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Four Color #41 (Apr. 1944):
“Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics”
by Arthur E. Jameson

Four Color #41

Title: “Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 1944

Publisher: Dell
Art by: Arthur E. Jameson


32 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.
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
Jack Jack supporting character
  [w/Jill went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] John Newbery 23
Jill Jill supporting character
  [w/Jack went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] John Newbery 23
The Cowardly Lion The Cowardly Lion supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
lion George M. Hill Company 197
Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue lead character
  [nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep] Mary Cooper 30
Shirley Pumpkin Eater Shirley Pumpkin Eater (Shirley) supporting character
  [wife of "Peter Pumpkin Eater"] Munroe and Francis 2
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (Peter) lead character
  [nursery rhyme character] Munroe and Francis 11
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
Wee Willie Winkie Wee Willie Winkie lead character
  [from nursery rhyme; has become a personification of sleep] David Robertson 14
all the king's men all the king's men supporting character group
  [couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again] Bygone Productions 2
Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Hubbard (Mrs. Hubbard) lead character
  [dog owner; very poor; her cupboard was bare] J. Harris 17
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe lead character
  [had so many children...] R. Christopher 26
The Cat and the Fiddle The Cat and the Fiddle supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cat John Newbery 2
The Little Dog The Little Dog supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
dog
[laughed to see such a sight]
John Newbery 1
The Dish The Dish supporting character
CBR Scale: D sentient inanimate
[ran away with the Spoon] John Newbery 1
The Spoon The Spoon supporting character
CBR Scale: D sentient inanimate
[ran away with the Dish] John Newbery 1
The Spider The Spider villain
CBR Scale: D N.A.
spider
[frightened Miss Muffet away]
Benjamin Tabart 3
Three Little Kittens Three Little Kittens supporting character group
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
cat
[lost their mittens]
Leonard C. Bowles 2
The Fiddlers Three The Fiddlers Three supporting character group
  [played for Old King Cole] Bernard Lintott 2
Little Jack Horner Little Jack Horner lead character
  [ate a Christmas pie] MGM 28
Four and Twenty Blackbirds Four and Twenty Blackbirds supporting character group
CBR Scale: D N.A.
blackbird
[baked in a pie; sang for king when pie was opened]
unknown 3
Rock-a-bye Baby Rock-a-bye Baby non-feature lead character
  [child] John Newbery 2
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Baa, Baa, Black Sheep supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
sheep unknown 2
all the king's horses all the king's horses supporting character group
CBR Scale: D N.A.
horse Zazoo Films 4
the king the king supporting character
  [pie with 24 live blackbirds was set before the king] unknown 1
the mouse the mouse supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
mouse
[ran up a clock]
Mary Cooper 2
children who lived in a shoe children who lived in a shoe supporting character group
  [1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1794)] R. Christopher 6
John John
(details) 
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
Mother Goose Mother Goose
(mentioned & on cover)
supporting character
  [imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes] Dell 49

This publication is also known as: Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics #1.

This issue is divided into about 31 separate "stories." These are mostly 1-page and 2-page comic book-style renderings of traditional Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

Most "stories" (nursery rhymes) have no credited author (aside from "traditional"). William Miller is credited for writing "Wee Willie Winkie." Mrs. L. M. Child is credited as the author of the poem "Who Stole the Bird's Nest?"

The nursery rhymes portrayed in this issue are:
1. Rock-a-Bye Baby
2. There Was an Old Woman
3. Ding Dong Bell
4. Ride, Baby, Ride
5. Curly Locks, Curly Locks
6. Two Little Kittens
7. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
8. Polly Flinders
9. Old Mother Hubbard
10. A Little Pig Found a Fifty Dollar Note
11. Wee Willie Winkie
12. Little Miss Muffet
13. Who Stole the Bird's Nest?
14. The Old Woman
15. Old King Cole
16. A Little Cockerel
17. Three Little Kittens
18. Little Boy Blue
19. The Cat and the Fiddle
20. The Little Sparrow
21. The North Wind
22. Sing a Song of Sixpence
23. A Dillar, A Dollar
24. Pussy Cat
25. Humpty Dumpty
26. Jack and Jill
27. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
28. Hickory, Dickory, Dock
29. Bring Out the Carriage
30. Deedle, Deedle Dumpling
31. To Bed, To Bed
32. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
33. Little Jack Horner