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Issue: Classics Illustrated #1
Publication Date: February 1990
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Issues: #1 of 27 Issues (31 Printings)
Title: The Raven and Other Poems
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFirst
Brand: First PublishingView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: First Publishing Inc. and The Berkley Publishing Group, Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/12/1990
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: 0425120201
UPC/EAN: 07183100375112020978042512020050375
Price: $4.75 CAD
$3.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 19 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Wade Roberts
Disclose Notes: On some copies, the barcode box is blank. On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #175.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cardstock cover; glossy interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Raven and Other Poems

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson (signed)
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson (signed)
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Classics Illustrated are adaptations of the world's greatest works of literature, produced by some of the world's most talented writers and artists.
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The Raven and Other Poems

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Masterpieces of the macabre, these elegant poems - drawn from the most fertile period in Edgar Allan Poe's life - delve the dark depths of the subconscious and trace the hidden horrors of the human soul.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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The Raven

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
Synopsis: A man mourning his lost love is visited by a raven.
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Annabel Lee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Annabel Lee
First Line: It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee...
Synopsis: A man mourns the loss of his childhood love.
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Pages: 5
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Lines on Ale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.
Synopsis: A man drinks ale.
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The City in the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Death
First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne...
Synopsis: Death surveys a sunken city.
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Pages: 6
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The Sleeper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.
Synopsis: Irene is dead.
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Eldorado

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Gaily bedight, a gallant knight, in sunshine and in shadow, had journeyed long, singing a song, in search of Eldorado.
Synopsis: A knight seeks for Eldorado.
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Alone

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: From childhood's hour I have not been as others were-
Synopsis: A boy alone.
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The Haunted Palace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: In the greenest of our valleys by good angels tenanted, once a fair and stately palace-
Synopsis: The fall of a radiant palace.
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The Conqueror Worm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original story); Gahan Wilson (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): Gahan Wilson ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Lo! 'tis a gala night within the lonesome latter years!
Synopsis: The play of "Man" and its true hero.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson
Colorist(s): ?
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
First Line: Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, the son of itinerant actors.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Eric Shanower
Inker(s): Eric Shanower
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Oz Books
Character(s): Cowardly Lion; Scarecrow; Tin Woodsman
First Line: The best Oz books since L. Frank Baum
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tom Mandrake; Jill Thompson
Inker(s): Tom Mandrake; Jill Thompson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Classics Illustrated
Character(s): Hamlet; Hester Prynne
First Line: Watch for these new Classics Illustrated
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The Raven, Annabel Lee, Eldorado, The Sleeper, The Haunted Palace, The Conqueror Worm, The City in the Sea.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover blurb.

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