Gilberton Released May 1947

Classics Illustrated #37 Reprint

This page covers the Reprint edition of Classics Illustrated #37, published by Gilberton and released May 1, 1947. The issue is written by James Fenimore Cooper with artwork by Rudy Palais. Values and details shown here apply specifically to this edition; first-print pricing and the complete cover gallery are on the main issue page.

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Low
$60
Mid
$180
High
$595
Published May 1947

The first of Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," The Pioneers introduces the character of Natty Bumppo, one of literature's most unforgettable heroes, an outsider on the advancing edge of a civilization he can neither abide nor escape. Bumppo makes his first appearance here as an aged hunter living on the fringe of settlement near Templeton (Cooperstown), New York, at the end of the eighteenth century. The Pioneers is a rich chronicle of early frontier life filled with action, adventure, romance, and history. It is also the work that established James Fenimore Cooper as the first great American novelist.