Four Color
#1282 - Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland
([February-April] 1962)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-11-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell [stamp]
- Editing
- Helen Meyer (editor)
Issue 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).
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).
Babes in Toyland
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Characters
- 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)
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Six photos from the movie with brief typeset text underneath.
Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland
comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Ward Kimball; Joe Rinaldi; Carl Fallberg (comic adaptation); Lowell S. Hawley (screenplay)
- Pencils
- John Ushler
- Inks
- John Ushler
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop; ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Mother Goose; Sylvester (goose); Barnaby; Mary Contrary; Tom Piper; Bo-Peep; Roderigo; Gonzorgo; Little Boy Blue; The Toymaker; Grumio
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
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in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Western, 1968 series) #1 (June 1968) [different layout], #2 (July 1968) [layout changed]
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Indexer Notes
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
filler / 1 page
- Characters
- Little Bo-Peep (photo of Ann Jillian) (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Description of how the tree costumes in the movie were made.
Indexer Notes
inside back cover; black and white. Text and three production photos.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland
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1.
Babes in Toyland
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2.
Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland
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3.
The Dancing Trees
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4.
When Toys Come to Life
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5.
Daisy B-B Gun Gift Ideas!
Daisy B-B Guns
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Fred Beels
- Chris Boyko
- John Censullo
- Pat Conolly
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Alan Hutchinson
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
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