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Issue Details

Issue #507
Published April 1954
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Jack and the Beanstalk"

Characters Jack; Mother
Synopsis Full-page, front cover illustration depicts Jack descending the beanstalk with the talking harp while his mother watches.
Pencils Dik Browne (painting)
Inks Dik Browne (painting)
Colors Dik Browne (painting)
Letters Typeset
Notes Art and story credits for issue from Jack Lane reprint.
Reprinted in Classics Illustrated Junior (Jack Lane Productions Inc., 2004 series) #27 (507)

Half page Coming Next Month promo (ad from the publisher) "Forthcoming Title"

Synopsis Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover promo positioned on the left side of the page for the next issue in the Classics Illustrated series, "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.
Script ? (ad copy)
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset

Half page What Is This? activity "Dot-to-Dot Puzzle"

Synopsis Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page.
Script ? (puzzle directions)
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset

30 page story "Jack and the Beanstalk"

Characters Jack; Mother; Father; Fairy; Giant; Giantess
Synopsis Jack exchanges the family cow for a few beans. His mother is furious and tosses the beans out the window. The next morning, Jack finds a beanstalk growing to the clouds and climbs it. In the clouds, he discovers a land dominated by a cruel Giant. On several trips up and down the beanstalk, Jack steals the Giant's bags of gold, his magic hen, and his talking harp. The Giant attempts to pursue Jack down the beanstalk but falls to his death. A good fairy restores Jack's long-lost father, a knight who has been serving for many years in the wars.
Genre Children
Script ? (adapter); William Godwin (original author)
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Classics Illustrated Junior (Jack Lane Productions Inc., 2004 series) #27 (507)

1 page text article "My Shadow"

Synopsis Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about a child's shadow.
Genre Children
Script Robert Louis Stevenson
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Classics Illustrated Junior (Jack Lane Productions Inc., 2004 series) #27 (507). Poem was re-typeset.

1 page text article "The great apes are the animals..."

Synopsis Illustrated article about the gorilla.
Genre Fact
Pencils William A. Walsh
Inks William A. Walsh
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Classics Illustrated Junior (Jack Lane Productions Inc., 2004 series) #27 (507).

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Subscription Offer"

Synopsis Full-page, inside back cover promo offering a Classics Illustrated Junior subscription. Spot illustration depicts the front cover of "The Pied Piper".
Script ? (ad copy)
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset

1 page illustration "Jack and the Beanstalk Pinup"

Characters Jack; Giant
Synopsis Full-page, back cover illustration depicts Jack carrying the magic hen and running away from the Giant.
Genre Children
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Reprinted in Classics Illustrated Junior (Jack Lane Productions Inc., 2004 series) #27 (507) [as coloring pin-up]