Classics Illustrated
#99 [O] - Hamlet
(September 1952)
Gilberton,
1947 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gilberton Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Classics Illustrated
- Editing
- Harry Adler (managing editor); William E. Kanter (editor); Ruth Roche (story editor); S. M. Iger (art director)
Issue Notes
HRN 98
Original index by Jim Walls with Katie.
Reprinted in HRN 167 which only differs in that the inside front cover has "Build Your Own Library" permanent binder offer rather than the two sequences recorded here, the inside back cover has a different promotional advertisement and the back cover has a different backlist.
This issue has variants:
Original index by Jim Walls with Katie.
Reprinted in HRN 167 which only differs in that the inside front cover has "Build Your Own Library" permanent binder offer rather than the two sequences recorded here, the inside back cover has a different promotional advertisement and the back cover has a different backlist.
This issue has variants:
Hamlet
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- drama; historical
- Characters
- Hamlet; Ghost of Hamlet's Father
- Synopsis
- Full-page illustration depicts Hamlet encountering his father's ghost.
- Reprints
-
in Illustrierte Klassiker (BSV Hannover, 2013 series) #4 - Hamlet -
in Illustrerede Klassikere (I.K. [Illustrerede klassikere], 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet (1955) -
in Illustrated Classics (Classics/Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet ([1956]) -
in Illustrerade klassiker (Illustrerade klassiker, 1956 series) #4 [HBN 16] (1:a upplagan) - Hamlet ([1956]) - in Illustrierte Klassiker [Classics Illustrated] (BSV - Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet [HLN 16] (1956) which is reprinted
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in Illustrerte Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #188 - Hamlet ([1968]) which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
front cover
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Oliver Twist
Who Am I? / text article / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Half-page, vertically-oriented puzzle on the right side of the page. Five clues lead to the identification of a literary character.
Indexer Notes
inside front cover
Hamlet
comic story / 44 pages
- Script
- William Shakespeare (original author); Samuel Willinsky (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Alex Blum (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Blum (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- drama; historical
- Characters
- Hamlet (Prince of Denmark); Ghost of Hamlet's Father; Queen Gertrude (Hamlet's mother); King Claudius (Hamlet's uncle); Polonius (chief adviser); Ophelia (Polonius's daughter); Laertes (Polonius's son); Horatio (Hamlet's friend); Traveling Players; Gravediggers; Courtiers
- Synopsis
- Prince Hamlet feigns insanity in an attempt to uncover his father's murderer.
- Reprints
- in Illustrerede Klassikere (I.K. [Illustrerede klassikere], 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet (1955)
- in Illustrated Classics (Classics/Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet ([1956])
- in Illustrerade klassiker (Illustrerade klassiker, 1956 series) #4 [HBN 16] (1:a upplagan) - Hamlet ([1956])
- in Illustrierte Klassiker [Classics Illustrated] (BSV - Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet (1956) which is reprinted
- in Illustrerte Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #188 - Hamlet ([1968]) which is reprinted
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William Shakespeare
text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Synopsis
- Brief biographical sketch of William Shakespeare.
- Reprints
- in Illustrated Classics (Classics/Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet ([1956])
- in Illustrierte Klassiker [Classics Illustrated] (BSV - Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet (1956) which is reprinted
- in Illustrerte Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #188 - Hamlet ([1968]) which is reprinted
-
Remember the Alamo!
Stories of Early America / text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (spot illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Synopsis
- Article about the battle of the Alamo. Spot illustration depicts Mexican forces attacking the Alamo.
Damon and Pythias
Great Lives / text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- biography; historical
- Synopsis
- Article about the friendship of the Ancient Greeks, Damon and Pythias.
- Reprints
- in Illustrated Classics (Classics/Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet ([1956])
- in Illustrierte Klassiker [Classics Illustrated] (BSV - Williams, 1956 series) #4 - Hamlet (1956) which is reprinted
- in Illustrerte Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #188 - Hamlet ([1968]) which is reprinted
- in Mine Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] (Atlantic Forlag, 1987 series) #13 - Hamlet (1988)
- in Illustrerte Klassikere (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2006 series) #46 ([januar] 2014)
- in Mine Klassikere [Classics Illustrated] (Atlantic Forlag, 1987 series) #9 - Dr. Jekyll og Mr. Hyde ([1987]) [2. translation]
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Table of Contents
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0.
Hamlet
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1.
Coming Next Month
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2.
Oliver Twist
Who Am I? -
3.
Hamlet
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4.
William Shakespeare
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5.
Remember the Alamo!
Stories of Early America -
6.
Damon and Pythias
Great Lives -
7.
Christy Mathewson's Great Series
Stories from the World of Sports -
8.
["Free!"]
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9.
["You asked for it! Here it is!"]
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10.
["Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Kathryn Wright
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