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Issue: Four Color #1282
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Title: Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/21/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Walt Disney's BABES IN TOYLAND, No. 1282." Code number is BABES IN T. O.S. #1282-621. Copyright 1961 by Walt Disney Productions.

Adapted from the 1961 Walt Disney movie "Babes in Toyland."

No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "February-April 1962" cover date.

On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.

Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
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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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Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Tom Piper (photo of Tommy Sands); Mary Contrary (photo of Annette Funicello)
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Babes in Toyland

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Tom Piper (photo of Tommy Sands); Mary Contrary (photo of Annette Funicello); Barnaby (photo of Ray Bolger); Gonzorgo (photo of Henry Calvin); Roderigo (photo of Gene Sheldon)
Preview of the story
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Inside front cover; black and white. Six photos from the movie with brief typeset text underneath.
Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Mother Goose; Sylvester (goose); Barnaby; Mary Contrary; Tom Piper; Bo-Peep; Roderigo; Gonzorgo; Little Boy Blue; The Toymaker; Grumio
In Mother Goose Land, Tom Piper and Mary Contrary wish to wed, but miser Barnaby has Tom kidnapped and Mary's sheep stolen and taken to the Forest of No Return. By doing so he plans to force Mary to marry him. Tom returns and he and Mary go to the Forest of No Return, where they are taken by talking trees to Toyland.
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FlagWalt Disney Comics Digest #2 published July 1968
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Dialogue is written in rhyme. Adapted from the 1961 Walt Disney movie "Babes in Toyland." The movie is a highly-revised version of the 1903 operetta "Babes in Toyland," composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough.
The Dancing Trees

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Little Bo-Peep (photo of Ann Jillian) (cameo)
Description of how the tree costumes in the movie were made.
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inside back cover; black and white. Text and three production photos.
When Toys Come to Life

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Miscellaneous
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Back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 5.
Daisy B-B Gun Gift Ideas!

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Daisy B-B Guns
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Miscellaneous
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Back cover. Illustrated ad for Daisy B-B Guns. Models No. 1894, 25, 94, and 179 depicted. Daisy Manufacturing Co., Rogers, Ark. This sequence replaces sequence 4 on some copies.

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