Monday Madness / Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Easter Bunny and the Dwarf"

To be clear, "dwarf" is not politically incorrect...

...so just sit back and enjoy the never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #140 (1947) without any guilt!

This story, written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly features a number of nursery rhyme characters including Jack and Jill (who went up a hill), Little Jack Horner, and Mother Goose herself.

But, it is not, as was often the case with Kelly's holiday pieces, an adaptation of existing nursery rhymes, but a totally-new tale!
It's also a prequel to the book's main tale featuring an Easter party...which you'll see on Easter Sunday!

Holiday Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Candy Egg"

Here's a (literally) sweet, never-reprinted Walt (Pogo) Kelly short...

...from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #220 (1948)!

Imagine getting one of these 52-page annuals in your Easter basket along with jellybeans, chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps!

Several 7-10 page stories, a number of 1-3 page features, games, and, usually, a wraparound cover!

Would've kept a 5-8 year-old me occupied in those dark days before TV (much less the Internet)!
Good thing I was born after that era...

Space-Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "...Battles the Ice Age"

Though World War II was Over, Captain Midnight Continued Protecting People...

...no matter where they were...including Outer Space!

Remember this story was written in 1948 for kids.

The average adult, much less a child, knew little about nuclear radiation.
All the typical reader understood about atomic bombs was their sheer destructive power and that they generated incredible heat!
(Somewhat) instructional films like Duck & Cover...

...were still several years in the future!

Without an ongoing foe, the "Sentinel of the Spaceways" had a series of one-shot adventures involving alien races, and Earth colonies on other worlds, as shown in this story illustrated by Leonard Frank from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #59 (1948)!

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Friday Holiday Fun OSWALD THE RABBIT "Prehistoric Egg" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...actually, we haven't see this yet...but we're about to, as Doc Weskit is called upon by a couple of Amazons to help stop a civil war!

All together now...

IT WAS JUST A DREAM!

Written by John Stanley, illustrated by Dan Gormley, it didn't make a whole lot of sense!

But, you can't deny it was fun!

Easter Reading Room OSWALD THE RABBIT "Prehistoric Egg" Part 3

When Last We Left Oswald, Toby, and Doc Weskit...

...they had just been brought before the Queen of the Lost City of Oakie Doakie!

How can Doc help against robots and tanks?

I offer one word...

Dinosaur

...as we shall see Friday!

And you thought this tale couldn't get any weirder!

Easter Reading Room OSWALD THE RABBIT "Prehistoric Egg" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...itererant buddies Oswald and Toby inadvertantly end up being recruited into participating in Dr Weskit's search for the lost city of Oakie Doakie.
Traveling there by rocket, they prepare to explore the island...












To Be Continued
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