Classics Illustrated Junior
#520 - Thumbelina
(November 1955)
Gilberton,
1953 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Famous Authors, Ltd.
- Brand
-
Classics Illustrated Junior
- Editing
- Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Thumbelina
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thumbelina; Swallow
- Synopsis
- Full-page, front cover illustration depicts Thumbelina flying over a castle on the swallow's back.
- Reprints
-
in Bildermärchen (BSV - Williams, 1957 series) #49 - Däumelinchen -
in Eventyrserien (I.K. [Illustrerede klassikere], 1957 series) #51 - Tommelise (1960) -
in Junior Eventyrbladet [Eventyrbladet] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #51 - Tommelise ([1960]) -
in Sagoserien (Illustrerade klassiker, 1957 series) #51 - Tummelisa (1960)
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[Forthcoming Title]
Coming Next Month / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- 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 King of the Golden River". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.
[Dot-to-Dot Puzzle]
What Is This? / activity / 0.5 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page.
Thumbelina
comic story / 28 pages
- Script
- ? (adapter); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
- Pencils
- Lin Streeter; William A. Walsh (backgrounds)
- Inks
- Lin Streeter; William A. Walsh (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thumbelina; Mole; Mouse; Butterfly; Swallow; Mother; Toads
- Synopsis
- Thumbelina is a tiny girl who has many adventures with sex and marriage-minded insects, reptiles, and small mammals before finding a fairy prince just her size.
- Reprints
The Crow and the Pitcher
Aesop's Fables / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks
- Mike Sekowsky
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Characters
- Crow; Dog
- Synopsis
- A crow drops pebbles into a half-filled pitcher of water until the water level is high enough for him to drink. "You can solve any problem once you set your mind to it," he remarks.
- Reprints
Bed in Summer
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about a child going to bed before the sun sets.
- Reprints
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
text story / 1 page
- Characters
- Cock Robin; Jenny Wren
- Synopsis
- Nursery rhyme about the courtship and marriage of two birds.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Thumbelina
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1.
[Forthcoming Title]
Coming Next Month -
2.
[Dot-to-Dot Puzzle]
What Is This? -
3.
Thumbelina
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4.
The Crow and the Pitcher
Aesop's Fables -
5.
Bed in Summer
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6.
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
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7.
[Subscription Offer]
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8.
[Thumbelina Pinup]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Kathryn Wright
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