CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED comic books 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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Published Oct 1953 by Classics Illustrated.$9.00
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Adventures of Kit Carson, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Rudy Palais. (HRN 113, with 10/53 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Published Dec 1953 by Classics Illustrated.$5.00
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The Red Rover, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 115, with 12/53 date). Hazarding lashing winds, high seas and severe storms, the Red Rover stalks his prey. Here is an adventure-packed, suspense-filled tale of ruthless pirates and their plotting to capture cargo ships. Cover price $0.15.
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Published Jul 1959 by Classics Illustrated.$9.60
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Won By the Sword, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 150, with 7/59 date). In 1618, a fearful struggle began among nations of Europe. It is known as the Thirty Years' War. By 1635, it seemed that all of Germany would soon fall to the armies of Austria. As an ally of Spain, Austria would then dominate France. To prevent this, Richelieu, the French minister, brought France into the war. Then began the final phase of the long and bloody conflict. Cover price $0.15.
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Robur the Conqueror, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 162, with 5/61 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Two Years Before the Mast, 1st Printing, Classics Comics. (HRN 25, 10/45). Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jan 1948 by Classics Illustrated.$32.00
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Tom Brown's School Days, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 44, 1/48). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1
Published Dec 1949 by Classics Illustrated.$19.00
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Cloister and the Hearth, 1st (and only) Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 67, 12/49). Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1951 by Classics Illustrated.$12.00
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White Fang, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover (the first 3 printings of this title are the last with line drawing covers). (HRN 79, 2/51). Cover price $0.15.
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Issue #1
Published Aug 1951 by Classics Illustrated.$9.50
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Under Two Flags, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Ouida story about Bert Cecil and his adventures after he flees his country and birthright and spends his life in the service of a foreign country. Issue also has a text biography of Ouida and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 87, with 8/51 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Crime and Punishment, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Cited in Parade of Pleasure. (HRN 89, with 11/51 date). Through the streets of a large metropolis walks a murderer. Follow this criminal as he seeks to escape from poverty and his own guilty conscience while becoming trapped in a web of justice. Cover price $0.15.
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Published Aug 1952 by Classics Illustrated.The Red Badge of Courage, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 98, with 8/52 date). This is no epic history of great generals, glorious victories or dire defeats. This is simply the story of what befell only one young lad on that fateful day when he came face to face with the monster called war. Cover price $0.15.
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Mutiny on the Bounty, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 100, with 10/52 date). Beginning the first part of the Bounty trilogy, the story continues in Classics Illustrated #103 and 109. Cover price $0.15.
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Published May 1953 by Classics Illustrated. -
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Pitcairn's Island, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Rudy Palais. Story of a group of mutineers who sought to destroy their captain but only succeeded in destroying themselves. Pitcairn's Island is the third and final part of the Bounty trilogy, the first two were Mutiny on the Bounty (CI#100) & Men Against the Sea (CI#103). (HRN 110, with 7/53 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Published Jan 1958 by Classics Illustrated.$9.00
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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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Published Jan 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$13.00
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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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Published May 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$3.60
The Conquest of Mexico, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art and cover by Bruno Premiani. (HRN 156, with 5/60 date). The Spanish discovered Mexico in 1518. It was then a land inhabited by different tribes of Indians. The most powerful were the Aztecs. In 1519, a Spaniard, Hernando Cortez, set out to conquer Mexico. One of the soldiers who went with him was Bernal Diaz del Castillo. This is Castillo's own story of the bloody battle for Mexico. Cover price $0.15.
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Published Sep 1960 by Classics Illustrated.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 #1A
Published Jan 1961 by Classics Illustrated.$8.40
The 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.$13.00
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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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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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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A Christmas Carol, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. Original and only edition published of this comic. Kiefer cover and art. (HRN 53, 11/48). Cover price $0.10.
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Men Against the Sea, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 104, with 1/53 date). Story continued from CI #100 "Mutiny on the Bounty". Following the mutiny, Captain Bligh and eighteen members of his crew are set adrift in an open boat. Unprotected against fierce storms, unarmed against attacks by savage natives and facing slow starvation, the men embarked on an amazing voyage of breathtaking adventures across thousands of miles of treacherous sea. Second part of the Bounty trilogy, last part continues in CI#109 "Pitcairn's Island". Cover price $0.15.
