(February-March 1943)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-01-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Helen Meyer
Issue Notes
Copyright, 1943, by Oskar Lebeck.
editing credit from this issue's statement of ownership
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.
editing credit from this issue's statement of ownership
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.
[no title indexed]
cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Casper Emerson ?; Walt Kelly (border and back cover)
- Inks
- Casper Emerson ?; Walt Kelly (border and back cover)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tom Thumb (back cover); Valiant Little Tailor (back cover); Cinderella (back cover); Puss in Boots (back cover)
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover. Cover art very similar to eg. Emerson's confirmed art in Fairy Tale Parade (Dell, 1942 series) #7.
To Our Readers
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the back cover of this fifth issue of Fairy Tale Parade you will find, illustrated in miniature, scenes from a variety...
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Art id by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards. He also states that this is a tribute by Kelly to an artist named Franklin Booth.
Big Claus and Little Claus
comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Hans Christian Andersen (original story); Walt Kelly (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You can borrow two of my six horses...
- Characters
- Little Claus; Big Claus
- Synopsis
- Big Claus kills Little Claus' horse leading to a series of events that enriches Little Claus.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Based on the 1835 short story by Hans Christian Andersen.
The Sleeping Beauty
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Long, long ago there lived a king and queen who gave a...
- Characters
- King; Queen; Sleeping Beauty; Prince
- Synopsis
- A wise woman, not invited to the feast to celebrate the birth of the King and Queen's first child, curses the child to sleep for a hundred years when the child is sixteen years old. A wandering prince breaks the curse and he weds the sleeping beauty.
Indexer Notes
Art id by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once, in the long-ago days, and in the far-away land of...
- Characters
- Ali Baba; Morgiana
- Synopsis
- Ali Baba finds a cache of treasure hidden in a cave by forty thieves.
- Keywords
- Persia
Prince Joel
text story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once upon a time there was a little prince named Joel, who was the...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Prince Joel
- Synopsis
- Prince Joel, lost in the forest, is able to find his way home with the help of some talking flowers.
The Wise Men of Gotham
comic story / 8 pages
The Nose Tree
comic story / 14 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deep in a forest, three old friends...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Jock; Bon; Tam; King Philip; Princess Marianna; Red Jacket
Indexer Notes
Art id by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr on the goldenagecomics.co.uk boards.
The Tail of Rufus Redfox
comic story / 8.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One day Rufus Redfox was walking through the woods admiring...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Rufus Redfox; Squire Beaver; the Boogly Bird
- Synopsis
- Rufus Redfox, proud of his pure red tail, gets caught raiding Squire Beaver's grapes, catches what for, concocts a fable of the Boogly Bird, is scoffed at, goes home, creates a Boogly Bird of tar and feathers, scares Squire Beaver into giving up goodies, is found out, gets his tail tip burnt, the fur will grow in white, now all red foxes have a white-tip tail.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott states: "Tail of Rufus Redfox. 9p. For Fairy Tale Parade #5. Paid Oct. 16, 1943." ~Dave Porta
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
To Our Readers
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2.
Big Claus and Little Claus
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3.
The Sleeping Beauty
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4.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
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5.
Prince Joel
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6.
The Wise Men of Gotham
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7.
The Nose Tree
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8.
The Tail of Rufus Redfox
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9.
[Statement of Ownership]
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10.
["Distant clouds tumble"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Dave Porta
- Claus Simonsen
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