Four Color
#253 - Christmas with Mother Goose
(November 1949)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE, No. 253." Code number is C.M.G. #254-4911. (No "O.S." in code number. Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1949 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
[no title indexed]
Christmas with Mother Goose / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Santa Claus; The Cat and the Fiddle; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
- Reprints
-
in The Rocket's Blast-Comicollector (The S. F. C. A., 1964 ? series) #112 ([August] 1974) [black and white] - in The Golden Christmas Annual (Western, 1975 series) #95076-512 (1975) [Reprinted artwork is recolored and eliminates the large full moon in the background.]
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- Keywords
- cat; Christmas; Christmas stockings; dogs; mice; nursery rhymes; reindeer; sleighs; violins
Indexer Notes
Cover says "by Walt Kelly" on it.
Advice
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Letters
- ?
- Synopsis
- Poem about Christmas.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
The Three Blind Mice Play Santa
The Three Blind Mice / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Three Blind Mice; Jack Horner
- Synopsis
- A cat chasing the Three Blind Mice upsets a mailman, causing him to lose a letter. The mice (who aren't blind) find the letter, which is from Jack Horner to Santa Claus. The mice go to Jack's house to play Santa for him.
- Reprints
Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Green
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Little Boy Blue; Little Girl Green; Rabbit Red; Parrot Pink; Yak Yellow; Owl Orange; Pup Purple
- Synopsis
- Little Girl Green recruits colorful toys to wake Little Boy Blue on Christmas morning.
Indexer Notes
Text and illustrations.
Jenny Wren
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Jenny Wren; Mr. Fox
- Synopsis
- Mr. Fox tries to trick Jenny Wren into becoming his dinner.
Indexer Notes
Text and illustrations.
Simple Simon and the Wiseman
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Wise Man of Gotham; Simple Simon
- Synopsis
- The Wise Man of Gotham bakes a hat full of pies to take to the fair. On the way he meets Simple Simon and the two talk and eat until all the pies are gone.
Indexer Notes
Expanded version of the nursery rhyme "Simple Simon." Text and illustrations.
3 Christmas Bears
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Goldilocks; The Three Bears
- Synopsis
- The Goldilocks and the Three Bears story with a Christmas Day setting.
Indexer Notes
Text and illustrations.
All Around the Christmas Tree
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Synopsis
- The song "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" is given Christmas lyrics.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text and illustrations.
See Saw - Sacar a Down
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Synopsis
- A nursery rhyme.
Indexer Notes
Text and illustrations.
Miss Cross Patch on Christmas Eve
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Miss Cross Patch
- Synopsis
- A young girl has a change of heart on Christmas eve.
Indexer Notes
Text and illustrations.
Jeminy's Christmas
comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Willie Winkie; Goosey Gander; Jeminy Groundhog; Little Red Hen; Jack Rabbit; Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Jeminy Groundhog asks Willie Winkle to wake him up for Christmas. When he wakes, Jeminy thinks it's time for Easter, instead of Christmas.
- Reprints
- in Walt Kelly's Santa Claus Adventures (Innovation, 1990 series) #1 (December 1990)
- in Walt Kelly's Fables and Funnies (Dark Horse, 2016 series) (May 2016)
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Who's in What?
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Walt Kelly ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Letters
- ?
- Synopsis
- Nursery rhyme with Christmas ending.
- Reprints
- in Walt Kelly's Santa Claus Adventures (Innovation, 1990 series) #1 (December 1990)
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Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Christmas with Mother Goose -
1.
Advice
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2.
The Three Blind Mice Play Santa
The Three Blind Mice -
3.
Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Green
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4.
Jenny Wren
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5.
Simple Simon and the Wiseman
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6.
3 Christmas Bears
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7.
All Around the Christmas Tree
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8.
See Saw - Sacar a Down
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9.
Miss Cross Patch on Christmas Eve
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10.
Jeminy's Christmas
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11.
Who's in What?
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12.
Christmas Grace
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