Publishers / Dell / Four Color (1942) / #172
172November 1947
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Four Color #172

Dell · November 1947 · on sale 1947-10-16

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Identification plate

Series
Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)
Issue
#172
Issue title
Christmas With Mother Goose
Publication date
November 1947
Key date
1947-11-00
On-sale date
1947-10-16
Indicia publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Christmas With Mother Goosecover1pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellyThe Three Blind Mice [Miney; Meeney; Moe]
1Rememberingtext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
2Mother Goose Helps Santacomic story10script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellySanta Claus; Mother Goose; the Black Giant
3My Little Ponytext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
4Old Granny Hipple Hoppletext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellyOld Granny Hipple Hopple; Santa Claus; Easter Bunny
5Goosey Gander's Giftcomic story7script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellyGoosey Gander; Pansy Pig; Mr. Fox
6A Crooked Partycomic story4script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellySanta Claus
7Tommy Tucker's Songtext story2script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
8A Bear For Bedtext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
9The Three Blind Mice and a Christmas Deedcomic story8script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellyThe Three Blind Mice [Miney; Meeney; Moe]; Mother Hubbard; Dan (her dog); Morris
10Rub-a-Dub-Dubtext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
11My Favorite Treetext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
12Little Jack Horner's Christmas Piecomic story6script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellyLittle Jack Horner; The Pieman; Simple Simon; Humpty Dumpty; Jack; Jill
13What's the Day?text story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
14Contrary Mary and the Angelcomic story5script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellyContrary Mary
15Christmas Evetext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly
16The Merry Pigstext story1script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt Kelly

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Series context

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