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''Marvel Classics Comics'' is a 1970s comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as ''Moby-Dick'', ''The Three Musketeers'', and ''The Iliad''. Running from 1976–1978, it was Marvel Comics' attempt to pick up the mantle of ''Classics Illustrated'', which stopped publishing in 1971. 36 issues of ''Marvel Classics Comics'' were published, 12 of them being reprints of another publisher's work. == Overview == ''Classics Illustrated'', created by Albert Kanter, began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. Editor Vincent Fago's ''Pendulum Now Age Classics'', published by Pendulum Press, began adapting literary classics into black-and-white comics beginning in 1973. The Pendulum series was the direct antecedent to ''Marvel Classics Comics'' — in fact, the Marvel series' first twelves issues were colorized reprints of selected Pendulum comics, with new covers. These issues featured writers like Otto Binder, Kin Platt, and Irwin Shapiro doing the adaptations; with art by Filipino artists Alex Niño, Rudy Nebres, and E. R. Cruz, among others. Issues in the ''Marvel Classics Comics'' series were 52 pages with no advertisements. Most of the titles in the series had previously been adapted in ''Classics Illustrated'', but two new ones were added: Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' (issue #9, a Pendulum Press reprint) and H. Rider Haggard's ''She'' (issue #24). After the first twelve reprint issues, adaptations were handled by writers like Doug Moench and John Warner (Warner was the series editor from issue #13–24). Many issues were drawn by Dino Castrillo; artists like Jess Jodloman, Yong Montaño, and Rudy Mesina also had multiple contributions. Ernie Chan was in charge of most of the early covers. In 1984, Marvel teamed with Fisher-Price to re-issue a selection of ''Marvel Classics Comics'' titles in toy stores, packaged with a cassette tape of the book. In 2007, Marvel re-entered the literary adaptations arena with their imprint Marvel Illustrated. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marvel Classics Comics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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