Issue Details

Issue	#68
Published	1945
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "MOTHER GOOSE AND NURSERY RHYME COMICS, No. 68." No code number. Copyright 1945 by Oskar Lebeck.

Cover Details - "The Cat and the Fiddle"

Characters	The Cat and the Fiddle; The Dish and the Spoon
Synopsis	Illustrating the nursery rhyme "Hi Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle."
Genre	fantasy
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Cover has "Illustrated by Walt Kelly" in small typeset letters at bottom.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Hello"

Synopsis	Introduction to the comic.
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.

19 page story "The Mother Goose Birthday Party"

Characters	Mother Goose; Three Little Pigs; Three Blind Mice; Tom Thumb; Ugly Duckling; Goldilocks; The Owl and the Pussycat; Old King Cole; SImple Simon; the Pieman; Yankee Doodle; Little Miss Muffet; Mistress Mary; Little Jack Horner; Georgie Porgie; Humpty Dumpty; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Big Bad Wolf; Jack Spratt; Little Tommy Tucker; The Spider and the Fly; Old Mother Hubbard; Little Boy Blue; the Gingerbread Boy; the Fairy Queen
Synopsis	Mother Goose has a birthday party and invites a large number of nursery rhyme characters.
Genre	fantasy
Script	Charles H. Herman (credited)
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations.

7 page story "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"

Synopsis	A man gets a dog, which bites him. But it's the dog that dies, not the man.
Script	Oliver Goldsmith [as O. Goldsmith] (credited)
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	The illustrations intentionally contradict the written lines, which are from an 18th century poem.

1 page story "Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid!"

Synopsis	The nursery rhyme "Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid."
Script	[Traditional]
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations.

1 page filler "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

Characters	Mary
Synopsis	The "Mary Had a Little Lamb" nursery rhyme.
Script	Sarah Hale
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the first three lines included. First four lines of the original eight line poem from 1830 included.

1 page filler "Three Blind Mice"

Characters	Three Blind Mice
Synopsis	The nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice."
Script	[Traditional]
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the entire song is included.

5 page story "The House That Jack Built"

Synopsis	The nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built."
Script	[Traditional]
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations.

5 page story "Such a-do About a Shoe"

Characters	Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Synopsis	The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe looks for more suitable living quarters.
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations.

5 page story "Three Little Kittens"

Characters	Three Little Kittens
Synopsis	The nursery rhyme "Three Little Kittens," with an additional page of text at the end.
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations.

4 page story "Bo-Peep's Dream"

Characters	Little Bo-Peep
Synopsis	Little Bo-Peep has a dream in which she has a magic wand.
Script	Charles H. Herman (credited)
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Text and illustrations.

1 page story "The End of a Tail"

Synopsis	A little mouse gets scrubbed from his head to the tip of his tail.
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations.

1 page illustration "Mother Goose Characters"

Characters	Mother Goose
Synopsis	A montage of many different characters from Mother Goose rhymes.
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Back cover.