Issue | #505 |
Published | February 1954 |
Frequency | Monthly |
Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor) |
Characters | Princess; Prince |
Synopsis | Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Princess sleeping and the Prince entering the room through a window. |
Genre | Children |
Pencils | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
Inks | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
Colors | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover promo positioned on the left side of the page for the next issue of Classics Illustrated Junior, "The 3 Little Pigs". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
Inks | Alex A. Blum |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page. |
Genre | Children |
Script | ? (puzzle directions) |
Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
Inks | Alex A. Blum |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Princess; Prince; Evil Fairy; King; Queen; Seven Good Fairies; Old Woman; Dwarf in Seven League Boots |
Synopsis | An evil fairy believes she has been snubbed at the christening banquet of a newborn princess and places the baby under a dreadful curse. Sixteen years later the curse takes effect when the princess pricks her finger on the distaff of a spinning wheel and falls into a sleep that lasts one hundred years. She marries a Prince who braves the perils of a tangled wood to find her. |
Genre | Children |
Script | ? (adapter); Charles Perrault (original author) |
Pencils | Peter Costanza (signed) |
Inks | Peter Costanza (signed) |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Prince; Princess; King; Queen; Maid; Dwarf; Princess Sky High; Princess Little One; Princess Roly Poly; Princess Sharp Nose |
Synopsis | A prince wants to marry a real princess. A young woman who claims to be a real princess is tested by placing a pea under the twenty mattresses on the bed where she will sleep. The next day, she says something hard in the bed kept her awake all night. The Prince rejoices - only a real princess can feel a pea through twenty mattresses. |
Genre | Children |
Script | ? (adapter); Hans Christian Anderson (original author) |
Pencils | Peter Costanza |
Inks | Peter Costanza |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Simple Simon; Pieman |
Synopsis | Nursery rhyme about a simpleton who meets a pieman, fishes in a pail of water, and tosses salt on a bird's tail. |
Genre | Children |
Script | ? (traditional author) |
Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
Inks | Alex A Blum |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Illustrated article about camels. |
Genre | Fact |
Pencils | William A. Walsh |
Inks | William A. Walsh |
Letters | Typeset |
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 |
Characters | Princess; Old Woman |
Synopsis | Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the Princess sitting at a spinning wheel while an old woman looks on in astonishment. |
Genre | Children |
Pencils | Peter Costanza |
Inks | Peter Costanza |