Object Details
- Description
- This issue of Classic Comics contained an adaptation of Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s 1869 novel Lorna Doone. Ruth Roche adapted the novel for comic publication by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in December 1946. Matt Baker illustrated the cover that depicts the characters John Ridd and Lorna Doone climbing the cliff next to a waterfall.
- Classic Comics was a series of comic book adaptations of literary classics published from 1941 until 1971. The series aimed to expose young people to classic literature through the more popular medium of a comic book. Classic Comics was first published by Elliott Publishing in 1941, but founder Albert Kanter spun off publishing to the Gilberton Company in 1942. In 1947 Classic Comics became Classics Illustrated. Kanter sold the company to the Frawley Corporation in 1967, who published the series until 1971.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Gilberton Company, Inc.
- date made
- 1946
- Credit Line
- Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 in; 19.05 cm x 25.4 cm
- Object Name
- comic book
