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Series: Classics Illustrated Junior

- Attribution History

Years in Print: 1953 - 1971

Detail

Publisher: Flag

Gilberton Country:

United States Language: English Issues: #501 - #577 (82 Issues, 118 Printings)

Continued From: none

Continued In: none Disclose

Tracking Notes: Disclose

Notes: Classics Illustrated Junior is a series of 77 fairy and folk tale, myth and legend comic book adaptations created by Albert Lewis Kanter as a companion series to his popular Classics Illustrated. The Junior series began monthly publication by Famous Authors, Ltd. in October 1953, and published its last "first edition" issue in 1962. Titles were reprinted over the years until Spring 1971 when the series ceased publication altogether.

Issues cost 15-cents rather than the typical 10 or 12-cents, and jumped to 25-cents before the series' demise. Supplemental features included Aesop fables adaptations, a limerick by Edward Lear, a nursery rhyme or a poem from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses", a factual article about a bird, beast, fish or reptile, and a dot-to-dot puzzle or a picture to color. Full-page, back cover pin-ups of story scenes were featured on the first 20 titles.

Kanter allowed only in-house advertising in his publications. Inside back covers sometimes offered lists of back titles and order forms or subscription order forms for the Junior series and sometimes Classics Illustrated. First editions of a title featured a "Coming Next Month" promo on the inside front cover which was dropped in reprints. Artists associated with the series included John Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, L. B. Cole, Dik Browne, and Graham Ingels. Kanter distributed and syndicated the line abroad.

In the new millennium, some titles were reprinted by Jack Lake Productions of Canada, and, in September 2008, Classic Comic Store Ltd., based in the United Kingdom, began publishing the Junior line for distribution in the UK, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Format

Publication Type: Comic Books

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S. standard Silver Age U. S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Sample Issue Image

Issue #	Publication Date	Pages	Content Items	Issue Images Count
#501 2	October 1953	36	8/2/1	2 Issue Images total
#502 2	November 1953	36	8/2/1
#503	December 1953	36	8/1/1
#504 2	January 1954	36	8/1/1
#505 2	February 1954	36	12/2/1	2 Issue Images total
#506 2	March 1954	36	8/1/1
#507 2	April 1954	36	8/1/1	2 Issue Images total
#508	May 1954	36	10/1/1
#509 2	June 1954	36	9/3/1	2 Issue Images total
#510 2	July 1954	36	9/3/1
#511 2	August 1954	36	9/2/1	2 Issue Images total
#512 2	September 1954	36	10/3/1	2 Issue Images total
#513 2	November 1954	36	9/2/1
#514	January 1955	36	9/3/1
#515 2	March 1955	36	9/3/1
#516 3	May 1955	36	12/3/1
#517 2	July 1955	36	10/2/1
#518 2	September 1955	36	11/2/1
#519 2	October 1955	36	9/2/1
#520 2	November 1955	36	9/4/1
#521 [O] 3	December 1955	36	9/2/1
#522 [O] 2	January 1956	36	9/2/1
#522 [HRN 576]	October 1965	36	8/2/1
#523	February 1956	36	9/5/1
#524	March 1956	36	9/4/1

Issue #

Publication Date

Pages

Content Items

Issue Images Count

#501 2

October 1953

8/2/1