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| Site last updated: 05/05/2008 10:08:18 |
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| Let me bid you a warm welcome to www.berkleyfirst.com - a website and business dedicated to providing information and reference material as well as supplying some of the loveliest comic books produced. |
Here you will find background information on this series and you will also be able to purchase them via the sales catalogue and shopping cart. With the demise of the original and much loved Classics Illustrated series in 1971 (see www.classicsillustrated.co.uk ) it had been 17 years since the series had appeared in print. First Publishing, a new and ambitious Chicago comics company, perhaps best known for its Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, re-introduced the marque in 1990. The illustrations were extraordinary - many of them almost abstract in their depiction of classic heroes and stories. Top-notch cartoonists were given much more artistic freedom to adapt classic literature to comics than in the original series. Sales were poor, but the comics themselves were excellent, combining fresh artistic vision with respectful understanding of the original works. Covers were also challenging - all new and works of art in themselves. Nine titles never produced in the original series appeared:
The Scarlet Letter * The Jungle * * The Island of Dr Moreau * The Devil’s Dictionary * Aesop’s Fables * The Gift of the Magi * The Raven and other Poems * The Secret Agent * The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
First were similarly motivated to Albert Kanter of the original series in their desire to help educate children and the comics were intended, to some extent, for use as reading tools. For those collectors of the old series, the new artwork would jar since the avant-garde nature of it was just too contemporary. Nevertheless they were impressive but they simply weren’t commercially viable and, in June 1991, they ceased after the publication of number 27 - The Jungle.
I believe that you will find your visit here to be both educational and inspiring - hopefully inspiring enough for you to wish to purchase some of these lovely comics. I have been selling comic books for over four years now, to hundreds of collectors across the world (I also purchase collections). I stick very strictly to the condition guide provided (see link) and am always extremely keen to develop returning buyers many of whom ask me to provide all of the comics they require including complete collections ... MORE
Please feel free to contact me - see contact button at left of page - either by e-mail or, if you are in a hurry to buy (!), by ‘phone. Thank you very much for visiting this webpage - I really hope to help you get all those issues that you’ve always wanted to own.
This website is one of a family of websites catering for collectors of novels, movies and legendary heroes portrayed in pictures. You will be able to visit all of them via the drop down box on the left or via the portal www.classiccomicstore.com.
Please enjoy your visit and please return again often.
I would be pleased as punch to help you develop your collection(s).
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