Monday, March 24, 2008

#010. Epic Illustrated Comics

    Epic Illustrated was a comics-magazine anthology published in the United States by Marvel Comics. The series lasted for 34 issues, from Spring 1980 to February 1986. Similar to the US-licensed graphic-story magazine Heavy Metal, it featured mature content oriented at an older audience than traditional American comic books, as well as offering its writers and artists ownership rights and royalties in place of the industry-standard work for hire contracts. A color comic-book imprint, Epic Comics, was spun off in 1982.

    The magazine was initiated under editor Rick Marschall in 1979 under the title Odyssey, and originally set to launch as an issue of Marvel Super Special, Marvel's early graphic novel line. After Marschall learned of at least seven other magazines titled Odyssey, the project was renamed Epic Illustrated and launched as a standalone series. Marschall was replaced by editor Archie Goodwin in the autumn of 1979, several months before the first issue was published.

    In addition to the work of such established mainstream-comics talents as John Buscema and Jim Starlin, and such independent-press creators as Wendy Pini, Goodwin commissioned stories by many new cartoonists, including Steve Bissette, Jon J. Muth, Rick Veitch and Kent Williams. The anthology featured heroic fiction and genre stories, primarily fantasy and science fiction, but in a broad range of styles.

    Epic Illustrated also included an occasional Marvel Comics protagonist, such as the first issue's Silver Surfer. Because the magazine was not subject to traditional comic books' Comics Code Authority, however, writers and artists were free to create material stories that might be risqué or non-canon.

    Each issue usually featured a main story, a number of regular serials, and anthological shorts.



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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Classics Illustrated Berkley

Classics Illustrated was re-launched in 1990 in graphic novel/book form by the Berkley Publishing Group and First Publishing, Inc. featuring all-new adaptations by such top graphic novelists as Rick Geary, Bill Sienkiewicz, Kyle Baker, Gahan Wilson, and others. Total 27 comics were published (1990-1991).



01 The Raven & Other Poems
02 Great Expectations
03 Through the Looking Glass
04 Moby Dick

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Classics Illustrated Junior Comics


“CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED JUNIOR was the brainchild of Russian-born Albert Lewis Kanter, a visionary publisher who deserves to be ranked among the great teachers of the 20th century. Born in Baranovitch, Russia on April 11, 1897, he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1904. From 1941 to 1971, he introduced young readers to the realms of literature, history, folklore, mythology, and science in such juvenile series as CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED, CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED JUNIOR, CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED SPECIAL ISSUES, and THE WORLD AROUND US.”
- William B. Jones Jr.; Author; Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History; (McFarland & Co., Publishers)

77 CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED JUNIOR (fairy tales and folk tales) were published. 10 from this series  were printed by Amar Chitra Katha as #1 to #10 in 8 Indian languages. Only from #11, ACK had started printing own comics. 


1  Jack & The Bean Stalk (CIJ #507)
2  Cinderella (CIJ #503)
3  Little Red Riding Hood (CIJ #510)
4  Aladdin & His Lamp (CIJ #516)
5  The Magic Fountain (CIJ #533)
6  The Three Little Pigs (CIJ #506)
7  The Sleeping Beauty (CIJ #505)
8  The Wizard of Oz (CIJ #535)
9  Pinochhio (CIJ #513)
10  Snow White & Seven Dwarfs (CIJ #501)


It is a nice series, worth to add in own physical collection.


501 Snowwhite & the Seven Dwarfs
502 The Ugly Duckling
503 Cinderella
504 The Pied Piper