<i>Classic Comics No. 11: Don Quixote</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1942
name: label: maker
content: Gilberton Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This issue of <i>Classic Comics</i> contained an adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel <i>Don Quixote</i> that was published by the Gilberton Company, Inc. in May 1943. The cover has art by Louis Zansky that depicts the titular hero Don Quixote tilting at windmills that he sees as giants, accompanied by his neighbor Sancho Panza. The novel was adapted by Samuel H. Abramson, and the issue contained a biography of Cervantes, as well as poems from the American Indian including: “Ojibwa War Songs” “Lament of a Man for His Son,” “Song of the Rain Chant,” and “The Bear’s Song.”
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: 2013.0086.041
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.041
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