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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published April 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "MOTHER GOOSE and NURSERY RHYME COMICS, No. 41." Code number is NROS- 444. (No issue number in code number.) Copyright 1944 by Oscar Lebeck.

Cover Details - "Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics"

Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

1 page story "Rock-a-Bye Baby"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Rock-a-Bye Baby."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Inside front cover; black, blue, and white. Text and illustrations.

1 page story "There Was an Old Woman"

Characters Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes text and illustrations.

2 page story "Ding Dong Bell"

Characters Little Tommy Green; Little Tommy Stout
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Ding, Dong, Bell."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?

1 page story "Ride, Baby, Ride"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Ride, Baby, Ride."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Curly Locks, Curly Locks"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Curly Locks, Curly Locks."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

2 page story "Two Little Kittens"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Two Little Kittens."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Polly Flinders"

Characters Polly Flinders
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Polly Flinders."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

3 page story "Old Mother Hubbard"

Characters Old Mother Hubbard
Synopsis Extended version of the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations. Stanzas 1, 4, 10, 14, and 15 of the 1805 version are illustrated.

1 page story "A Little Pig Found a Fifty Dollar Note"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "A Little Pig Found a Fifty Dollar Note."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Wee Willie Winkie"

Characters Wee Willie Winkie
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Wee Willie Winkie."
Script William Miller (original rhyme)
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations. Wording is slightly modified from 1841 original.

1 page story "Little Miss Muffet"

Characters Little Miss Muffet
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

5 page story "Who Stole the Bird's Nest?"

Synopsis Abridged version of the poem "Who Stole the Bird's Nest?"
Script Mrs. L. M. Child
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.
Reprinted from "The Living Age" (Littell, Son and Co.,) Volume 10 (1846) [poem]

1 page story "The Old Woman"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "The Old Woman."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

2 page story "Old King Cole"

Characters Old King Cole
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Old King Cole."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

2 page story "A Little Cockerel"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "A Little Cockerel."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

4 page story "Three Little Kittens"

Characters Three Little Kittens
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "The Three Little Kittens."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Little Boy Blue"

Characters Little Boy Blue
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "The Cat and the Fiddle"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "The Cat and the Fiddle."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations. Nursery rhyme also goes by the title "Hey, Diddle, Diddle."

1 page story "The Little Sparrow"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Boy and the Sparrow."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "The North Wind"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "The North Wind."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

2 page story "Sing a Song of Sixpence"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "A Dillar, A Dollar"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "A Dillar, A Dollar."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Pussy Cat"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Humpty Dumpty"

Characters Humpty Dumpty
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Jack and Jill"

Characters Jack; Jill
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations. Three stanzas of the rhyme are illustrated.

5 page story "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"

Synopsis Nine stanzas of the song "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush."
Script [Traditional song]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Hickory, Dickory, Dock."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Bring Out the Carriage"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Bring Out the Carriage."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Deedle, Deedle Dumpling"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Deedle, Deedle Dumpling."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations. Also goes by the title "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling."

1 page story "To Bed, To Bed"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "To Bed, To Bed."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater"

Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Inside back cover; Black, blue, and white. Text and illustrations.

1 page story "Little Jack Horner"

Characters Little Jack Horner
Synopsis The nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner."
Script [Traditional]
Pencils Arthur E. Jameson ?
Inks Arthur E. Jameson ?
Notes Back cover. Text and illustrations.