And here I would have thought John was more of a Classics Illustrated kind of guy. ...
I was, I was! But--
eclectic, if you know what I mean!
http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/016_classicsillutrated/016_classics.htmCLASSICS ILLUSTRATED:
A CULTURAL HISTORY (....)
[
William B. ]
Jones charts the fortunes of Russian Jewish immigrant
Albert Kantner (1897-1973), who in 1941 conceived of
Classic Comics as self-contained abridgments of a literary work into a single comic book. To produce the first issue,
The Three Musketeers, Kantner and his partners gambled $8,000 for 250,000 copies; they tripled their investment. From these modest beginnings, Kantner built his family's lucrative
Gilberton publishing empire.
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