Four Color #201
Title: “Christmas with Mother Goose”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Nov. 1948
Publisher:
21 characters in this story:
Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.) |
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[egg from nursery rhyme; sat on a wall, had a great fall...] | Macmillan | 40 | ||||||
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[often are messengers of God] | ![]() ![]() |
144 | ||||||
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[from nursery rhyme; sings for his supper] | Mary Cooper | 9 | |||||||
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[in nursery rhyme, met Simple Simon, going to the fair] | Celebrity Productions | 5 | |||||||
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[from nursery rhyme; met a pieman, going to fair] | ![]() |
20 | |||||||
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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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[1st app: Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)] | T. Richards | 8 | |||||||
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cat | John Newbery | 2 | ||||||
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[ate a Christmas pie] | ![]() |
28 | |||||||
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[could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean] | Felix Kyngston | 14 | |||||||
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[could eat no lean; her husband could eat no fat] | Felix Kyngston | 3 | |||||||
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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] | ![]() |
2 | |||||||
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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"] | ![]() |
2 | |||||||
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goose | R. Christopher | 4 | ||||||
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[Goosey Gander found sack, ginger in my lady's chamber] | R. Christopher | 2 | |||||||
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[imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes] | ![]() |
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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