Issue: #172
Published: November 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Cover titles is "Christmas with Mother Goose by Walt Kelly". Indicia title is "CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE, No. 172". Code number is C.M.G. #172-4711. Copyright 1947 by Oskar Lebeck. Initial information for this index from e-mail on the error list from Greg Theakston (June 2006).
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| Text Story (1 page) |
Remembering |
| Synopsis: |
Remembering to do chores becomes easier right before Christmas. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
Mother Goose Helps Santa |
| Synopsis: |
With Christmas coming up, the Black Giant kidnaps Santa's helpers and is holding them for ransom. Mother Goose comes by and comes up with a plan where she will dress up as Santa to fool the Black Giant. She takes the Giant on a tour of the Candy Mine and tricks him into falling into the taffy springs. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Santa Claus Mother Goose The Black Giant |
| Text Story (1 page) |
My Little Pony |
| Synopsis: |
A father's attempt to stand on a rocking horse to trim the Christmas tree ends badly. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
A Crooked Party |
| Synopsis: |
A Christmas-themed take-off on the nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man." |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Santa Claus |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Tommy Tucker's Song |
| Synopsis: |
A poem called "If Every Day was Christmas". |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Text Story (1 page) |
A Bear For Bed |
| Synopsis: |
A little girl takes a stuffed bear to bed with her. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Rub-a-Dub-Dub |
| Synopsis: |
A Christmas-themed version of the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-Dub-Dub". |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Text Story (1 page) |
My Favorite Tree |
| Synopsis: |
A little girl's favorite tree is a Christmas tree. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Little Jack Horner's Christmas Pie |
| Synopsis: |
Little Jack Horner puts in an order for a pie at the Pieman's shop, where he meets Simple Simon. The two boys talk to Humpty Dumpty, but the egg falls off a window sill and cracks his head. Jack and Simon run off to get Jack and Jill to do repair work on Humpty, but find they are out of brown paper and vinegar--the materials they used to heal Jack when he fell down the hill. The Pieman comes to the rescue with a sticky pie that holds Humpty's head together. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Little Jack Horner The Pieman Simple Simon Humpty Dumpty Jack Jill |
| Text Story (1 page) |
What's the Day? |
| Synopsis: |
A boy and girl know it's Christmas, but their puppy doesn't. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Contrary Mary and the Angel |
| Synopsis: |
Mary is sent to her room for being contrary. There an angel takes her to "Contraria", a nightmarish land where every object can talk and always contradicts what Mary says. Mary learns her lesson and the angel brings her back to her room. |
| Genre: |
Children Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Contrary Mary |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Christmas Eve |
| Synopsis: |
A young boy tries to stay awake until Santa comes. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Merry Pigs |
| Synopsis: |
A Christmas-themed version of the nursery rhyme "This Little Pig Went to Market." |
| Genre: |
Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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