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Issue Details

Issue #520
Published November 1955
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Thumbelina"

Characters Thumbelina; Swallow
Synopsis Full-page, front cover illustration depicts Thumbelina flying over a castle on the swallow's back.
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, "The King of the Golden River". 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

28 page story "Thumbelina"

Characters Thumbelina; Mole; Mouse; Butterfly; Swallow; Mother; Toads
Synopsis Thumbelina is a tiny girl who has many adventures with sex and marriage-minded insects, reptiles, and small mammals before finding a fairy prince just her size.
Genre Children
Script ? (adapter); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
Letters Typeset

2 page Aesop's Fables story "The Crow and the Pitcher"

Characters Crow; Dog
Synopsis A crow drops pebbles into a half-filled pitcher of water until the water level is high enough for him to drink. "You can solve any problem once you set your mind to it," he remarks.
Genre Children
Script ? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
Letters Typeset

1 page text article "Bed in Summer"

Synopsis Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about a child going to bed before the sun sets.
Genre Children
Script Robert Louis Stevenson
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset

1 page text article "Cock Robin and Jenny Wren"

Characters Cock Robin; Jenny Wren
Synopsis Nursery rhyme about the courtship and marriage of two birds.
Genre Children
Script ? (traditional author)
Pencils Alex A. Blum
Inks Alex A. Blum
Letters Typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Subscription Offer"

Synopsis Full-page, inside back cover promo offering Classics Illustrated and Classics Illustrated Junior subscriptions. Spot illustrations depict front covers from both series.
Script ? (ad copy)
Pencils ? (spot illustrations)
Inks ? (spot illustrations)
Letters Typeset

1 page illustration "Thumbelina Pinup"

Characters Thumbelina
Synopsis Full-page, back cover illustration depicts Thumbelina sitting on a throne inside a flower.
Genre Children