Four Color #59 (Dec. 1944):
“Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics”
by Walt Kelly

Four Color #59

Title: “Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1944

Publisher:
Written by: Walt Kelly
Art by: Walt Kelly

27 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Mother Goose		[imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes]		49
Humpty Dumpty	sentient inanimate	[egg from nursery rhyme; sat on a wall, had a great fall...]	Macmillan	40
Little Boy Blue		[nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep]	Mary Cooper	30
Little Bo Peep (Bo Peep)		[lost her sheep]		77
Little Miss Muffet (Patience Muffet)		[1st app: Songs for the Nursery (1805)]	Benjamin Tabart	41
Old King Cole (King Cole)		[king]	Bernard Lintott	30
Simple Simon (Simon)		[from nursery rhyme; met a pieman, going to fair]		20
Old Mother Hubbard (Mrs. Hubbard)		[dog owner; very poor; her cupboard was bare]	J. Harris	17
The Crooked Man (Barnaby Crookedman)		[1st app: Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)]	T. Richards	8
The Crooked Man's Dog	anthropomorphic animal	dog		1
The Spider	N.A.	spider [frightened Miss Muffet away]	Benjamin Tabart	3
The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket	witch	[1st app: Mother Goose's Melody (1760)]	John Newbery	2
My Little Dog	N.A.	dog	Sep. Winner & Co.	3
My Fair Lady		[1st app: Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Voll. II (1744)]	Mary Cooper	2
The Farmer in the Dell		[farmer]	Two Oceans Entertainment Group	2
Sylvester J. Goose	anthropomorphic animal	goose [Mother Goose's talking goose companion]		2
toad	anthropomorphic animal	toad [confused centipede, asking it which leg comes after which]	Cassell & Company	2
centipede	anthropomorphic animal	centipede [confused when asked "which leg comes after which?"]	Cassell & Company	2
John		[went to bed with his trousers on]		2
John's father		[narrates rhyme "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"]		2
John's mother		[narrates rhyme "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John"]		2
The Cat and the Fiddle (only on cover)	N.A.	cat	John Newbery	2
The Cow (only on cover)	N.A.	cattle [jumped over the moon]	John Newbery	1
The Little Dog (only on cover)	anthropomorphic animal	dog [laughed to see such a sight]	John Newbery	1
The Moon (only on cover)	sentient inanimate	[the moon, anthropomorphized]	John Newbery	1
Jack Be Nimble (Jack) (only on cover)		[1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1815)]	R. Christopher	3
the mouse (only on cover)	N.A.	mouse [ran up a clock]	Mary Cooper	2

This publication is also known as: Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics #59 or Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics #2. Each issue of Four Color featured a different cover logo. Based on the cover, this issue may be identified as Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics #59.

This issue was apparently written (or adapted) and illustrated entirely by Walt Kelly. The issue is divided up into multiple short pieces - comic stories which are mostly one, two or three pages in length. These mostly illustrate different traditional nursery rhymes. There are about 20 different sections in total, all of which we are indexing in this single entry.

The process of listing characters who appeared in this source is not yet complete. This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Four Color #59 (Dec. 1944) created 20 May 2013. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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