Title Statements
- Full title :Classics illustrated : a cultural history / William B. Jones, Jr.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):McFarland & Co
- Place of Publication:Jefferson (N.C.)
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
L'édition originale a été publiée en 2001 chez McFarland & Co.
Bibliogr. p. 363-365. Index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 vol. (XII-381 p.) : : fac-sim. en noir et blanc, couv. ill. en coul. ; : 29 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0786438401, 9780786438402
- oclc:ocn858146663
- Dewey Decimal:741.597 3
Table of Contents
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 ; "Frawley's folly"" the twin ci…
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