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Issue: Four Color #68
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #68 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell BookView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "MOTHER GOOSE AND NURSERY RHYME COMICS, No. 68." No code number. Copyright 1945 by Oskar Lebeck.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Cat and the Fiddle

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics
Character(s): The Cat and the Fiddle; The Dish and the Spoon
Synopsis: Illustrating the nursery rhyme "Hi Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle."
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover has "Illustrated by Walt Kelly" in small typeset letters at bottom.
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Hello

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Introduction to the comic.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.
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The Mother Goose Birthday Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles H. Herman (credited)
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mother Goose; Three Little Pigs; Three Blind Mice; Tom Thumb; Ugly Duckling; Goldilocks; The Owl and the Pussycat; Old King Cole; SImple Simon; the Pieman; Yankee Doodle; Little Miss Muffet; Mistress Mary; Little Jack Horner; Georgie Porgie; Humpty Dumpty; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Big Bad Wolf; Jack Spratt; Little Tommy Tucker; The Spider and the Fly; Old Mother Hubbard; Little Boy Blue; the Gingerbread Boy; the Fairy Queen
Synopsis: Mother Goose has a birthday party and invites a large number of nursery rhyme characters.
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Pages: 19
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Oliver Goldsmith [as O. Goldsmith] (credited)
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man gets a dog, which bites him. But it's the dog that dies, not the man.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The illustrations intentionally contradict the written lines, which are from an 18th century poem.
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Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): [Traditional]
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The nursery rhyme "Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid."
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Mary Had a Little Lamb

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sarah Hale
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mary
Synopsis: The "Mary Had a Little Lamb" nursery rhyme.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the first three lines included. First four lines of the original eight line poem from 1830 included.
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Three Blind Mice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): [Traditional]
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Three Blind Mice
Synopsis: The nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice."
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the entire song is included.
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The House That Jack Built

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): [Traditional]
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built."
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Such a-do About a Shoe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Synopsis: The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe looks for more suitable living quarters.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Three Little Kittens

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Three Little Kittens
Synopsis: The nursery rhyme "Three Little Kittens," with an additional page of text at the end.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Bo-Peep's Dream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles H. Herman (credited)
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Little Bo-Peep
Synopsis: Little Bo-Peep has a dream in which she has a magic wand.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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The End of a Tail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A little mouse gets scrubbed from his head to the tip of his tail.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.
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Mother Goose Characters

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mother Goose
Synopsis: A montage of many different characters from Mother Goose rhymes.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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