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Issue: Classics Illustrated Junior #504
Publication Date: January 1969
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Issues: #504 of 82 Issues (118 Printings)
Title: The Pied Piper
Is Variant Variant: 25¢ Cover Price, HRN 576
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: Classics Illustrated JuniorView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Famous Authors, Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (1 story, 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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The Pied Piper

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Inker(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Colorist(s): Dik Browne ? (painting)
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Pied Piper; Children
Synopsis: Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Pied Piper playing his pipe for a group of children.
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Pages: 1
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Forthcoming Title

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Coming Next Month
Synopsis: Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover promo positioned on the left side of the page for the next issue of Classics Illustrated Junior, "The Sleeping Beauty". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Dot-to-Dot Puzzle

Activity  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (puzzle directions)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): What Is This?
Synopsis: Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page.
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Pages: 0.5
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The Pied Piper

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adapter); Robert Browning (original author)
Penciller(s): Dik Browne (signed)
Inker(s): Dik Browne ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Synopsis: The Pied Piper rids the town of Hamelin of rats, but is cheated of his fee by the mayor and his councilmen. In revenge, he leads the children of Hamelin to a mountain that closes around them.
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Pages: 30
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Sing a Song of Sixpence

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (traditional author)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): King; Queen; Maid; Blackbirds
Synopsis: Nursery rhyme about a pie filled with twenty-four singing blackbirds.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): William A. Walsh
Inker(s): William A. Walsh
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: We can tell the African elephant...
Synopsis: Illustrated article about elephants.
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Pages: 1
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Subscription Order

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Alex A. Blum
Inker(s): Alex A. Blum
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Full-page, inside back cover promo offering a Classics Illustrated Junior subscription. Spot illustration depicts the front cover of "The Pied Piper".
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The Pied Piper Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Dik Browne ?
Inker(s): Dik Browne ?
Colorist(s): Dik Browne ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Synopsis: Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the Pied Piper and a dancing rat.
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Pages: 1

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