Four Color
#87 - Fairy Tale Parade
([December] 1945[-April 1946])
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1945-09-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
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A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "FAIRY TALE PARADE, No. 87." Code number is F.T.P. 87-4511. Copyright 1945 by Oskar Lebeck.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sir Howard Bug had lost his heart to lady butterfly
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Sir Howard Bug saves a butterfly from a jay.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, yellow, and white. Art id by Hames Ware (via Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards).
Tiny Folk and the Dragon
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- The wee folk meet a tiny dragon and help him defeat a giant.
- Reprints
-
in Walt Kelly's Fairy Tales (IDW, 2015 series) (2015) - in Walt Kelly's Fables and Funnies (Dark Horse, 2016 series) (May 2016)
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in Un Faux Livre (Delcourt, 2017 series) #[nn] (2017) [Page 3]
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Indexer Notes
Art id by OtherEric on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards.
The Broomstick Bride
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- The King, falling ill, wants his son to be married. The court magician, Morin, conjures up a bride from a broomstick and the prince, not knowing of the deceit, agrees to marry her.
Indexer Notes
Art id by Hames Ware (via Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards).
The Emerald Incense Burner
comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Abdullah
- Synopsis
- Abdullah the baker has to support his seven lazy brothers. He has a dream in which he is told to go to Cairo and seek an enchanted emerald incense burner.
Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Hames Ware refer to this artist as "THE Great Unknown".
The Frog Prince
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A frog rescues a princess's golden ball and becomes her companion, much to her disgust.
Indexer Notes
Art id by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Three little men one summer night
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Three little men try to capture the moon's reflection in a pond.
- Reprints
- in The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Harry N. Abrams, 2009 series) ([September] 2009)
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Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, yellow, and white. Art id by Hames Ware (via Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards). The Toon Treasury reprint credits the art to Walt Kelly.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[A queen follows a fairy]
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1.
["Sir Howard Bug had lost his heart to lady butterfly"]
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2.
Tiny Folk and the Dragon
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3.
The Broomstick Bride
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4.
The Emerald Incense Burner
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5.
The Frog Prince
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6.
["Three little men one summer night"]
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7.
["Tom Titt and his henchmen it seems went aground,"]
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Claus Simonsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Merlin Haas
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
- Dave Porta
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Stangas
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