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Issue Details

Issue	#504
Published	January 1954
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "The Pied Piper"

Characters	Pied Piper; Children
Synopsis	Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Pied Piper playing his pipe for a group of children.
Genre	Children
Pencils	Dik Browne ? (painting)
Inks	Dik Browne ? (painting)
Colors	Dik Browne ? (painting)
Letters	Typeset

Half page Coming Next Month promo (ad from the publisher) "Forthcoming Title"

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, "The Sleeping Beauty". Spot illustration depicts the next issue's front cover.
Script	? (ad copy)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

Half page What Is This? activity "Dot-to-Dot Puzzle"

Synopsis	Half-page, vertically-oriented, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of the page.
Genre	Children
Script	? (puzzle directions)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

30 page story "The Pied Piper"

Synopsis	The Pied Piper rids the town of Hamelin of rats, but is cheated of his fee by the mayor and his councilmen. In revenge, he leads the children of Hamelin to a mountain that closes around them.
Genre	Children
Script	? (adapter); Robert Browning (original author)
Pencils	Dik Browne (signed)
Inks	Dik Browne ?
Letters	Typeset

1 page text article "Sing a Song of Sixpence"

Characters	King; Queen; Maid; Blackbirds
Synopsis	Nursery rhyme about a pie filled with twenty-four singing blackbirds.
Genre	Children
Script	? (traditional author)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

1 page text article "We can tell the African elephant..."

Synopsis	Illustrated article about elephants.
Genre	Fact
Pencils	William A. Walsh
Inks	William A. Walsh
Letters	Typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Subscription Order"

Synopsis	Full-page, inside back cover promo offering a Classics Illustrated Junior subscription. Spot illustration depicts the front cover of "The Pied Piper".
Script	? (ad copy)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

1 page illustration "The Pied Piper Pinup"

Synopsis	Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the Pied Piper and a dancing rat.
Genre	Children
Pencils	Dik Browne ?
Inks	Dik Browne ?
Colors	Dik Browne ?