Classics Illustrated Junior (1953-1971) 1st Printing 534
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$3.00
The Golden Touch. Cover by Dik Browne. Stories and art by William A. Walsh and Alex A. Blum. Gilberton expanded its successful Classics Illustrated line with this series devoted to famous fairy tales. The legendary King Midas is granted the gift of turning everything he touches into gold, but soon learns that this gift is a curse. Plus Aesop's fable about Stone Soup, and a look at the turtle. Cover by Dik Browne, later the cartoonist for Hagar the Horrible. The Golden Touch; Aesop's Fables: Stone Soup; Mistress Mary; The Animal World: The Turtle; Color This Picture With Crayons. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.


