 by Classics Illustrated.$5.00
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$4.40
$4.40
- 3 3/4" Spine split from top. Chew.
$4.40
Wild Bill Hickok, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 122, with 7/54 date). Into the lawless West rode United States Marshal James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill. A gentleman, always, Wild Bill wore a frock coat, string tie...and a pair of pistols. This is the story of the famous marshal and how he tamed the Western badmen by shooting straighter, cleaner and faster. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jan 1958 by Classics Illustrated.$7.60
$6.70
$4.80
$2.65
Abraham Lincoln, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 142, with 1/58 date). Abraham Lincoln grew up on the rough, brawling American frontier. He fought, wrestled and swung an ax as well as any man. He went to school less than a year in all his life. Yet the unschooled boy of the log cabin grew up to be one of the wisest and greatest of Presidents. During the dark hours of the Civil War, he saved the union from destruction. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jan 1959 by Classics Illustrated.$7.20
$7.20
The Buccaneer, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Pencils by George Evans. (HRN 148, with 1/59 date). Swashbuckling adventurer Jean Lafitte was a pirate king. In 1814, he and his men all but owned and ran New Orleans. But when the British offered him $30,000 and a commission to help them attack the city, he refused. Instead he gave his help to the struggling young republic, America. With courage and conviction he fought with General Andrew Jackson and the American Army at the Bloody Battle of New Orleans. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Nov 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$12.00
$9.00
The Octopus, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Gray Morrow and George Evans, cover by L.B. Cole. (HRN 159, with 11/60 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
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Master of the World, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 163, with 7/61 date). The strange occurrences began with the explosions from the crater of a mountain called the Great Eyrie. Then, a strange vehicle, moving with lightning speed, appeared in the United States. But when a mysterious underwater craft was sighted, John Strock, head inspector of the Federal police, found that all these happenings were caused by a single machine, which could fly above the earth, sail or ride on its surface, and dive into the water's depths. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jan 1947 by Classics Illustrated.$245.00
View scans- Cover coming loose at single center staple.
$45.00
View scans- 5" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation. Tape and glue on interior cover.
$19.75
View scan- Interior is complete. Missing back cover.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1st Printing, Classics Comics. Kiefer cover, contains Hound of the Baskervilles & A Study in Scarlet, 68 pgs. (HRN 33, 1/47). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
Published May 1947 by Classics Illustrated.$4.50
- Centerfold detached. Water damage.
$4.50
- Rings of water damage.
The Pioneers, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 37, 5/47). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
Published Apr 1950 by Classics Illustrated.$8.99
- Cover loose at both staples.
$8.99
- 1 1/2" spine split from bottom.
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- Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Back cover missing.
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The Pilot, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 71, 4/50). Cover price $0.10.
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Cyrano de Bergerac, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 78, 1/51). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
Published Jun 1952 by Classics Illustrated.$7.00
View scan- Cover oxidation. Residue.
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Daniel Boone, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 97, with 6/52 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
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- 2 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached.
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King Solomon's Mines, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 96, with 7/52 date). Through steaming jungles, facing danger at every turn came the expedition - three men and a native with only a crude, hand-drawn map to guide them in the unknown depths of darkest Africa. Their destination - King Solomon's Mines; their destiny - thrilling adventure, a fabulous fortune in jewels...and death. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Nov 1952 by Classics Illustrated.$7.00
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William Tell, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 101, with 11/52 date). The year 1307 finds the freedom-loving Swiss under the harsh rule of Austria. They are forced to bow before an arrogant governor's cap; they are humiliated and deprived of the personal freedoms. William Tell, by defying the tyrant governor's restrictive laws, through his unyielding belief in freedom, leads his people in rebellion against oppression. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1A
Published Jun 1953 by Classics Illustrated.$5.30
$2.65
- Centerfold missing, affects story and art.
Knights of the Round Table, 1st Printing, Edition 1A, Painted Cover. Art by Alex Blum. Comic book adaptation of the tales of Arthur, Launcelot, Gareth, Galahad, and other knights of the round table. Issue also has text stories on "Stories of Early America," "Our American Heritage," and "Stories from the World of Sports." (HRN 108, with 6/53 date) Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1B
Published Jun 1953 by Classics Illustrated.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Knights of the Round Table, 1st Printing, Edition 1B, Painted Cover. Art by Alex Blum. Comic book adaptation of the tales of Arthur, Launcelot, Gareth, Galahad, and other knights of the round table. Issue also has text stories on "Stories of Early America," "Our American Heritage," and "Stories from the World of Sports." (HRN 109, with 6/53 date) Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Nov 1954 by Classics Illustrated.$11.00
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- 2 3/4" Spine split from bottom.
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- Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Back cover missing.Staple rust.
Fang and Claw, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 124, with 11/54 date). Cover price $0.15.
