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Title: Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, With Illustrations by William B. Jones Jr. ISBN: 0-7864-1077-9 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tells of the birth of this popular medium
Comment: From 1941-71 Classics Illustrated comics introduced millions to abridged, comics-style version of literary masterpieces. Classics Illustrated tells of the birth of this popular medium, founded by Russian Jewish immigrant Kanter whose operations saw both the heyday and decline of the golden age of comics. The focuses on artists' creations is particularly involving.
Rating: 5
Summary: An easily maligned subject treated with taste and dignity
Comment: The thing I appreciate most about this book is the soberness (with no lapses into pretentiousness or portentousness) the author brings to his subject. A survey of Classics Illustrated, to be sure, could have very easily elicited yet another visually engaging pretty-picture book saddled with a stridently jokey, throwaway text --ala Chronicle Books. We can be thankful that the tone here is intelligent, the level of detail scholarly, and very few, if any, stones are left unturned. The author has done all his homework, giving all known writers, editors, artists of the series coverage commensurate with their contribution.
This is a thoughtful, caring volume that is so much more than a tribute to a long-gone comic series, although it could be read as that too. One can't help but feel this is a primer on the way more books about popular culture really ought to be written.
Rating: 5
Summary: Classics Illustrated: You Keep On Giving
Comment: About every five or ten years, when the nay sayers are about to bury Classics Illustrated again, they bloom from the earth like the Phoenix rising from the flames. And now, Willian B. Jones Jr has taken the baton for this decade, for this century, and brought new and exiciting joy to the legion of Classics Illustrated collectors. How much more new information is there to be found on the wonderful illustrated stories that Al Kanter first brought to us in Octover of 1941? The answer is that we will never know but we keep on finding more and more. We can speculate about Red Majic, Action Play Books, Red Projectors, Tatoos, Classics Boxes, Pen and Pencil sets and many other yet to be explored items of the Classics Illustreated lore. But here, Bill Jones has filled in a tremendous gap for all of the ages to enjoy. What a tremendous effort! What an overwhelmingly comprehensive peeling away of the darkness to open the lives and tribulations of anyone who ever picked up a pen, pencil or brush to bring us Classics Illustrated. As the acknowledged Father of Classics Illustrated collecting it brings unbrided joy to my heart to read and reread the wonderful stories that Bill weaves on every page about the men and women behind the comics we came to love as Classics Illustrated. His effort is now in a second printing and deserves many, many more. My Classics Illustrated collectors friends are buying this book whenever they can. It is a joyful six hour read to be then put aside and opened randomly again and again with refreshing illumination with every new opening. Buy this now! You will not see the likes of this ever again. Raymond S. True, Classic Comics Library
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Title: Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages by Richard E. Rubenstein ISBN: 0151007209 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Silver Age of Comic Book Art by Arlen Schumer ISBN: 1888054867 Publisher: Collectors Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits & Encounters by Gay Talese, Barbara Lounsberry ISBN: 0802776752 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Imagining Shakespeare by Stephen Orgel ISBN: 1403911770 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 06 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 33rd edition by Robert M Overstreet ISBN: 1400046688 Publisher: House of Collectibles Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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