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Four Color #201 (Nov. 1948):
“Christmas with Mother Goose”
by Walt Kelly

Four Color #201

Title: “Christmas with Mother Goose”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov. 1948

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


21 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.
Santa Claus Santa Claus hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Christian
  DC Marvel 1,199
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
angels angels supporting character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D angels
[often are messengers of God] Marvel DC 144
Little Tommy Tucker Little Tommy Tucker non-feature lead character
  [from nursery rhyme; sings for his supper] Mary Cooper 9
the pieman the pieman supporting character
  [in nursery rhyme, met Simple Simon, going to the fair] Celebrity Productions 5
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 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 Crooked Man The Crooked Man (Barnaby Crookedman) supporting character
  [1st app: Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)] T. Richards 8
The Cat and the Fiddle The Cat and the Fiddle supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cat John Newbery 2
Little Jack Horner Little Jack Horner lead character
  [ate a Christmas pie] MGM 28
Jack Sprat Jack Sprat supporting character
  [could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean] Felix Kyngston 14
Jull Sprat Jull Sprat supporting character
  [could eat no lean; her husband could eat no fat] Felix Kyngston 3
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 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
Goosey Goosey Gander Goosey Goosey Gander non-feature lead character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
goose R. Christopher 4
my lady my lady supporting character
  [Goosey Gander found sack, ginger in my lady's chamber] R. Christopher 2
Mother Goose Mother Goose
(mentioned)
supporting character
  [imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes] Dell 49

This publication is also known as: Christmas With Mother Goose #201. This issue may also be known as Christmas With Mother Goose #201, which is how the title logo appears on the cover.

This issue is divided into the following distinct "stories", most are renditions of or interpretations of traditional nursery rhymes. Most of these are 1-page or 2-page pieces. Most of these are not straight-up traditional renditions of the nursery rhymes, but are Christmas-themed in some way:
1. Christmas Day in the Morning
2. Christmas in the Shoe
3. Polly Flinders
4. A Christmas Alphabet
5. Deck the Halls
6. Hickory and Dickory Help Santa Claus
7. Little Jack Horner
8. The Year
9. A Visit to the Queen
10. Clap Handies
11. Tommy Tucker's Carol
12. Three Jovial Welshmen
13. Christmas is Coming
14. Rooster and Hen
15. Simple Simon
16. Handy Pandy
17. The Spratts
18. Goosey, Goosey Gander
19. Pippin Hill
20. The Christmas Candle
21. Little Betty Blue
22. The Tale of Chip-Chop and his Christmas Good Deed
23. Banbury Cross
24. Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling

A few of these are not simply comic-illustrated nursery rhymes but are more like traditional comic book stories using nursery rhyme characters. The stories in this category include:
- Christmas in the Shoe
- Hickory and Dickory Help Santa Claus
- The Tale of Chip-Chop and his Christmas Good Deed