Digital Comic Museum - 4C0201-Christmas With Mother Goose (Walt Kelly)


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52 pages, C2C Original scanner unknown. Found online. HA FC added.

Issue: #201
Published: November 1948, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indicia title is "CHRISTMAS with MOTHER GOOSE, No. 201." Code number is M.G.O.S. #201-4811. Copyright 1948 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. On-sale date is publication date in Library of Congress copyright registration.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Christmas With Mother Goose
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Humpty Dumpty The Cat And The Fiddle

Text Story (1 page)	Christmas Day in the Morning
Synopsis:	A frog goes courting Miss Mousie on Christmas Day.

Comic Story (5 pages)	Christmas in the Shoe
Synopsis:	Mr. Nicholas solicits gifts from the residents of Mother Goose Town so that the Old Woman Who Lives in A Shoe's children can have a merry Christmas.
Characters:	The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe [Mrs. Foote] Crooked Man Mother Hubbard Jack Spratt's Wife The Pieman Mr. Nicholas Wiggins

Text Story (1 page)	Polly Flinders
Synopsis:	Polly Flinders is spanked for sitting in the cinders, waiting for Santa Claus.
Characters:	Polly Flinders

Comic Story (7 pages)	A Christmas Alphabet
Synopsis:	Christmas-themed Illustrations for each letter of the alphabet.

Comic Story (1 page)	Deck the Halls
Synopsis:	Illustrated version of "Deck the Halls."
Genre:	Anthropomorphic-funny Animals

Comic Story (6 pages)	Hickory and Dickory Help Santa Claus
Featuring:	Hickory and Dickory
Synopsis:	A pair of mice help Santa when he becomes stuck in the chimney of their house.
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Hickory Dickory Santa Claus

Comic Story (1 page)	Little Jack Horner
Synopsis:	Little Jack Horner shares his Christmas pie with Simple Simon.
Characters:	Little Jack Horner Simple Simon

Text Story (4 pages)	The Year
Synopsis:	The calendar pages for the year, with an illustration and verse for each month.

Text Story (1 page)	A Visit to the Queen
Synopsis:	A nursery rhyme.

Text Story (1 page)	Clap Handies
Synopsis:	A nursery rhyme.

Text Story (1 page)	Tommy Tucker's Carol
Synopsis:	A poem about Tommy Tucker.
Characters:	Tommy Tucker

Comic Story (6 pages)	Three Jovial Welshmen
Synopsis:	Three Welsh men go hunting on Christmas Day and spend more time arguing than hunting.

Comic Story (1 page)	Christmas is Coming
Synopsis:	A Christmas poem.

Text Story (1 page)	Rooster and Hen
Synopsis:	A nursery rhyme.

Comic Story (3 pages)	Simple Simon
Synopsis:	A nursery rhyme.
Characters:	Simple Simon

Text Story (1 page)	Handy Pandy
Synopsis:	A nursery rhyme.
Characters:	Handy Pandy

Text Story (1 page)	The Spratts
Synopsis:	Christmas-themed twist on the "Jack Spratt" nursery rhyme.
Characters:	Jack Spratt Mrs. Spratt (wife)

Text Story (1 page)	Goosey, Goosey Gander
Synopsis:	A Christmas-themed twist on the "Goosey, Goosey Gander" nursery rhyme.
Characters:	Goosey Gander Santa Claus

Text Story (1 page)	Pippin Hill
Synopsis:	Nursery rhyme with a Christmas theme.

Text Story (1 page)	The Christmas Candle
Synopsis:	Nursery rhyme.

Text Story (1 page)	Little Betty Blue
Synopsis:	Nursery rhyme.
Characters:	Little Betty Blue

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Tale of Chip-Chop and his Christmas Good Deed
Synopsis:	Chip-chop the chipmunk gathers trinkets in Santa's workshop for Mr. Crow to distribute to the forest animals. Chip-chop takes the key to the harness chest for Santa's reindeer by mistake and has to retrieve it after Mr. Crow gives it to the raccoon child.
Characters:	Chip-Chop Santa Claus Mr. Crow

Comic Story (1 page)	Banbury Cross
Synopsis:	A Christmas-themed nursery rhyme.

Text Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	The "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling" nursery rhyme.

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