Classics Illustrated Junior
#518 - The Golden Goose
[25 cent reprint]
(Winter 1969)
Gilberton,
1953 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Classics Illustrated
- Brand
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Classics Illustrated Junior
- Editing
- Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Classics Illustrated Junior (Gilberton, 1953 series) #518 - The Golden Goose.
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[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.
The Golden Goose
comic story / 27 pages
- Script
- ? (adapter); Jacob Grimm (original author); Wilhelm Grimm (original author)
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Simpleton; Simpleton's Mother; Simpleton's Two Brothers; Princess; King; Golden Goose; Little Man; Innkeeper; Innkeeper's Three Daughters; Townspeople
- Synopsis
- After helping a little man to food and drink, Simpleton is rewarded with a Golden Goose. Those who attempt to touch Simpleton's goose become stuck to the bird (or each other) and Simpleton thus becomes the leader of a comical procession through the countryside. Eventually, the goose helps Simpleton win the love of a princess, but they are allowed to marry only after Simpleton accomplishes three seemingly impossible tasks.
- Reprints
-
in Pixi Tales (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 series) #35 - The Golden Goose -
in Eventyrserien (I.K. [Illustrerede klassikere], 1957 series) #6 - Guldgåsen (1957) -
in Sagoserien (Illustrerade klassiker, 1957 series) #6 - Guldgåsen (1957) -
in Junior Eventyrbladet [Eventyrbladet] (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1957 series) #6 - Gullgåsa ([juni 1957]) which is reprinted
-
The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop's Fables / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks
- Mike Sekowsky
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Lion; Mouse
- Synopsis
- After a lion spares his life, a mouse frees the lion from a hunter's net. The lion notes that an act of kindness is never wasted.
- Reprints
Hark! Hark!
text article / 0.5 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Nursery rhyme telling of people coming to town in rags and velvet gowns.
- Reprints
Humpty Dumpty
text article / 0.5 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Nursery rhyme telling of Humpty Dumpty's fall.
- Reprints
Rain
text article / 0.5 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about rain falling on land and at sea.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
[Forthcoming Title]
Coming Next -
2.
[Dot-to-Dot Puzzle]
What Is This? -
3.
The Golden Goose
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4.
The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop's Fables -
5.
Hark! Hark!
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6.
Humpty Dumpty
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7.
Rain
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8.
At the Seaside
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9.
[Subscription Offer]
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10.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Karsten S.
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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