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Issue Details

Issue	#506
Published	March 1954
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "The 3 Little Pigs"

Characters	Three Pigs; Wolf
Synopsis	Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the wolf watching the pigs.
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, "Jack and the Beanstalk". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's 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.
Genre	Children
Script	? (puzzle directions)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

30 page story "The 3 Little Pigs"

Characters	Three Pigs; Mother Pig; Wolf
Synopsis	A hungry wolf waits for an opportunity to devour three pigs but his several attempts to capture them are thwarted.
Genre	Children
Script	? (adapter); James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (original author)
Letters	Typeset

1 page text article "I Saw a Ship A-Sailing"

Characters	White Mice; Duck
Synopsis	Nursery rhyme about a ship manned by mice and captained by a duck.
Genre	Children
Script	? (traditional author)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

1 page text article "On a hunt, the cheetah..."

Synopsis	Illustrated article about the cheetah.
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 subscription offer for the Classics Illustrated Junior series. Spot illustration depicts front cover of "The Pied Piper".
Script	? (ad copy)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

1 page illustration "The 3 Little Pigs Pinup"

Characters	Three Pigs
Synopsis	Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the three pigs and a wheelbarrow.
Genre	Children