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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #563
Publication Date: December 1959
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Issues: #563 of 82 Issues (118 Printings)
Title: The Wishing Well
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: Classics Illustrated JuniorView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Famous Authors, Ltd.
On Sale Date: 1959
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Meyer A. Kaplan (executive editor); Roberta Strauss (editor); Diane Alexander (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: Indexed from copy with Highest Reorder Number of 563 (assumed first printing).
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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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The Wishing Well

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): L. B. Cole (painting)
Inker(s): L. B. Cole (painting)
Colorist(s): L. B. Cole (painting)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, mythological
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Pages: 1
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Coming Next

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Cover of next issue (The Salt Mountain). Also Statement of Ownership and indicia.
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The Wishing Well

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, mythological
Synopsis: A young man discovers a magic ax, a magic walnut and a magic spade and wins the hand of a princess.
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Pages: 28
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Aesop's Fables: The Boy Bathing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Aesop (adapted from)
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, philosophical
Feature(s): Aesop's Fables
Synopsis: A boy is drowning but the man on the shore stops to lecture him.
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There Was a Young Lady Whose Nose

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edward Lear
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, poetry
Synopsis: Limerick by Edward Lear illustrated.
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The Alpaca

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): L. B. Cole
Inker(s): L. B. Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Animal World
Synopsis: Facts about the alpaca.
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): L. B. Cole
Inker(s): L. B. Cole
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Color This Picture with Crayons
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Disclose Notes: Pen and ink version of cover illustration.
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The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for other Classics Illustrated Junior titles that were available. Highest reorder number is 563.
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