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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #509

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Publication Date: January 1969

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Issues: #509 of 81 Issues (113 Printings)

Title: Beauty and the Beast

Variant: 25¢ Cover Price, Reprint

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Gilberton

Brand: Classics Illustrated Junior

Indicia Publisher: Famous Authors, Ltd.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.25 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
9 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden and Silver Age U. S.

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Format Notes:

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2 Classics Illustrated Junior #509 [15¢ Cover Price]

2 Classics Illustrated Junior #509 [25¢ Cover Price, Reprint]

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Content Items (9 total)

Beauty and the Beast

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: childrens

Character(s): Beauty; Beast

Synopsis: Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Beast kneeling before Beauty.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Forthcoming Title

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

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 in the Classics Illustrated Junior series, "Little Red Riding Hood". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.5

Dot-to-Dot Puzzle

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

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

Beauty and the Beast

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ? (adapter); Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (original author)

Penciller(s): Dik Browne

Inker(s): Dik Browne

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens

Character(s): Beauty; Beast; Beauty's Father (merchant); Beauty's Two Sisters

Synopsis: Beauty's father picks a rose in the Beast's garden and the price is his daughter, Beauty. She is carried to the Beast's palace, and enjoys every luxury. Eventually, she overcomes her fear of the Beast and looks forward to his company. One day, she returns home to tend her ailing father, and returns to the palace to find the Beast dying. She is heartbroken but confesses her love by accepting his offer of marriage. The Beast is transformed into a Prince.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 29

The Dog and the Shadow

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ? (adapter); Aesop (original author)

Penciller(s): William A. Walsh

Inker(s): William A. Walsh

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens

Feature(s): Aesop's Fables

Character(s): Dog

Synopsis: A greedy dog drops his piece of meat into a stream when he thinks the reflection he sees in its depths is carrying a bigger piece. He realizes he should have been content with what he had.

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Pages: 1

Notes: First of the Aesop's Fables adaptations in the series.

Ride a Cock-Horse

Text Article 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: childrens

Character(s): Old Lady; Tommy

Synopsis: Nursery rhyme about a lady at Banubury Cross with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.

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Pages: 1

[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

First Line: The hippopotamus is one of the largest...

Synopsis: Illustrated article about the hippopotamus.

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Pages: 1

Subscription Offer

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 front cover of "The Pied Piper".

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Pages: 1

Beauty and the Beast Pinup

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Dik Browne

Inker(s): Dik Browne

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens

Character(s): Beauty; Beast

Synopsis: Full-page, back cover illustration depicts Beauty and the Prince in a garden.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1