Four Color #41
Title: “Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Apr. 1944
Publisher:
32 characters in this story:
Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.) |
Religious Affiliation |
Team(s) [Notes] |
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[egg from nursery rhyme; sat on a wall, had a great fall...] | Macmillan | 40 | ||||||
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[w/Jill went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] | John Newbery | 23 | |||||||
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[w/Jack went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] | John Newbery | 23 | |||||||
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lion | George M. Hill Company | 197 | ||||||
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[nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep] | Mary Cooper | 30 | |||||||
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[wife of "Peter Pumpkin Eater"] | Munroe and Francis | 2 | |||||||
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[nursery rhyme character] | Munroe and Francis | 11 | |||||||
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[1st app: Songs for the Nursery (1805)] | Benjamin Tabart | 41 | |||||||
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[king] | Bernard Lintott | 30 | |||||||
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[from nursery rhyme; has become a personification of sleep] | David Robertson | 14 | |||||||
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[couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again] | Bygone Productions | 2 | |||||||
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[dog owner; very poor; her cupboard was bare] | J. Harris | 17 | |||||||
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[had so many children...] | R. Christopher | 26 | |||||||
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cat | John Newbery | 2 | ||||||
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dog [laughed to see such a sight] |
John Newbery | 1 | ||||||
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[ran away with the Spoon] | John Newbery | 1 | ||||||
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[ran away with the Dish] | John Newbery | 1 | ||||||
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spider [frightened Miss Muffet away] |
Benjamin Tabart | 3 | ||||||
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cat [lost their mittens] |
Leonard C. Bowles | 2 | ||||||
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[played for Old King Cole] | Bernard Lintott | 2 | |||||||
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[ate a Christmas pie] | ![]() |
28 | |||||||
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blackbird [baked in a pie; sang for king when pie was opened] |
unknown | 3 | ||||||
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[child] | John Newbery | 2 | |||||||
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sheep | unknown | 2 | ||||||
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horse | ![]() |
4 | ||||||
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[pie with 24 live blackbirds was set before the king] | unknown | 1 | |||||||
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mouse [ran up a clock] |
Mary Cooper | 2 | ||||||
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[1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1794)] | R. Christopher | 6 | |||||||
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[went to bed with his trousers on] | ![]() |
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[narrates rhyme "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"] | ![]() |
2 | |||||||
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[narrates rhyme "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"] | ![]() |
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[imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes] | ![]() |
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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