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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #540
Publication Date: July 1957
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Issues: #540 of 82 Issues (118 Printings)
Title: The Tinder-Box
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: Classics IllustratedView 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: 10 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)
Disclose Notes: There is an HRN 576 edition, dated September 1965 in the indicia. For this edition the indexed sequences 1, 2, and 3 are replaced with a one-page "What Is It?" activity.
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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 Tinder-Box

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh (painting)
Inker(s): William A. Walsh (painting)
Colorist(s): William A. Walsh (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, mythological
Character(s): Princess; Dog
Synopsis: A sleeping princess is carried away from her castle by a large dog.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Front cover. Author Hans Christian Andersen is credited immediately beneath the title.
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Coming Next Month

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Synopsis: Half-page, vertically-oriented, black-and-white promo positioned on the left side of page for the next title in the Classics Illustrated Junior series, "Snow White and Rose Red". Cover and brief synopsis are included.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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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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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Found in HRN 559 editions, replacing the "Coming Next Month" sequence in earlier printings.
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Dog

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: activity, childrens
Feature(s): What Is This?
Synopsis: Half-page, vertically-oriented, black-and-white dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of page depicting a dog. Instructions for completing and coloring the puzzle are included.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Tinder-Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adaptor); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, mythological
Character(s): Soldier; Witch; Three Dogs; Princess; King; Queen; Courtiers
Synopsis: A soldier acquires a magic tinder-box capable of summoning three huge dogs to do his bidding. Over several nights, he orders the dogs to bring him a sleeping princess locked in a tower by her parents who fear she will marry a common soldier. When the princess's nightly whereabouts are discovered by the King and Queen, the soldier is arrested and sentenced to death. On the scaffold, he summons the three dogs and his life is saved. He marries the princess.
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Pages: 28
Disclose Notes: Art identification by William B. Jones Jr.
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The Lioness and Her Family

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adaptor); Aesop (original author)
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, mythological
Feature(s): Aesop's Fables
Character(s): Lioness; Mouse; Rabbit; Frog
Synopsis: When several animals boast of their large families, a lioness tells them she has only one offspring - but that one is a lion, the king of beasts.
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Pages: 2
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Hickety, Pickety

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adaptor); Mother Goose (original author)
Penciller(s): Alex Blum ? (illustration)
Inker(s): Alex Blum ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous, poetry
Character(s): Black Hen; Gentlemen Visitors
Synopsis: A black hen lays eggs every day for visiting gentlemen.
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The Kinkajou

Story  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, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Animal World
Synopsis: Five panel factual account of the habits, home, and diet of the kinkajou.
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The Tinder-Box

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: activity, childrens
Feature(s): Color This Picture With Crayons
Character(s): Soldier; Princess; Three Dogs
Synopsis: Soldier, Princess, and Three Dogs in a woodland setting. Black-and-white, line drawn illustration to be colored with crayons.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Art identification by William B. Jones Jr.

Also appears in HRN 576 edition.
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The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Synopsis: Full-page, color promo for ordering back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior. Four covers, list of current titles, and a cut-out order form are included.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Found in HRN559 editions and possibly earlier editions.

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