Classics Illustrated Junior #502 Values
Publisher: Gilberton, 1953
About Classics Illustrated Junior #502
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Ugly Duckling; Mother Duck
Pencils: Dik Browne ? (painting)
Inks: Dik Browne ? (painting)
Colors: Dik Browne ? (painting)
Letters: typeset
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Ugly Duckling; Mother Duck; Hen; Cat; Old Woman; Barnyard Fowl; Farmer; Two Children; Wild Ducks; Swans
Synopsis: The Ugly Duckling is unwanted in the barnyard for no other reason than that of his homeliness. He is teased, harassed, and abused, and leaves home to make his way in the world. He suffers great hardships but the day comes when he matures into a swan, the most beautiful bird of all.
Pages: 30.000
Script: Toni Blum [as Audrey Bossert] (adapter, see notes); Hans Christian Andersen (original author)
Pencils: Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)
Inks: Bill Walsh [as William A. Walsh] (see notes)
Letters: typeset
Notes: Writer/adapter and art credits from an Associated Press report from April 2, 1956, in which Ugly Duckling won a Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Mass Media Award for Best Comic Book for Children Under 8. Blum and Walsh were not credited in the issue, but were awarded for their work as Audrey Bossert of Pleasantville, New York and William A. Walsh of Colonia, New Jersey.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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