Classics illustrated: a cultural history

"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 educational series encompassing folklore, mythology, history, and science; and the unsuccessful attempts to revive the series in the 1990s"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction: "Good stories" -- Albert Kanter's dream -- Of Musketeers and Mohicans: The jacquet shop -- Louis Zansky: the painter's touch -- Eccentricity abounding: the war years -- Arnold Lorne Hicks: transitional figure -- Enter Iger: the fiction house artists -- Henry Carl Kiefer and the classics house style -- Alex A. Blum: "a prince of a man" -- A "newer, truer name": the late forties -- Blood, sweat, and Rudy Palais -- Painted covers and an extra nickel: The early fifties -- Maurice del Bourgo: a "man's world artist" -- Canonical matters and classical curiosities -- Lou Cameron: "if John Wayne had drawn comic books" -- Norman Nodel: "a certain integrity" -- From the crypt to the classics: the EC era -- George Evans, Reed Crandall, and the tradition of EC realism -- Roberta the conqueror -- High tide and greenbacks: the late fifties -- Gerald McCann: the colors of the sky -- Gray Morrow: "real people and real events" -- "Roberta's reforms": the early sixties -- William E. Kanter: about a son -- Five little series and how they grew: picture progress; classics illustrated junior; classics illustrated special issues; the world around us; the best from boys' life comics -- "Fraw…