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Issue Details

Issue #509
Published June 1954
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Beauty and the Beast"

Characters Beauty; Beast
Synopsis Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Beast kneeling before Beauty.
Genre Children
Pencils Dik Browne ? (painting)
Inks Dik Browne ? (painting)
Colors Dik Browne ? (painting)
Letters Typeset

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 Junior series, "Little Red Riding Hood". 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

29 page story "Beauty and the Beast"

Characters Beauty; Beast; Beauty's Father (merchant); Beauty's Two Sisters
Synopsis Beauty's father picks a rose in the Beast's garden and the price is his daughter, Beauty. She is carried to the Beast's palace, and enjoys every luxury. Eventually, she overcomes her fear of the Beast and looks forward to his company. One day, she returns home to tend her ailing father, and returns to the palace to find the Beast dying. She is heartbroken but confesses her love by accepting his offer of marriage. The Beast is transformed into a Prince.
Genre Children
Script ? (adapter); Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (original author)
Pencils Dik Browne ?
Inks Dik Browne ?
Letters Typeset

1 page Aesop's Fables story "The Dog and the Shadow"

Characters Dog
Synopsis A greedy dog drops his piece of meat into a stream when he thinks the reflection he sees in its depths is carrying a bigger piece. He realizes he should have been content with what he had.
Genre Children
Script ? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
Letters Typeset
Notes First of the Aesop's Fables adaptations in the series.

1 page text article "Ride a Cock-Horse"

Characters Old Lady; Tommy
Synopsis Nursery rhyme about a lady at Banubury Cross with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.
Genre Children
Script ? (traditional author)
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset

1 page text article "The hippopotamus is one of the largest..."

Synopsis Illustrated article about the hippopotamus.
Genre Fact
Pencils William A. Walsh
Inks William A. Walsh
Letters Typeset

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 "Beauty and the Beast Pinup"

Characters Beauty; Beast
Synopsis Full-page, back cover illustration depicts Beauty and the Prince in a garden.
Genre Children
Pencils Dik Browne ?
Inks Dik Browne ?