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Published Apr 1953 by Classics Illustrated.$17.50
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Buffalo Bill, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Maurice del Bourgo. (HRN 107, with 4/53 date). Cover price $0.15.
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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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Published Jul 1954 by Classics Illustrated.$7.00
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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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Published Jul 1955 by Classics Illustrated.$16.00
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The King of the Mountains, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Norman Nodel. (HRN 128, with 7/55 date). Three travelers in Greece are kidnapped by the fierce, feared robber king of the mountains, Hadji Stavros. He demands a heavy ransom and informs his prisoners that it must be paid in one month. If it is not paid in one month, then --. 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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Published Jan 1957 by Classics Illustrated.$7.50
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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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Published Mar 1958 by Classics Illustrated.$9.00
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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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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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Published Sep 1959 by Classics Illustrated.$5.80
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Wild Animals I Have Known, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art and cover by L.B. Cole. (HRN 152, with 9/59 date). These are stories about real animals. One is Lobo, a great grey wolf who ravaged northern New Mexico until he was trapped by his one weakness. Another is Wully, a faithful dog turned sheep killer. Still another is a pacing mustang who would not be captured. All of these animals meet a different fate, but in each of them is the stamp of greatness. Cover price $0.15.
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Published Mar 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$9.00
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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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Published Nov 1960 by Classics Illustrated.$9.80
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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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In Freedom's Cause, 1st Printing, Painted Cover on stiff paper. Art by George Evans and Reed Crandall. (HRN 169, with Winter 1969 date). Cover price $0.25.
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Issue #1A
Published Sep 1948 by Classics Illustrated.$32.00
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The Spy, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover, inside back cover has " A Christmas Carol" illustraton. (HRN 51, 9/48). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1B
Published Sep 1948 by Classics Illustrated.$3.80
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The Spy, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover, inside back cover has "The Man in the Iron Mask" illustration. (HRN 51, 9/48). Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #1C
Published 1963 by Classics Illustrated.$2.80
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The Spy, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover, outside back cover is full color. (HRN 51, 8/48). Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1950 by Classics Illustrated.$8.99
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The Pilot, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 71, 4/50). Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1952 by Classics Illustrated.$9.60
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The Courtship of Miles Standish, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 92, with 2/52 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Published Nov 1952 by Classics Illustrated.$10.50
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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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Published Feb 1954 by Classics Illustrated.$19.00
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The Bottle Imp, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Lou Cameron. (HRN 117, with 2/54 date). What would you do if you could have anything you wished for - for a price - the price of your soul? The Bottle Imp is the story of a man whose very fate depends on his outwitting the devil himself. Also included is Stevenson's exciting adventure story of the South Seas, The Beach of Falesa. Cover price $0.15.
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Published Apr 1954 by Classics Illustrated.$18.00
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Rob Roy, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 119, with 4/54 date). His father's papers mysteriously stolen, young Francis Obaldistone rides up into the wild Highlands of Scotland in search of them. Suddenly, he finds himself in the midst of the plotting, treachery, heroism and drama of a fiery Scottish rebellion. And suddenly, and strangely, he meets the many-sided robber, Rob Roy, outlaw to the authorities, hero to the clans. Cover price $0.15.
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Published Jun 1954 by Classics Illustrated.$5.00
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The Hurricane, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 121, with 6/54 date). The proud Terangi makes a final, desperate attempt to escape from unjust imprisonment. As the authorities draw closer, nature intervenes. The skies blacken, the tides rise, the wind snaps through the palm trees and the South Sea of Manukura is battered by a howling hurricane. Cover price $0.15.
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Castle Dangerous, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Stan Campbell. (HRN 141, with 11/57 date). In 1307, the Scots were in the midst of a bloody struggle to free themselves from England. Among the possessions in dispute was Douglas Castle. It belonged to the Scotsman, James Douglas, but was held by force by an English garrison under the command of Sir John de Walton. James Douglas was as determined to regains his castle as Walton was to hold it. Only one of these two gallant men could triumph in the battle for the dangerous castle. Cover price $0.15.
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Published Jan 1959 by Classics Illustrated.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.
