Issue Details

Issue	#511
Published	August 1954
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Puss in Boots"

Characters	Puss in Boots; Princess; Miller's Son
Synopsis	Full-page, front cover illustration depicts Puss in Boots waving farewwell to the princess and the miller's son.
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 in the Classics Illustrated Junior series, "Rumpelstiltskin". Spot illustration depicts the next's issue's 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

28 page story "Puss in Boots"

Characters	Puss in Boots; King; Princess; Miller's Son; Wicked Magician
Synopsis	A cat helps a poor miller's son attain wealth and the hand of a princess in marriage after defeating a wicked magician.
Genre	Children
Script	? (adapter); Charles Perrault (original author)
Letters	Typeset

2 page Aesop's Fables story "The Fox and the Stork"

Characters	Fox; Stork
Synopsis	A fox thinks it a great joke to serve a stork dinner in a flat dish but the stork turns the tables by serving the fox dinner in a tall, narrow vase. "If you can't take a joke, don't make one," the stork remarks.
Genre	Children
Script	? (adapter); Aesop (original author)
Letters	Typeset

Half page text article "There Was a Crooked Man"

Characters	Crooked Man
Synopsis	Nursery rhyme about a crooked man finding a crooked sixpence.
Genre	Children
Script	? (traditional author)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A. Blum
Letters	Typeset

Half page text article "Peter Piper"

Characters	Peter Piper
Synopsis	Nursery rhyme about Peter Piper picking peppers.
Genre	Children
Script	? (traditional author)
Pencils	Alex A. Blum
Inks	Alex A, Blum
Letters	Typeset

1 page text article "From eastern Australia comes the strangest animal..."

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

1 page illustration "Puss in Boots Pinup"

Characters	Puss in Boots; Wicked Magician
Synopsis	Full-page, back cover illustration depicts the wicked magician raging at Puss in Boots.
Genre	Children