Joseph Bialot

Après le Décalogue … Tout en assumant pleinement l’héritage du Décalogue dont il prolonge les deux premiers volumes, Le Légataire revendique son indépendance. Ce polar haletant jongle avec les rebondissements et les coups de théâtre pour notre plus grand plaisir et celui de son auteur, Frank Giroud. Qui ne s’en cache pas…

Classics Illustrated were comic book adaptations from classic literature, a series that Russian-born Albert Lewis Kanter (1897-1973) began in 1941 for Elliot Publishing. Introduced under the heading Classic Comics, the series started October, 1941, with a 64-page adaptation of Alexandre Dumas‘ , followed by and . With the fourth issue, The Last of the Mohicans, Kanter began his own Gilberton Publications. The first 12 issues had 64 pages, but wartime paper shortages forced Kanter to reduce each issue to 56 pages. In 1947, after the first 34 issues, Kanter changed the title from Classic Comics to Classics Illustrated, a logo with a high visibility over the next 15 years because Kanter, unlike other comic book publishers, kept his titles in print, going back to press with occasional reprintings. --