Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." "Rip Van Winkle" is set
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