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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #502
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Title: The Ugly Duckling
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Indicia Publisher: Famous Authors, Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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The Ugly Duckling

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Dik Browne ? (painting)
Dik Browne ? (painting)
Dik Browne ? (painting)
typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Ugly Duckling; Mother Duck
Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Ugly Duckling and the Mother Duck with her ducklings.
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Miscellaneous
1
Coming Next Month

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (ad copy)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
typeset
Subject Matter
Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover promo positioned on the left side of the page for the next title in the Classics Illustrated Junior series, #503 "Cinderella". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's cover.
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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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Miscellaneous
0.5
The Ugly Duckling

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Toni Blum [as Audrey Bossert] (adapter, see notes); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)
Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Ugly Duckling; Mother Duck; Hen; Cat; Old Woman; Barnyard Fowl; Farmer; Two Children; Wild Ducks; Swans
The Ugly Duckling is unwanted in the barnyard for no other reason than that of his homeliness. He is teased, harassed, and abused, and leaves home to make his way in the world. He suffers great hardships but the day comes when he matures into a swan, the most beautiful bird of all.
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Miscellaneous
30
Writer/adapter and art credits from an Associated Press report from April 2, 1956, in which Ugly Duckling won a Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Mass Media Award for Best Comic Book for Children Under 8.

Blum and Walsh were not credited in the issue, but were awarded for their work as Audrey Bossert of Pleasantville, New York and William A. Walsh of Colonia, New Jersey.
The Cat and the Fiddle

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (traditional author)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A Blum
?
typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Cat; Cow; Dog; Dish; Spoon
Nursery rhyme about a fiddle-playing cat, a cow jumping over the moon, a laughing dog, and a runaway dish and spoon.
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
William A. Walsh
William A. Walsh
?
typeset
Subject Matter
informational
In the winter, the female bear buries herself...
Illustrated article about the polar bear.
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Miscellaneous
1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (ad copy)
Alex A. Blum
Alex A. Blum
typeset
Subject Matter
Full-page, inside back cover promo offering a Classics Illustrated Junior subscription. Spot illustration depicts the cover of #504 "The Pied Piper".
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Miscellaneous
1
The Ugly Duckling Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens
Ugly Duckling
Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the Ugly Duckling gliding over the water as a swan.
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Miscellaneous
1

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