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Issue Details

Issue #[nn]
Published 1868
Cover Price [none]
Pages 134
Editing ?
Notes Auction at cqout.com in August 2007 states "Described and ornamented by Harry Rogers." Also states that "Page 13 of Cat and Mouse is missing as it is from all copies." [notes added by Peter Croome, August 2007]

Cover Details

Pencils Wilhelm Busch
Inks Wilhelm Busch
Colors John Leighton ?; Harry Rogers ?
Letters typeset

13 page story "Life of Diogenes"

Synopsis Diogenes is sleeping in a barrel when two boys decide to roll it down a hill with him in it.
Genre humor
Script Wilhelm Busch; Harry Rogers (translator)
Pencils Wilhelm Busch
Inks Wilhelm Busch
Letters typeset
Notes Victorian style comic -- short text beneath each picture, no word balloons
Reprinted reprinted & translated from "Diogenes und die bosen Buben von Korinth", 1862

15 page story "Cat and Mouse"

Synopsis A cat chasing a mouse, wrecking the house.
Genre humor; funny animal
Script Wilhelm Busch; Harry Rogers (translator)
Pencils Wilhelm Busch
Inks Wilhelm Busch
Letters typeset
Notes Victorian style comic -- short text beneath each picture, no word balloons
Reprinted reprinted & translated from "Katze und Maus", 1864

17 page story "The Disobedient Children Who Stole Sugar-Bread"

Synopsis Two ogres capture two children with a trap baited with sugar-bread, take them home to cook them, but the children escape and kill the ogres instead.
Genre humor
Script Wilhelm Busch; Harry Rogers (translator)
Pencils Wilhelm Busch
Inks Wilhelm Busch
Letters typeset
Notes Victorian style comic -- short text beneath each picture, no word balloons
Reprinted reprinted & translated from ?? (unknown to indexer)

16 page story "Ice-Peter"

Synopsis A boy goes ice skating on a pond, falls in and freezes to solid ice. His parents find him, unthaw him, but he melts to nothing but a puddle of water.
Genre humor
Script Wilhelm Busch; Harry Rogers (translator)
Pencils Wilhelm Busch
Inks Wilhelm Busch
Letters typeset
Notes Victorian style comic -- short text beneath each picture, no word balloons
Reprinted reprinted & translated from "Der Eispeter", 1864