Issue: #104
Published: [May-June] 1946, 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: Indicia title is "FAIRY TALE PARADE, No. 104." Code number is F.T.P.-104-464. Copyright 1946 by Oskar Lebeck.
Catalog of Copyright Entries 1946 Pamphlets states, "by O. Lebeck and Walt Kelly."
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Fairy Tale Parade |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
A traveling tinkerer tells a lad tall tales. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Comic Story (14 pages) |
Tiny Esmeralda |
| Synopsis: |
Esmeralda, a tiny princess in the forest, sees a handsome man on horseback and wishes she was his size. The mouse prince goes to the witch's house to see if she can help. When he gets there he finds a mouse princess held captive. The mouse prince frees the mouse princess and brings back a flask of a potion that makes Esmeralda human size. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Tiny Esmeralda The Mouse Prince The Mouse Princess The Witch |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
The Kingdoms of the Thousand Mountains |
| Synopsis: |
In a mountainous kingdom, people do not venture out after dark for fear of a witch. At the same time, the poor receive gifts that they credit to a "good fairy." One day two children chase a goat up the mountain. By the time they rescue the goat it is dark and they are afraid the witch will find them. The witch does find them, but takes them to her castle and feeds them before taking them to their home. No one believes the children when they tell their story. Years later the kingdom is invaded by fierce warriors and the witch saves the people by turning the warriors to stone. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
The Wee Man |
| Synopsis: |
An evil sorcerer shrinks a man, Crumpet, to mouse-size. A prince rescues the little man from a hawk, but the sorcerer puts a curse on the prince's son, causing him to shrink to Crumpet's size. The two tiny folk go to the Sorcerer's castle where they learn the secret of breaking the spell. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Crumpet Prince Of Taradee |
| Comic Story (13 pages) |
Melisandra |
| Synopsis: |
A cruel queen takes her stepdaughter to the enchanted forest and abandons her there. The girl falls in a ravine and hits her head. An old dwarf finds her and takes her to his home. On Melisandra's 18th birthday, the Queen goes to a witch to make sure that the girl is dead, but a spell shows her alive and well. The witch turns the Queen into a huge snake, which goes into the forest in search of Melisandra. At the same time a young knight goes to the forest and saves the girl from the serpent. When the snake dies, Melisandra's memory returns and she takes her rightful place as queen. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Princess Melisandra Omlo The Dwarf |
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