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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #505
Publication Date: February 1954
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Issues: #505 of 82 Issues (118 Printings)
Title: The Sleeping Beauty
Variant: 15¢ Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: Classics Illustrated JuniorView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Famous Authors, Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)
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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
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The Sleeping Beauty

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Inker(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Colorist(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Princess; Prince
Synopsis: Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Princess sleeping and the Prince entering the room through a window.
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In Issue: FlagClassics Illustrated Junior #505 published ?cover
In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated Junior #505 [28] published January 2009
as The Sleeping Beauty [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Forthcoming Title

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Coming Next Month
Synopsis: Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover promo positioned on the left side of the page for the next issue of Classics Illustrated Junior, "The 3 Little Pigs". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.05
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Dot-to-Dot Puzzle

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (puzzle directions)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): What Is This?
Synopsis: Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page.
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Pages: 0.5
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This sequence appears on the inside cover of HRN 548 copies.
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The Sleeping Beauty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adapter); Charles Perrault (original author)
Penciller(s): Peter Costanza (signed)
Inker(s): Peter Costanza (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Princess; Prince; Evil Fairy; King; Queen; Seven Good Fairies; Old Woman; Dwarf in Seven League Boots
Synopsis: An evil fairy believes she has been snubbed at the christening banquet of a newborn princess and places the baby under a dreadful curse. Sixteen years later the curse takes effect when the princess pricks her finger on the distaff of a spinning wheel and falls into a sleep that lasts one hundred years. She marries a Prince who braves the perils of a tangled wood to find her.
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated Junior #505 [28] published January 2009
as The Sleeping Beauty [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 23
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The Real Princess

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adapter); Hans Christian Anderson (original author)
Penciller(s): Peter Costanza
Inker(s): Peter Costanza
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Prince; Princess; King; Queen; Maid; Dwarf; Princess Sky High; Princess Little One; Princess Roly Poly; Princess Sharp Nose
Synopsis: A prince wants to marry a real princess. A young woman who claims to be a real princess is tested by placing a pea under the twenty mattresses on the bed where she will sleep. The next day, she says something hard in the bed kept her awake all night. The Prince rejoices - only a real princess can feel a pea through twenty mattresses.
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated Junior #505 [28] published January 2009
as The Real Princess [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Simple Simon

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (traditional author)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A Blum
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Simple Simon; Pieman
Synopsis: Nursery rhyme about a simpleton who meets a pieman, fishes in a pail of water, and tosses salt on a bird's tail.
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated Junior #505 [28] published January 2009
as Simple Simon [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: There are two kinds of...
Synopsis: Illustrated article about camels.
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated Junior #505 [28] published January 2009
as Camels [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Subscription Offer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Full-page, inside back cover promo offering a Classics Illustrated Junior subscription. Spot illustration depicts the front cover of "The Pied Piper".
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This sequence does not exist in HRN 548 copies.
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Classics Illustrated Order Form

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Order form for Classics Illustrated back issues thru issue #142.

This sequence exists in HRN 548 issues and is located on the inside back cover.
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Sleeping Beauty Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Peter Costanza
Inker(s): Peter Costanza
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Princess; Old Woman
Synopsis: Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the Princess sitting at a spinning wheel while an old woman looks on in astonishment.
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated Junior #505 [28] published January 2009
as Sleeping Beauty Pinup [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This sequence does not exist in HRN 548 issues.
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The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Order form for Classics Illustrated Junior issues, with the highest reorder number of 548.

This sequence is only in HRN 548 issues and is located on the back cover.

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