<i>Classics Illustrated No. 37: The Pioneers</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1947
name: label: maker
content: Gilberton Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This issue of <i>Classics Illustrated</i> contained an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s 1823 novel <i>The Pioneers</i>. Samuel Willinsky adapted the novel for comic publication by Gilberton in May 1947. Rudolph Palais illustrated the cover depicting Natty Bumppo and Benjamin Pump in the stocks, while Pump trips Hiram Doolittle. <i>The Pioneers</i> was published in 1823, the first book published by Cooper in his Leatherstocking Tales series, though the novel is a prequel to the series that included <i>The Last of the Mohicans</i> and <i>The Pathfinder</i>, and <i>The Deerslayer</i>.
label: Description
content: <i>Classic Comics</i> was a series of comic book adaptations of literary classics published from 1941 until 1971. The series aimed to expose young people to classic literature through the more popular medium of a comic book. <i>Classic Comics</i> was first published by Elliott Publishing in 1941, but founder Albert Kanter spun off publishing to the Gilberton Company in 1942. In 1947 <i>Classic Comics</i> became <i>Classics Illustrated</i>. Kanter sold the company to the Frawley Corporation in 1967, who published the series until 1971.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0086.065
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.065
label: accession number
content: 2013.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 in; 19.05 cm x 25.4 cm