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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #502
Publication Date: January 1969
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Issues: #502 of 82 Issues (118 Printings)
Title: The Ugly Duckling
Is Variant Variant: 25¢ Cover Price, Reprint
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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:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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 Ugly Duckling

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Inker(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Colorist(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Ugly Duckling; Mother Duck
Synopsis: Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Ugly Duckling and the Mother Duck with her ducklings.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover promo positioned on the left side of the page for the next title in the Classics Illustrated Junior series, #503 "Cinderella". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's cover.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (puzzle directions)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, nature
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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The Ugly Duckling

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Toni Blum [as Audrey Bossert] (adapter, see notes); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
Penciller(s): Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)
Inker(s): Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Ugly Duckling; Mother Duck; Hen; Cat; Old Woman; Barnyard Fowl; Farmer; Two Children; Wild Ducks; Swans
Synopsis: The Ugly Duckling is unwanted in the barnyard for no other reason than that of his homeliness. He is teased, harassed, and abused, and leaves home to make his way in the world. He suffers great hardships but the day comes when he matures into a swan, the most beautiful bird of all.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Disclose Notes: Writer/adapter and art credits from an Associated Press report from April 2, 1956, in which Ugly Duckling won a Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Mass Media Award for Best Comic Book for Children Under 8.

Blum and Walsh were not credited in the issue, but were awarded for their work as Audrey Bossert of Pleasantville, New York and William A. Walsh of Colonia, New Jersey.
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The Cat and the Fiddle

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (traditional author)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A Blum
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Cat; Cow; Dog; Dish; Spoon
Synopsis: Nursery rhyme about a fiddle-playing cat, a cow jumping over the moon, a laughing dog, and a runaway dish and spoon.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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
First Line: In the winter, the female bear buries herself...
Synopsis: Illustrated article about the polar bear.
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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 cover of #504 "The Pied Piper".
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Pages: 1
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The Ugly Duckling Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, nature
Character(s): Ugly Duckling
Synopsis: Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the Ugly Duckling gliding over the water as a swan.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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