Roberta strauss feuerlicht biography of albert

From INTRODUCTION: "GOOD STORIES"
(McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2002)

This is a book about memory and a moment in cultural history.

It is also about stories and storytellers, both those who use words and those who draw pictures. ...

For thirty years, from 1941 to 1971, CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED (originally known as CLASSIC COMICS) introduced GIs, bobby-soxers, and their baby-boom children to "Stories by the World's Greatest Authors"--a category that encompassed Homer's ODYSSEY and Frank Buck's BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE, Shakespeare's HAMLET and Talbot Mundy's KING--OF THE KHYBER RIFLES, Goethe's FAUST and Owen Wister's VIRGINIAN.

Although the comic-book series of literary adaptations and biographies was disparaged by educator May Hill Arbuthnot and attacked by crusader Fredric Wertham, it gradually won the applause of skeptics and the affection of at least two generations.

By the mid-1950s, with more than 1