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Issue Details

Issue	#508
Published	May 1954
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"

Characters	Goldilocks; Three Bears
Synopsis	Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the three bears finding Goldilocks in Baby Bear's bed.
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 of Classics Illustrated Junior, "Beauty and the Beast". 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.
Genre	Children
Script	? (puzzle directions)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

30 page story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"

Characters	Goldilocks; Mother; Three Bears; Squirrel; Bird
Synopsis	Goldilocks makes use of the food, chairs, and beds of three bears. When caught, she runs home to her mother and later promises the bears she will never to do it again.
Genre	Children
Script	? (adapter); Robert Southey (original author)
Letters	Typeset

1 page text article "Foreign Lands"

Synopsis	Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" that tells of a youngster climbing a tree and gazing upon the countryside.
Genre	Children
Script	Robert Louis Stevenson
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

1 page text article "The animal we usually call the buffalo..."

Synopsis	Illustrated article about the bison.
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 Classics Illustrated Junior subscription offer. 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 "Goldilock and the Three Bears Pinup"

Characters	Three Bears; Goldilocks; Mother; Squirrel; Bird
Synopsis	Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the story's several characters dancing in a circle.
Genre	Children