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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #509
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Title: Beauty and the Beast
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Indicia Publisher: Famous Authors, Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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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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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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Beauty and the Beast

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Dik Browne (painting)
Dik Browne (painting)
Dik Browne (painting)
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Beauty; Beast
Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Beast kneeling before Beauty.
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Miscellaneous
1
Forthcoming Title

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (ad copy)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
Typeset
Subject Matter
Coming Next Month
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.
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Dot-to-Dot Puzzle

Activity  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (puzzle directions)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
Typeset
Subject Matter
What Is This?
Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page.
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Beauty and the Beast

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (adapter); Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (original author)
Dik Browne
Dik Browne
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Beauty; Beast; Beauty's Father (merchant); Beauty's Two Sisters
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
29
The Dog and the Shadow

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
William A. Walsh
William A. Walsh
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Aesop's Fables
Dog
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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Miscellaneous
1
First of the Aesop's Fables adaptations in the series.
Ride a Cock-Horse

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (traditional author)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Old Lady; Tommy
Nursery rhyme about a lady at Banubury Cross with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.
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1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
William A. Walsh
William A. Walsh
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Typeset
Subject Matter
informational
The hippopotamus is one of the largest...
Illustrated article about the hippopotamus.
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Miscellaneous
1
Subscription Offer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (ad copy)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
Typeset
Subject Matter
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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Miscellaneous
1
Beauty and the Beast Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Dik Browne
Dik Browne
?
Subject Matter
childrens
Beauty; Beast
Full-page, back cover illustration depicts Beauty and the Prince in a garden.
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Miscellaneous
1

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