Tiny Tots Comics #1 – Key Highlights
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Publisher: Dell Publishing
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Publication Date: 1943
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Issue Number: #1
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Cover Artist: Walt Kelly (front and back covers)
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Interior Artists: Walt Kelly and unidentified artists
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Writers: Uncredited
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Genre: Funny Animal; Fairy-Tale Adaptations
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Pages: 68 according to the issue details (introductory description lists 64)
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Original Cover Price: $0.10
🔥 Key Significance
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Features front and back cover artwork by Walt Kelly.
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Includes several classic fairy tales adapted into funny-animal comic stories.
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Walt Kelly is credited with the Table of Contents artwork, the Three Blind Mice story, and the closing text feature, “The End.”
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The issue includes a copyright notice for 1943 by Oskar Lebeck.
📖 Story Highlights
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The Three Bears – 15 pages. Funny-animal adaptation; creators not identified.
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The Three Little Pigs – 17 pages. Funny-animal adaptation; artwork tentatively attributed to Walt Kelly.
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Three Blind Mice – 4 pages. Written by an uncredited writer and illustrated by Walt Kelly.
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Three Little Kittens – 16 pages. Funny-animal adaptation; creators not identified.
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The Three Billy Goats and the Goblin – 12 pages. Funny-animal adaptation; artwork tentatively attributed to Walt Kelly.
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“The End” – 1-page text story with illustrations by Walt Kelly.
📌 Additional Details
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Table of Contents: 1-page illustrated introduction featuring numerous small figures surrounding the contents listing, with artwork by Walt Kelly.
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Back Cover: 1-page funny-animal illustration by Walt Kelly.
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Creative Credits: Individual writers and most story artists are unidentified. Walt Kelly's tentative attributions for The Three Little Pigs and The Three Billy Goats and the Goblin are retained as uncertain.
This 1943 Dell publication brings together familiar fairy tales in a funny-animal comic format, with Walt Kelly's artwork providing a notable visual thread throughout the book.
Note: The supplied details list the page count as both 64 and 68; the issue-details table specifies 68 pages.
