Rip Van Winkle (1910 film) Catskill Mountains hundreds of years before, and had never been heard of since. The gnomes give Rip some magic schnapps to drink, and under its influence he goes to sleep for 20 years. When he awakes, he is an old man and in ragged clothes. His dog is dead, and his rifle has rusted away. He makes his way as best he can back to the village, and his own home. But there no one knows him. He finds his wife married to another man, his daughter grown to womanhood, and most of his old friends dead and gone. Rip,
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