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| Let me bid you a warm welcome to www.storiesbyfamousauthors.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 also find background information on this splendid series - how it came into being and how long it ran for and you will also be able to purchase issues via the sales catalogue.
Here you will find background information on this splendid series - how it came into being and how long it ran for and you will also be able to purchase issues via the sales catalogue. Here you will also be able to see today’s prices for those rare issues and you may well find that you wished that you had kept and cherished them all those years ago, if you once owned them.
Here you will find many of the titles for sale and all the titles produced listed (there are 13 of them). This series was first produced by Seaboard Publishing as Fast Fiction and provided competition for the more well known series, Classics Illustrated (see www.classicsillustrated.co.uk ) The series used some of the same artists as that series, including the well known and very well regarded Henry Carl Keifer. Clearly Albert Kanter, the Father of the Classics Illustrated series wasn’t impressed to have another publisher muscling in on his idea and was also angered that Keifer was also churning out some of the Seaboard stories - Hamlet and She refer - and so Kanter bought the upstart in 1951. Within the thirteen produced there are several titles that were never produced in the Classics Illustrated run - She, Beau Geste, Captain Blood, Scaramouche, The 39 Steps, The Window, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Nicholas Nickleby and Svengali. In fact, if you own The Red Badge of Courage, number 98 in the Classics Illustrated series, then you have what was planned to be number 14 in the series from Stories by Famous Authors and was purchased by Gilberton at the same time as the purchase of the publishing rights for the 13 issued. That is why The Red Badge is only 32 pages long (as were all the Seaboard series) and the issue was padded with a fifteen page short history of the American Civil War - fascinating stuff - at least to the ardent collector!
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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