Classics Illustrated GN (2009- Classic Comic Store) comic books

Volume 51 - 1st printing. "The Iliad!"

Based on the Epic poem by Homer. Art by Alex A. Blum.

Homer's epic poem of the Trojan War, and the conflict between King Agamemnon and his warrior, Achilles. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 52 - 1st printing. "The Hound of the Baskervilles!"

Based on the story by Sir Conan Doyle. Art by Louis Zansky.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's third novel featuring consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. In this adventure, Holmes and Dr. Watson must investigate a mysterious and seemingly supernatural family curse on the moors. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 53 - 1st printing. "The Odyssey!"

Based on the Epic poem by Homer. Art by Alex A. Blum.

Homer's epic poem of the Greek warrior Odysseus's long, troubled voyage home after the fall of Troy. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 54 - 1st printing. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer!"

Based on the story by Mark Twain.

Mark Twain's classic tale of Tom Sawyer and his friends, with murder, intrigue and hidden treasure to boot! Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 55 - 1st printing. "The Prisoner of Zenda!"

Based on the story by Anthony Hope. Art by Henry C Keifer.

Set in the fictional land of Ruritania, The Prisoner of Zenda is a tale of intrigue, crime and scheming villains trying to depose the rightful heir to the throne. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $9.95.

Volume 56 - 1st printing. "All Quiet on the Western Front!" Based on the story by Erich Maria Remarque. Adapted by Maurice Del Bourgo. Art by Kenneth W. Fitch. Narrated by Paul Bäumer, a young man fighting on the French front, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front describes the extreme circumstances of the German soldiers of the First World War. Paul and his friends volunteered to join the army after being swept up by the patriotic speeches of their teacher. But after undergoing several weeks of harsh training and experiencing the unimaginable horrors of life on the front, they have realized that the truth of warfare is not honorable, but terrible. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 57 - 1st printing. "Tom Brown's Schooldays!" Based on the story by Thomas Hughes. Art by John Tartaglione. Cover by Gerald McCann. A semi-autobiographical novel about the titular Tom's time at Rugby School in England. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Thomas Hughes, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 58 - 1st printing. "The Food of the Gods!" Based on the story by H. G. Wells. Art by Gerald McCann and Tony Tallarico. A scientist discovers a new substance which makes animals grow to several times their normal size, but soon the substance enters the food chain and the giant animals run amuck! Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of H. G. Wells, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 59 - 1st printing. "Abraham Lincoln!" Story and art by Norman Nodel. Cover by Gerald McCann. Classics Illustrated tells the extraordinary life tale of Abraham Lincoln in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a timeline of events surrounding Lincoln's life and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 60 - 1st printing. "Benjamin Franklin!" Adapted by the story by Benjamin Franklin. Art by Alex A. Blum. Cover by Gustav Schrotter. Classics Illustrated tells the extraordinary life tale of Benjamin Franklin in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a timeline of events surrounding Franklin's life and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 61 - 1st printing. "Davy Crockett!" Art by Lou Cameron. The life of Davy Crockett, the American frontiersman. Classics Illustrated tells the extraordinary life tale of Davy Crockett in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a timeline of events surrounding Crockett's life and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 62 - 1st printing. "Rob Roy!" Based on the story by Sir Walter Scott. Art by Rudy Palais. The adventures of Frank Osbaldistone and his time in Scotland with the famous outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor during the time of the 1715 Jacobite Rising. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Sir Walter Scott, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 63 - 1st printing. "Buffalo Bill!" Written by William F Cody. Art by Maurice Del Bourgo. Cover by Mort Kunstler. This is the exciting life story of "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West Show! Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.This new CCS Books edition is specifically tailored to engage and educate young readers with some of the greatest works ever written, while still thrilling older readers who have loving memories of this series of old. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Very Fine $7.99

Volume 64 - 1st printing. "The Adventures of Kit Carson!" Art by Rudy Palais. Cover by Mort Kunstler. The life story and adventures of Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson, the famous American frontiersman. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.This new CCS Books edition is specifically tailored to engage and educate young readers with some of the greatest works ever written, while still thrilling older readers who have loving memories of this series of old. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 65 - 1st printing. "The Oregon Trail!" Art by Rudy Palais. Cover by Mort Kunstler. The true story of author Francis Parkman's adventures in Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas in the summer of 1846. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Francis Parkman, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.This new CCS Books edition is specifically tailored to engage and educate young readers with some of the greatest works ever written, while still thrilling older readers who have loving memories of this series of old. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 66 - 1st printing. "The Pioneers!" Written by James F. Cooper. Art by Rudy Palais. Cover by Taylor Oughton. The first of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," The Pioneers tells the story of the elderly Natty Bumppo and his ongoing friendship with the Mohican, Chingachgook. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of James Fenimore Cooper, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 67 - 1st printing. "Wild Bill Hickok!" Written by Medio Iorio. Art by Sal Trapani. The life story of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, the famous lawman, gunfighter and gambler of the Old West. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 68 - 1st printing. "Daniel Boone!" Written by John Bakeless. Art by Alex A. Blum and Kenneth W. Fitch. The life story of Daniel Boone, American explorer, pioneer and frontiersman and one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of John Bakeless, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 69 - 1st printing. "Joan of Ark!" Written by Samuel Willinsky. Art by Henry C Keifer. The story of the great heroine of France, Joan of Arc, also known as "The Maid of Orléans." Born a peasant girl in Domrémy, France in 1412, during the Hundred Years' War, Joan began to hear celestial voices as a teenager. It was these voices which she claimed guided her in battle against the English, until her capture and fateful trial for heresy. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 70 - 1st printing. "The Song of Hiawatha!" Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Art by Alex A. Blum. Longfellow's epic poem of the legendary Native American hero, Hiawatha and his love, Minnehaha, as he performs many brave and magical deeds. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 71 - 1st printing. "The Man Who Laughs!"

