Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

Monday, May 6, 2019

Nifty cover from 1953. The artist is unknown.

scarecrow33May 8, 2019 at 8:44 AM
The Classics Illustrated featured some of the best covers and artwork ever. They have an undeservedly poor reputation today, making it almost embarrassing for a collector like myself to admit that he collects Classics Illustrated. While they sometimes watered down the classics, they still could contain enough of the flavor of the original work to induce a nightmare or two. The Classics version of "Frankenstein" truly frightened me as a child. These days I seek out the Classics Illustrated to collect, due to the relative affordability of back issues, and because some of them are just beautiful in their depictions of scenes from literary classics. Two of my special favorites are "Knights of the Round Table" and "The Prisoner of Zenda."
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