Classics Illustrated Junior #502 - The Ugly Duckling [25¢]

(Summer 1969)

Coming Next Month (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

What Is This? / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

? (puzzle directions)

Pencils

Alex A. Blum

Inks

Alex A. Blum

Letters

typeset

Genre

animal

Synopsis

Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page.

The Ugly Duckling (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 30 pages (report information)

Script

Toni Blum [as Audrey Bossert] (adapter, see notes); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)

Pencils

Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)

Inks

Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

children

Characters

Ugly Duckling; Mother Duck; Hen; Cat; Old Woman; Barnyard Fowl; Farmer; Two Children; Wild Ducks; Swans

Synopsis

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.

Reprints

• in Bildermärchen (BSV - Williams, 1957 series) #1 - Das hässliche Entlein
• in Clasicos Infantiles (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1955 series) #1 - El patito feo
• in Eventyrserien (I.K. [Illustrerede klassikere], 1957 series) #1 - Den grimme ælling (1957)
• in Sagoserien (Illustrerade klassiker, 1957 series) #1 - Den fula ankungen (1957)
• in Junior Eventyrbladet [Eventyrbladet] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #1 - Den stygge andungen ([april 1957])
which is reprinted
• in Eventyrbladet (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #1 - Den stygge andungen ([1970]) [kuttet fire sider]

Indexer Notes

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 (Table of Contents: 4)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

? (traditional author)

Pencils

Alex A. Blum

Inks

Alex A Blum

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Cat; Cow; Dog; Dish; Spoon

Synopsis

Nursery rhyme about a fiddle-playing cat, a cow jumping over the moon, a laughing dog, and a runaway dish and spoon.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

William A. Walsh

Inks

William A. Walsh

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the winter, the female bear buries herself...

Genre

non-fiction; animal

Synopsis

Illustrated article about the polar bear.

Reprints

• in Bildermärchen (BSV - Williams, 1957 series) #1 - Das hässliche Entlein

Subscribe Now! Today! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[The Ugly Duckling Pinup] (Table of Contents: 7)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Genre

animal

Characters

Ugly Duckling

Synopsis

Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the Ugly Duckling gliding over the water as a swan.