Rip Van Winkle (1903 film) Rip Van Winkle (1903 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1903 American short black-and-white silent compilation film written and directed by William K.L. Dickson. It is adapted from the play by his friend and investor Joseph Jefferson with Dion Boucicault based on the story of the same name by Washington Irving. The film features Joseph Jefferson as a ne'er-do-well, who wanders off one day into the Kaatskill mountains where he drinks some of a group odd men's mysterious brew and passes out only to find when waking up that 20 years have passed. The film is compiled from a series
Horror comics ran through "Prize Comics" #52 (April 1945) before becoming a humor series and then being revived in horrific form in the series "Frankenstein" #18-33 (March 1952 - November 1954). Gilberton Publications' 60-page "Classic Comics" #12 (June 1943) adapted Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" as a backup feature to Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" in a package titled "Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman". The next issue, "Classic Comics" #13 (August 1943), adapted Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" as the full-length story "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", making it