Based on the story by Victor Hugo. Art by Norman Nodel.

The Man Who Laughs tells of a facially disfigured boy, Gwynplaine, who is taken in by a carnival vendor and performs at fairs in England. It is later discovered that there is more to his past than meets the eye. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers.

This edition also includes a biography of Victor Hugo, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $9.95.

Volume 72 - 1st printing. "The Aeneid!"

Based on the story by Virgil. Adapted by John Dryden.

The Aeneid tells of the adventures of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, the ancestor of the Romans. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Volume 73 - 1st printing. "Through the Looking-Glass!"

Based on the story by Lewis Carroll. Art and cover by Jennifer H Robinson.

Lewis Carroll's follow-up to his classic Alice in Wonderland, with further adventures of Alice. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $9.95.

Volume 74 - 1st printing. "Don Quixote!" Based on the story by Miguel de Cervantes. Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales in colorful comic strip form, offering excellent introductions for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the stories. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 75 - 1st printing. "3 Famous Mysteries (The Sign of the Four, The Flayed Hand, The Murders in the Rue Morgue)!" Based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, and Edgar Allan Poe. Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales in colorful comic strip form, offering excellent introductions for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the stories. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 76 - 1st printing. "Arabian Nights!" Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales in colorful comic strip form, offering excellent introductions for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the stories. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 77 - 1st printing. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court!" Based on the story by Mark Twain. Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales in colorful comic strip form, offering excellent introductions for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the stories. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Volume 78 - 1st printing. "The Black Arrow!" Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Adapted by Ruth A. Roche and Tom Scott. Art by Arnold Hicks. In the midst of England's War of the Roses, Dick Shelton is on a quest for justice over the death of his father. Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales in colorful comic strip form, offering excellent introductions for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the stories. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Volume 79 - 1st printing. "Crime and Punishment!" Based on the story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Art by Rudy Palais. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel of damnation and redemption follows a desperate student Raskolnikov who commits murder without remorse. Pursued by the authorities his conscience grows louder as the noose around his neck tightens. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 80 - 1st printing. "The Red Badge of Courage!" Based on the story by Stephen Crane. Art and cover by Gustav Schrotter. Cover by Maurice Del Bourgo. Stephen Crane's classic of realism follows one Union soldier's struggle with cowardice, as he prepares for and fights in his first battle during the American Civil War. Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales in colorful comic strip form, offering excellent introductions for younger readers. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Volume 81 - 1st printing. "The Deer Slayer!" Based on the story by James F. Cooper. Adapted by Evelyn Goodman. Art by Louis Zansky. A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. Natty must navigate the tensions between the natives and European settlers in the American wilderness. Classics Illustrated tells James Fennimore Cooper's tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 82 - 1st printing. "Uncle Tom's Cabin!" Based on the story by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Art and cover by RH Livingstone. Harriet Beecher Stowe's renowned anti-slavery novel follows the life of enslaved Uncle Tom, a strong religious man who finds himself the property of a cruel plantation owner, fighting for his freedom and ultimately, for his right to live. Classics Illustrated tells this important tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 83 - 1st printing. "Rip Van Winkle!" Based on the story by Washington Irving. Art and cover by Norman Nodel. In pre-revolutionary New York, Rip Van Winkle unknowingly falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to find the world irrevocably changed. Then, strange doings are afoot in the village of Sleepy Hollow, where legend tells of a Headless Horseman. Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales of Washington Irving in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 84 - 1st printing. "The Pathfinder!" Based on the story by James F. Cooper. Art and cover by Louis Zansky. James Fennimore Cooper's most picturesque novel, The Pathfinder, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes amidst the French and Indian War of the 1750s. Natty Bumpo traverses new dangers of love and war in this thrilling wilderness adventure. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 85 - 1st printing. "The Moonstone!" Based on the story by Wilkie Collins. Art and cover by Don Rico. Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder that inspired the hugely popular modern detective genre. The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is stolen and no-one is above suspicion as the peculiar Sergeant Cuff pieces together a puzzling series of events. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 86 - 1st printing. "Cyrano de Bergerac!" Based on the story by Edmond Rostand. Art and cover by Alex A. Blum. Paris, 1640, the gifted and charismatic poet Cyrano de Bergerac finds himself deeply in love with the beautiful and intellectual Roxane. Considering himself too ugly for Roxane's affections, he helps dashing Christian to capture her heart through poetic letters, but can Cyrano find the courage to reveal his true feelings? Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.