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Issue: Four Color #253
Publication Date: November 1949
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Issues: #253 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Christmas with Mother Goose
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView 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 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE, No. 253." Code number is C.M.G. #254-4911. (No "O.S." in code number. Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1949 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Christmas with Mother Goose
Character(s): Santa Claus; The Cat and the Fiddle; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Golden Christmas Annual #95076-512 published January 1975
as Christmas with Mother Goose [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted artwork is recolored and eliminates the large full moon in the background.
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover says "by Walt Kelly" on it.
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Advice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Poem about Christmas.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Golden Christmas Annual #95076-512 published January 1975
as Advice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Kelly's Santa Claus Adventures #1 published December 1990
as Advice [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
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The Three Blind Mice Play Santa

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): The Three Blind Mice
Character(s): Three Blind Mice; Jack Horner
Synopsis: A cat chasing the Three Blind Mice upsets a mailman, causing him to lose a letter. The mice (who aren't blind) find the letter, which is from Jack Horner to Santa Claus. The mice go to Jack's house to play Santa for him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Green

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Little Boy Blue; Little Girl Green; Rabbit Red; Parrot Pink; Yak Yellow; Owl Orange; Pup Purple
Synopsis: Little Girl Green recruits colorful toys to wake Little Boy Blue on Christmas morning.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Jenny Wren

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Jenny Wren; Mr. Fox
Synopsis: Mr. Fox tries to trick Jenny Wren into becoming his dinner.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Simple Simon and the Wiseman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Wise Man of Gotham; Simple Simon
Synopsis: The Wise Man of Gotham bakes a hat full of pies to take to the fair. On the way he meets Simple Simon and the two talk and eat until all the pies are gone.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Expanded version of the nursery rhyme "Simple Simon." Text and illustrations.
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3 Christmas Bears

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Goldilocks; The Three Bears
Synopsis: The Goldilocks and the Three Bears story with a Christmas Day setting.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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All Around the Christmas Tree

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The song "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" is given Christmas lyrics.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Golden Christmas Annual #95076-512 published January 1975
as All Around the Christmas Tree [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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See Saw - Sacar a Down

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A nursery rhyme.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Miss Cross Patch on Christmas Eve

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Miss Cross Patch
Synopsis: A young girl has a change of heart on Christmas eve.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Text and illustrations.
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Jeminy's Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Willie Winkie; Goosey Gander; Jeminy Groundhog; Little Red Hen; Jack Rabbit; Santa Claus
Synopsis: Jeminy Groundhog asks Willie Winkle to wake him up for Christmas. When he wakes, Jeminy thinks it's time for Easter, instead of Christmas.
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In Content Item: FlagWalt Kelly's Santa Claus Adventures #1 published December 1990
as Jeminy's Christmas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Who's in What?

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Nursery rhyme with Christmas ending.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Kelly's Santa Claus Adventures #1 published December 1990
as Who's In What? [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
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Christmas Grace

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): [Traditional ]
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Traditional English Christmas prayer.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Text and Illustrations. This same poem appears in the Pogo newspaper strip on December 24, 1951.

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