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The Covered Wagon, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Norman Nodel. (HRN 131, with 3/56 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jan 1957 by Classics Illustrated.$9.60
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Lord Jim, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by George Evans. (HRN 136, with 1/57 date). To the natives of the jungle village where he chose to conceal himself, he was known as Lord Jim. He had, of course, another name, be he was anxious that it should not be known. This was not meant to hide a personality, but a naked and ugly fact. For Jim, as a young man, had made one error. And the thought of what he had done tortured him until he died. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Sep 1957 by Classics Illustrated.$4.80
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- Full length spine split. Cover oxidation with chipping.
On Jungle Trails, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 140, with 9/57 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jul 1958 by Classics Illustrated.$9.60
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The Crisis, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by George Evans. (HRN 143, with 7/58 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
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With Fire and Sword, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by George Woodbridge. (HRN 143, with 9/58 date). The year 1647 in Poland was a mysterious year in which signs in the heavens and on the earth forecast a great war. The Following year, the fiercest cavalry in Europe, the Cossacks, rose up against their Polish masters. Allied with the peasants and Tartars and armed with fire and sword, they fought one of the bloodies revolutions in history. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Mar 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$12.00
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The Lion of the North, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Gerald McCann cover. (HRN 154, with 3/60 date). From 1618 to 1648, the Thirty Years's War swept through Europe, bringing death and destruction throughout most of the northern countries. In 1630, the twelfth year of the war, young Malcolm Graeme joined a Scottish regiment fighting with King Gustavus of Sweden. In a series of stirring battles and adventures, Malcolm proved he was worthy of serving under the great Lion of the North. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
$11.00
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- INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing, interrupts art and story. 1 1/2" spine split from bottom. Water damage. Staple rust with migration.
The Queen's Necklace, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Gray Morrow art. (HRN 164, with 1/62 date). The three million dollar necklace had disappeared. The jewelers had delivered it to Queen Maria Antoinette. But she said she had sent it back, and she showed a receipt for the jewelers. The jewelers said they had never received the necklace. They produced a letter for the Queen accepting the necklace and promising payment. Who had stolen Maria Antoinette's necklace? Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
$18.00
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Last Days of Pompeii, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover, 10 cent cover price. H.C. Kiefer cover and art. (HRN 35, 3/47). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
Published Jun 1951 by Classics Illustrated.$16.00
View scan- 1" cumulative spine split. Water spotting.
$9.60
$9.60
$7.20
- Centerfold detached.
$6.00
$6.00
The Gold Bug and Other Stories, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 85, with 6/51 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Published Sep 1951 by Classics Illustrated. -
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A Study in Scarlet, 1st printing, Painted Cover. Sherlock Holmes stars in "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." Art by Seymour Moskowitz. Comic book adaptation of the classic detective story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to the world. Issue also has an comic book adaptation of another Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and a text biography on Doyle and text stories on "Our American Heritage" and "Stories from the World of Sports." (HRN 111, with 8/53 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Sep 1956 by Classics Illustrated.$9.00
$10.00
Romeo and Juliet, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by George Evans. (HRN 134, with 9/56 date). Cover price $0.15.
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The Little Savage, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by George Evans. (HRN 136, with 3/57 date). There is more than one story of a man being cast away on a desolate island and struggling to keep alive. But this is the first account of a boy being left alone on an uninhabited island. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jul 1957 by Classics Illustrated.$9.60
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In the Reign of Terror, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by George Evans. (HRN 139, with 7/57 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Nov 1958 by Classics Illustrated.$14.50
View scan- Cover oxidation.
$16.25
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$4.90
$2.65
- INTERIOR COMPLETE. 4 1/2" cumulative spine split. 2" tear on front cover. Cover detached. Mold. Cover oxidation.
Ben Hur, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Joe Orlando. (HRN 147, with 11/58 date). At the time of Jesus, young Judah Ben-Hur, son of a prince of Jerusalem, had wealth, family and power. In a day he was stripped of this by Messala, a Roman. Through years of toil as a galley slave, Ben-Hur thought of nothing by vengeance. Then one day his wish was granted. He met Mesalla in a chariot race. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Jan 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$5.00
The Conspiracy of Pontiac, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 154, with 1/60 date). The bloody French and Indian War was over. Men of two rival nations, France and England, had fought and died for possession of the new continent, America. The British had won, but the French flag still floated over several of their western outposts. It remained for the British to take possession of these forts. Their way lay through trackless forests full of hostile Indian tribes. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Sep 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$12.00
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The Conspirators, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 156, with 9/60 date). When Louis XIV died in 1715, his great grandson came to the throne at the age of five. A battle over who should be regent and rule the country until the king was old enough developed between two parties - one led by Philippe, the Duc d'Orleans, and the other by the Duc de Maine. Although Philippe became regent, the followers of his rival did not remain idle. A young man, Raoul d'Harmental, was committed to kidnap the regent until, by strange action of fate, Raoul's very life depended upon the man he was to have kidnapped. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Feb 1949 by Classics Illustrated.$2.65
$2.65
- Full length spine split. 5" lateral tear on front cover.
