The Food Of The Gods

Classics Illustrated is a comic book series
featuring adaptations of literary classics
such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.
Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in
1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues.
Following the series' demise, various companies reprinted its titles.
The first five titles were published irregularly under the banner "Classic Comics Presents"
while issues six and seven were published under the banner "Classic Comics Library"
with a ten-cent cover price. Arabian
Nights (issue 8), illustrated by Lillian Chestney, is the first issue to
use the "Classics Comics" banner.
With the fourth issue, The Last of the Mohicans, in 1942,
Kanter moved the operation to different
offices and the corporate identity was changed to the Gilberton Company, Inc.
Reprints of previous titles began in 1943.
Wartime paper shortages forced Kanter to reduce the 64-page format to 56 pages.