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Jules Verne CI covers and illos in Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, Second Edition

From: WILLIAM JONES <wbj514~at~sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:13:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Fellow Vernians,

I thought you might be interested to hear that Jules Verne is well-represented
in my recently published Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, Second
Edition(McFarland,
2011): http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3840-2 or
http://www.amazon.com/Classics-Illustrated-Cultural-History-ed/dp/0786438401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314763202&sr=8-1.
 Norman Saunders's painted cover for A Journey to the Center of the Earth graces
the new book's front cover, while the iconic Off on a Comet painted cover (which
was the centerpiece of the first-edition front cover) appears on page C8 of the
first color section.

The second edition includes Classics Illustrated interior-art pages from Michael
Strogoff (Arnold L. Hicks, p. 44), The Mysterious Island (Robert H. Webb, p.
53), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Henry C. Kiefer, full-page
reproduction of original art, p. 70), Around the World in Eighty Days (Henry C.
Kiefer, p. 71), From the Earth to the Moon (Alex A. Blum, p. 88), A Journey to
the Center of the Earth (Norman Nodel, p. 157), Master of the World (Gray
Morrow, p. 219), and Robur the Conqueror (Don Perlin, p. 228). The CI covers for
From the Earth to the Moon (p. 135), Master of the World (p. 236), and Tigers
and Traitors (p. 238) appear as black-and-white text illustrations.

Classics Illustrated, 2d Ed., is more than 100 pages longer than the first
edition (now out of print), with over 300 illustrations, more than three-fourths
of which are new. Nine of the thirteen images listed above are unique to the
second edition. The descriptive Appendix entries have been greatly expanded to
include the month, year, HRN (Highest Reorder Number), and cover and
interior-art variants of each CI title. If some of your early encounters with
Jules Verne were through the Classics Illustrated adaptations, this book may
bring back memories of temps perdu.

Thanks.

Bill
 ____________________
William B. Jones Jr., NAJVS
Authors Guild website: http://www.williambjonesjr.com/
Received on Wed 31 Aug 2011 - 07:13:08 IDT

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