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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #520
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Title: Thumbelina
Variant: 15¢ Cover Price
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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: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Thumbelina

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Dik Browne (painting)
Dik Browne (painting)
Dik Browne (painting)
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Thumbelina; Swallow
Full-page, front cover illustration depicts Thumbelina flying over a castle on the swallow's back.
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Miscellaneous
1
Forthcoming Title

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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 of Classics Illustrated Junior, "The King of the Golden River". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.
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Miscellaneous
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Dot-to-Dot Puzzle

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (puzzle directions)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
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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Thumbelina

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (adapter); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
Lin Streeter; William A. Walsh (backgrounds)
Lin Streeter; William A. Walsh (backgrounds)
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Thumbelina; Mole; Mouse; Butterfly; Swallow; Mother; Toads
Thumbelina is a tiny girl who has many adventures with sex and marriage-minded insects, reptiles, and small mammals before finding a fairy prince just her size.
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Miscellaneous
28
The Crow and the Pitcher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
Mike Sekowsky
Mike Sekowsky
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Aesop's Fables
Crow; Dog
A crow drops pebbles into a half-filled pitcher of water until the water level is high enough for him to drink. "You can solve any problem once you set your mind to it," he remarks.
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Miscellaneous
2
Bed in Summer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about a child going to bed before the sun sets.
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Miscellaneous
1
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (traditional author)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Cock Robin; Jenny Wren
Nursery rhyme about the courtship and marriage of two birds.
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1
Subscription Offer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (ad copy)
? (spot illustrations)
? (spot illustrations)
Typeset
Subject Matter
Full-page, inside back cover promo offering Classics Illustrated and Classics Illustrated Junior subscriptions. Spot illustrations depict front covers from both series.
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Thumbelina Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
William A. Walsh
William A. Walsh
?
Subject Matter
childrens
Thumbelina
Full-page, back cover illustration depicts Thumbelina sitting on a throne inside a flower.
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Miscellaneous
1

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