Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Humpty Dumpty and the Giant"

You May Ask "How is This Easter-Related?"

Well, Humpty Dumpty's heading to visit the Easter Bunny, so...

Writer-artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly loved to mix-n'-match characters from various unrelated myths, fairy tales and nursery rhymes!

He was already putting them individually in holiday-themed situations for the annual Mother Goose Christmas and Easter comic books, so merging them in those storylines as he did in in Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #103 (1946) was a natural progression!

Trivia: While everyone knows the Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk, the Easter Bunny and Humpty Dumpty, Reynard the Fox is somewhat more obscure.

He dates back to 10th/11th Century French and German myths, as explained HERE, but was never popular in English-speaking countries.

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Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Jack Rabbit and the Beanstalk"

The only thing even vaguely Easter-related in this Walt Kelly-written and illustrated story...

...is the fact Jack Rabbit is selling Easter Eggs to make ends meet!

Accept it, and enjoy the obvious adaptation and the guest characters from other nursery rhymes and fairy tales!

This never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics #220: Easter with Mother Goose (1949) winds up our holiday-themed posts for the season.

Hope you enjoyed reading them as much as we did producing them!

Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Mr Dumpty Gets Mended" and "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater"

More holiday fun with Walk Kelly's adaptations of nursery rhymes...

...starting with a never-reprinted revisionist short from Dell's Four Color Comics #140: Easter with Mother Goose (1947), showing the Easter Bunny succeeding where All the King's Horses and All the King's Men failed!

Revisionism continues the next year, with another never-reprinted short (with guest-stars Jack and Jill), this time from Dell's Four Color Comics #185: Easter with Mother Goose (1948)...

Should we ask why Peter isn't actually living with his wife?

Trivia: this issue features the now-repaired Humpty Dumpty on the cover!

All script and art by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!

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