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Four Color #59 (Dec. 1944):
“Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics”
by Walt Kelly

Four Color #59

Title: “Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1944

Publisher: Dell
Written by: Walt Kelly
Art by: Walt Kelly


27 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Mother Goose Mother Goose supporting character
  [imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes] Dell 49
Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty lead character
CBR Scale: I sentient inanimate
[egg from nursery rhyme; sat on a wall, had a great fall...] Macmillan 40
Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue lead character
  [nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep] Mary Cooper 30
Little Bo Peep Little Bo Peep (Bo Peep) lead character
  [lost her sheep] Walt Disney Pictures 77
Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet (Patience Muffet) lead character based on a real person
  [1st app: Songs for the Nursery (1805)] Benjamin Tabart 41
Old King Cole Old King Cole (King Cole) supporting character lead character based on a real person
  [king] Bernard Lintott 30
Simple Simon Simple Simon (Simon) lead character
  [from nursery rhyme; met a pieman, going to fair] MGM 20
Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Hubbard (Mrs. Hubbard) lead character
  [dog owner; very poor; her cupboard was bare] J. Harris 17
The Crooked Man The Crooked Man (Barnaby Crookedman) supporting character
  [1st app: Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)] T. Richards 8
The Crooked Man's Dog supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
dog Walt Disney Pictures 1
The Spider The Spider villain
CBR Scale: D N.A.
spider
[frightened Miss Muffet away]
Benjamin Tabart 3
The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket non-feature lead character
CBR Scale: U witch
[1st app: Mother Goose's Melody (1760)] John Newbery 2
My Little Dog supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
dog Sep. Winner & Co. 3
My Fair Lady My Fair Lady supporting character
  [1st app: Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Voll. II (1744)] Mary Cooper 2
The Farmer in the Dell The Farmer in the Dell non-feature lead character
  [farmer] Two Oceans Entertainment Group 2
Sylvester J. Goose supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
goose
[Mother Goose's talking goose companion]
Walt Disney Pictures 2
toad toad supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
toad
[confused centipede, asking it which leg comes after which]
Cassell & Company 2
centipede centipede non-feature lead character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
centipede
[confused when asked "which leg comes after which?"]
Cassell & Company 2
John John supporting character
  [went to bed with his trousers on] Dell 2
John's father John's father supporting character
  [narrates rhyme "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"] Dell 2
John's mother John's mother supporting character
  [narrates rhyme "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"] Dell 2
The Cat and the Fiddle The Cat and the Fiddle
(only on cover)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cat John Newbery 2
The Cow The Cow
(only on cover)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cattle
[jumped over the moon]
John Newbery 1
The Little Dog The Little Dog
(only on cover)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
dog
[laughed to see such a sight]
John Newbery 1
The Moon The Moon
(only on cover)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D sentient inanimate
[the moon, anthropomorphized] John Newbery 1
Jack Be Nimble Jack Be Nimble (Jack)
(only on cover)
non-feature lead character
  [1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1815)] R. Christopher 3
the mouse the mouse
(only on cover)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
mouse
[ran up a clock]
Mary Cooper 2

This publication is also known as: Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics #59 or Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics #2. Each issue of Four Color featured a different cover logo. Based on the cover, this issue may be identified as Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics #59.

This issue was apparently written (or adapted) and illustrated entirely by Walt Kelly. The issue is divided up into multiple short pieces - comic stories which are mostly one, two or three pages in length. These mostly illustrate different traditional nursery rhymes. There are about 20 different sections in total, all of which we are indexing in this single entry.