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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #522

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Publication Date: January 1968

Issue #522 [O]
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- #522 [HRN 576]
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Issues: #522 of 81 Issues (113 Printings)

Title: The Nightingale

Variant: 25¢ Cover Price, HRN 576

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Publisher: Flag

Gilberton

Brand: Classics Illustrated Junior

Indicia Publisher: Classics Illustrated

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)
9 (2 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 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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Classics Illustrated Junior #522 [O] [15¢ Cover Price]

Classics Illustrated Junior #522 [25¢ Cover Price, HRN 576]

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Content Items (9 total)

The Nightingale

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): 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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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

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

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

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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Pages: 0.5

The Nightingale

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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

The Hare and the Tortoise

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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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Pages: 3

The Moon

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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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Pages: 1

Mary Had a Little Lamb

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): Mary; Lamb; Teacher; Children

Synopsis: Nursery rhyme about Mary and her pet lamb.

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Pages: 1

Picture to Color

Activity on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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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Pages: 1

Mail Order Titles List/Subscription Offer

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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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Pages: 1