Classics Illustrated #5 [HRN 36]
[April 1947] · [none] · 68 pages
On sale 1947-04
Synopsis
Despite dire warnings, Ishmael and Queequeg sign aboard the Pequod to sail under Captain Ahab. Obsessed to kill the whale that took his leg, Ahab drives the crew in pursuit of Moby Dick despite sense, safety, appeals to humanity, or the pleadings of first mate Starbuck. The final confrontation kills the whale and destroys the ship. Ishmael alone escapes, and the sea rolls on.
Credits
- Script
- Al Kanter, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Pencils
- Louis Zansky
- Inks
- Louis Zansky
- Letters
- Fred Eng
- Adaptation
- Al Kanter
- Original editor
- John Compton
- Original novel
- Herman Melville
Notes
Reprinted in HRN 60, April-June 1949; HRN 62, Aug 1949; HRN 71, May 1950; HRN 87, September 1951 (15¢); HRN 118, April 1954 Data from Bill Jones "Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History", second edition.