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Four Color #103 (Apr. 1946):
“Easter with Mother Goose”
by Walt Kelly

Four Color #103

Title: “Easter with Mother Goose”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 1946

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


19 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.
The Easter Bunny The Easter Bunny lead character
CBR Scale: D Christian anthropomorphic animal
 rabbit ABC DreamWorks 35
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
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 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
Wee Willie Winkie Wee Willie Winkie lead character
   [from nursery rhyme; has become a personification of sleep] David Robertson 14
Little Tommy Tucker Little Tommy Tucker non-feature lead character
   [from nursery rhyme; sings for his supper] Mary Cooper 9
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
Three Blind Mice Three Blind Mice supporting character group
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animals
 mouse Thomas Adams 48
The Cat and the Fiddle The Cat and the Fiddle supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
 cat John Newbery 2
Three Little Kittens Three Little Kittens supporting character group
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
 cat
[lost their mittens]		 Leonard C. Bowles 2
Jack Sprat Jack Sprat supporting character
   [could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean] Felix Kyngston 14
The Giant villain
CBR Scale: D giant
 [main giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk" tale] Benjamin Tabart 53
Goosey Goosey Gander Goosey Goosey Gander non-feature lead character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
 goose R. Christopher 4

This publication is also known as: Easter with Mother Goose #103.

This comic features the following comic book interpretations of traditional nursery rhymes and Easter-themed comic stories based on traditional nursery rhyme characters:
1. Hot Cross Buns
2. Easter With Mother Goose
3. Buddy Bunny's Problem
4. Ten Little Easter Eggs
5. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
6. The Three Blind Mice and their Easter Gift
7. Hidden are bunnies numbering ten
8. Inside an Easter Egg
9. Through the Town
10. Wee Willie Helps the Easter Bunny
11. Fair Easter Day
12. Humpty Dumpty and the Giant
13. I Caught a Hare Alive
14. Hickety, pickety, my black hen

The process of listing characters who appeared in this source is not yet complete. This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Four Color #103 (Apr. 1946) created 27 May 2013. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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