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Issue Details

Issue #103
Published April 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
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Notes Indicia title is "EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE, No. 103." Code number is MGOS 103-464. Copyright 1946 by Oskar Lebeck.

Cover Details - "Easter With Mother Goose"

Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Letters typeset
Notes Says "by Walt Kelly" in typeset letters.

1 page filler "Hot Cross Buns"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Hot Cross Buns."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.

4 page story "Easter With Mother Goose"

Characters Tom Tucker; Bo Peep; Little Boy Blue; Simple Simon; Old King Cole; Humpty Dumpty
Synopsis The characters in Mother Goose Land have an Easter party at Little Boy Blue's home.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Text and illustrations.

8 page story "Buddy Bunny's Problem"

Characters Easter Bunny; Buddy Bunny; Little Red Hen; Dame Duck
Synopsis The Easter Bunny has his son, Buddy Bunny, deliver some Easter baskets, but Buddy has all sorts of problems.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

3 page story "Ten Little Easter Eggs"

Synopsis Ten Easter eggs meet their demise one by one.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page filler "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater"

Characters Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Text and illustrations.

7 page The Three Blind Mice story "The Three Blind Mice and their Easter Gift"

Characters The Three Blind Mice [Minie; Meenie; Moe]; Tommy Tucker; The Cat and the Fiddle
Synopsis The Three Blind Mice (who aren't blind) get a dozen eggs for Tommy Tucker, who's sick in bed.
Genre funny animals
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

2 page activity "Hidden are bunnies numbering ten"

Synopsis A large drawing in which are hidden drawings of ten bunnies, five chicks, and three eggs.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes One large illustration across the centerfold, with text.

3 page story "Inside an Easter Egg"

Synopsis A story combining characters and lines from various nursery rhymes.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Text and illustrations.

5 page story "Through the Town"

Characters Sulky Sue; Tommy Stout; Jack Spratt; Little Miss Muffet; Three Little Kittens; Old Mother Hubbard; Goosey Goosey Gander
Synopsis A boy wanders through a town, asking nursery rhyme characters if they've seen the Easter Bunny.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Text and illustrations.

2 page Wee Willie Winkie story "Wee Willie Helps the Easter Bunny"

Characters Wee Willie Winkie; Easter Bunny
Synopsis The "Wee Willie Winkie" nursery rhyme with an Easter-related ending.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page filler "Fair Easter Day"

Synopsis Poem about Easter eggs.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Text and illustrations.

12 page Humpty Dumpty story "Humpty Dumpty and the Giant"

Characters Humpty Dumpty; Reynard the Fox; the Giant; Easter Bunny
Synopsis The Giant takes Humpty Dumpty up the beanstalk to his castle to have him for supper. Reynard the Fox and the Easter Bunny rescue him.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

1 page filler "I Caught a Hare Alive"

Synopsis A boy catches a rabbit.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Inside back cover; Black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.

1 page filler "Hickety, pickety, my black hen"

Synopsis A poem about a hen laying eggs for Easter.
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Back cover. Text and illustrations.