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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #522 [O]
Publication Date: January 1956
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Issues: #522 [O] of 81 Issues (113 Printings)
Title: The Nightingale
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
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Content Items: 9 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)
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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
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The Nightingale

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): Emperor; Page Boy; Nightingale; Mechanical Bird
Synopsis: Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Emperor gazing upon the nightingale while the page boy looks upon the mechanical bird.
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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
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, "The Gallant Tailor". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.
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Pages: 0.5
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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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The Nightingale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adapter); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
Penciller(s): Dik Browne
Inker(s): Dik Browne
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Emperor; Nightingale; Mechanical Bird; Kitchen Maid; Courtiers
Synopsis: The Emperor is delighted with the song of a nightingale until he receives the gift of a mechanical bird. Delighted with the unusual toy, the Emperor snubs the nightingale and she returns to the forest. When the mechanical bird breaks down from overuse, the Emperor falls deathly ill, but the nightingale returns to the palace and her song restores his health.
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Pages: 27
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The Hare and the Tortoise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
Penciller(s): Dik Browne
Inker(s): Dik Browne
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Aesop's Fables
Character(s): Hare; Tortoise; Forest Animals
Synopsis: The hare and the tortoise run a footrace but the cocksure hare stops to take a nap and the tortoise wins the race, proving that one should never be too sure of oneself.
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The Moon

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Synopsis: Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about the moon.
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Mary Had a Little Lamb

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): Mary; Lamb; Teacher; Children
Synopsis: Nursery rhyme about Mary and her pet lamb.
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Picture to Color

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Color This Picture With Crayons
Character(s): Page Boy; Mechanical Bird
Synopsis: Full-page, inside back cover illustration depicting the page boy carrying the mechanical bird on a cushion.
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Mail Order Titles List/Subscription Offer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (spot illustration)
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Full-page, back cover promo for mail order back titles from the Classics Illustrated Junior series and a subscription offer to the series. Spot illustrations depict front covers from the series.
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