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Issue: Four Color #68
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Title: Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell BookView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "MOTHER GOOSE AND NURSERY RHYME COMICS, No. 68." No code number. Copyright 1945 by Oskar Lebeck.
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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 series
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The Cat and the Fiddle

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics
The Cat and the Fiddle; The Dish and the Spoon
Illustrating the nursery rhyme "Hi Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle."
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Cover has "Illustrated by Walt Kelly" in small typeset letters at bottom.
Hello

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
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?
Subject Matter
Introduction to the comic.
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.
The Mother Goose Birthday Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles H. Herman (credited)
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Mother Goose; Three Little Pigs; Three Blind Mice; Tom Thumb; Ugly Duckling; Goldilocks; The Owl and the Pussycat; Old King Cole; SImple Simon; the Pieman; Yankee Doodle; Little Miss Muffet; Mistress Mary; Little Jack Horner; Georgie Porgie; Humpty Dumpty; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Big Bad Wolf; Jack Spratt; Little Tommy Tucker; The Spider and the Fly; Old Mother Hubbard; Little Boy Blue; the Gingerbread Boy; the Fairy Queen
Mother Goose has a birthday party and invites a large number of nursery rhyme characters.
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Miscellaneous
19
Text and illustrations.
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Oliver Goldsmith [as O. Goldsmith] (credited)
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
A man gets a dog, which bites him. But it's the dog that dies, not the man.
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Miscellaneous
7
The illustrations intentionally contradict the written lines, which are from an 18th century poem.
Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
[Traditional]
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
The nursery rhyme "Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid."
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Miscellaneous
1
Text and illustrations.
Mary Had a Little Lamb

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sarah Hale
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
Mary
The "Mary Had a Little Lamb" nursery rhyme.
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Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the first three lines included. First four lines of the original eight line poem from 1830 included.
Three Blind Mice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
[Traditional]
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
Three Blind Mice
The nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice."
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Miscellaneous
1
Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the entire song is included.
The House That Jack Built

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
[Traditional]
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
The nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built."
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Miscellaneous
5
Text and illustrations.
Such a-do About a Shoe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe looks for more suitable living quarters.
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Miscellaneous
5
Text and illustrations.
Three Little Kittens

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
Three Little Kittens
The nursery rhyme "Three Little Kittens," with an additional page of text at the end.
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Miscellaneous
5
Text and illustrations.
Bo-Peep's Dream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles H. Herman (credited)
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
?
Subject Matter
Little Bo-Peep
Little Bo-Peep has a dream in which she has a magic wand.
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Miscellaneous
4
Text and illustrations.
The End of a Tail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
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?
Subject Matter
A little mouse gets scrubbed from his head to the tip of his tail.
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.
Mother Goose Characters

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
Subject Matter
Mother Goose
A montage of many different characters from Mother Goose rhymes.
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Miscellaneous
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Back cover.

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