| Issue | #518 |
| Published | September 1955 |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor) |
| Characters | Golden Goose; Innkeeper's Three Daughters |
| Synopsis | Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the innkeeper's three daughters stuck to the Golden Goose. |
| Pencils | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
| Inks | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
| Colors | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover promo positioned on the left side of the page for the next issue of Classics Illustrated Junior, "Paul Bunyan". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover. |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
| Inks | Alex A. Blum |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page. |
| Genre | Children |
| Script | ? (puzzle instructions) |
| Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
| Inks | Alex A. Blum |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Characters | Simpleton; Simpleton's Mother; Simpleton's Two Brothers; Princess; King; Golden Goose; Little Man; Innkeeper; Innkeeper's Three Daughters; Townspeople |
| Synopsis | After helping a little man to food and drink, Simpleton is rewarded with a Golden Goose. Those who attempt to touch Simpleton's goose become stuck to the bird (or each other) and Simpleton thus becomes the leader of a comical procession through the countryside. Eventually, the goose helps Simpleton win the love of a princess, but they are allowed to marry only after Simpleton accomplishes three seemingly impossible tasks. |
| Genre | Children |
| Script | ? (adapter); Brothers Grimm (original authors) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Characters | Lion; Mouse |
| Synopsis | After a lion spares his life, a mouse frees the lion from a hunter's net. The lion notes that an act of kindness is never wasted. |
| Genre | Children |
| Script | ? (adapter); Aesop (original author) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Nursery rhyme telling of people coming to town in rags and velvet gowns. |
| Genre | Children |
| Script | ? (traditional author) |
| Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
| Inks | Alex A. Blum |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Nursery rhyme telling of Humpty Dumpty's fall. |
| Genre | Children |
| Script | ? (traditional author) |
| Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
| Inks | Alex A. Blum |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about rain falling on land and at sea. |
| Genre | Children |
| Script | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
| Inks | Alex A. Blum |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about a youngster playing on the seashore. |
| Genre | Children |
| Script | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
| Inks | Alex A. Blum |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Full-page, inside back cover promo offering Classics Illustrated and Classics Illustrated Junior subscriptions. Spot illustrations depict series front covers. |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Characters | Simpleton; Golden Goose |
| Synopsis | Full-page, back cover illustration depicts Simpleton leading the Golden Goose by a ribbon. |
| Genre | Children |
| Pencils | Alex A. Blum |
| Inks | Alex A. Blum |