The Toilers of the Sea, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 55, 2/49). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
Published Jul 1951 by Classics Illustrated.$2.65
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The Sea Wolf, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Jack London story about Humphrey Van Weyden and Maud Brewster's perils aboard a ship captained by the cruel and vicious Wolf Larsen. Issue also has a text biography of London and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 85, with 7/51 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1A
Published May 1952 by Classics Illustrated.$10.00
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All Quiet on the Western Front, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 96, with 5/52 date). The time is World War I - the scene, the battlefield, the story, told by one who was in the midst of it. Here is the unglorious, the unexciting, the unglamorous side of war and death...here is the story of the soldiers who fight. Here is the soul-stirring drama of the frontlines. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1B
Published May 1952 by Classics Illustrated.$28.00
View scanAll Quiet on the Western Front, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 99, with 5/52 date). The time is World War I - the scene, the battlefield, the story, told by one who was in the midst of it. Here is the unglorious, the unexciting, the unglamorous side of war and death...here is the story of the soldiers who fight. Here is the soul-stirring drama of the frontlines. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
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The White Company, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 101, with 12/52 date). Into the midst of an adventure-seeking band of soldiers, known as The White Company, comes twenty-year-old Alleyne Edricson. For the first time, he steps out into the world of men, away from the protection of the monastery where he was raised. Neither serf nor nobleman, neither soldier nor farmer, the scholarly youth quickly learns the skills of knights in order to survive in a strange world of jousts, tourneys and fierce battles. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Sep 1953 by Classics Illustrated.$2.80
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The Talisman, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by H.C. Kiefer. (HRN 112, with 9/53 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
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- Centerfold detached at one staple.
- 1" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust with migration.Cover detached at one staple.
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View scan- 4" Spine split from base of comic.
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Soldiers of Fortune, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 120, with 5/54 date). Like fearless knights of old, modern soldiers of fortune go forth seeking glory and adventure. No cause is too small, no sacrifice too great for these men who live only to be heroes. This is their story as it unfolds in the center of a blazing South American revolution. Cover price $0.15.
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Published May 1956 by Classics Illustrated. -
Issue #1
Published Nov 1956 by Classics Illustrated.$10.00
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Waterloo, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Graham Ingels. (HRN 135, with 11/56 date). In 1815, Napoleon escaped from exile on the island of Elba and regained his position as Emperor of France. This panicked the countries of Europe. They feared he would again attempt to conquer them. On June 18, Napoleon's army met the English and the Prussians for the decisive battle at Waterloo. When it was over, 50,000 men had perished. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Mar 1958 by Classics Illustrated.$10.00
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Kim, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Joe Orlando. (HRN 143, with 3/58 date). At thirteen, Kim led a life of perfect freedom. An English orphan, he grew up by himself in the wonderful walled city of Lahore, India. Burned dark by the sun, speaking the native language, Kim lived on terms of perfect equality with beggars, horse traders and holy men. Then one day he met a Tibetan Lama and together they set out, searching for one special thing. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1A
Published Jan 1961 by Classics Illustrated.$24.00
View scanThe Food of the Gods, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (The only difference between the "A" and "B" 1st printings is the HRN number). (HRN 159). Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood invented it between them and in their first enthusiasm called it the Food of the Gods. It was in every way a most remarkable substance, for it was to produce a new race of men. Normal people were frightened to discover wasps as big a barn owls, creeping plants as tall as pine trees and rats as big as horses. But the serious trouble began with the children raised on the Food of the Gods. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1B
Published Jan 1961 by Classics Illustrated.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
The Food of the Gods, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (The only difference between the "A" and "B" 1st printings is the HRN number). (HRN 160). Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood invented it between them and in their first enthusiasm called it the Food of the Gods. It was in every way a most remarkable substance, for it was to produce a new race of men. Normal people were frightened to discover wasps as big a barn owls, creeping plants as tall as pine trees and rats as big as horses. But the serious trouble began with the children raised on the Food of the Gods. Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published 1961 by Classics Illustrated.$6.00
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The Cossack Chief, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 164, with NO date). In the fifteenth century, hot-blooded Cossacks banded together in southern Russia. One Cossack chief, Taras Bulba, took his sons out to fight as soon as they had finished school. His younger son fell in love with an enemy girl and, to defend her people, rode out against Taras Bulba. In battle the two faced each other, patriot father and traitor son. Slowly the father aimed his gun. Would Taras Bulbas shoot his own son? Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1-1ST
Published 2009 by Classic Comic Store Ltd..This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The War of the Worlds!"
Based on the story by H. G. Wells. Art and cover by Lou Cameron.
Wells' science-fiction of the Martian invasion of Britain, told through the eyes of an ordinary man. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, providing an excellent introduction for younger readers. Also includes theme discussions and study questions.
Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 48 pages, full color.
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Issue #1-REP
Published Dec 2014 by Classic Comic Store Ltd..This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "The War of the Worlds!"
Based on the story by H. G. Wells. Art and cover by Lou Cameron.
Wells' science-fiction of the Martian invasion of Britain, told through the eyes of an ordinary man. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, providing an excellent introduction for younger readers. Also includes theme discussions and study questions.
Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 48 pages, full color.
Cover price $9.95.
