Aesop's Fables, Modern Version No 1: Golden Age Comics 1944-1947
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2021
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Here are nine stories from various comic books from 1944 to 1947. The particular sources are listed on the page following the last page of fables, along with pictured covers of six of them. I am delighted to see these versions preserved and even cleaned up, as is suggested on the booklet's first page advertising the "Comic Books Restore Project." It is a shame that the booklet is not paginated, particularly because this copy's page sequencing is confused. The first story, DW, loses its fourth and final page until fourteen pages later. Both OF and GA have their two cartoon pages reversed. BC runs into two problems: an early bubble has "frieind" for "friend," and the back cover has "The Council in Mice" rather than "The Mice in Council." "Funny Bees-ness" seems to be told in reverse and is new to me: a grasshopper entices an ant to rob honey; apparently the grasshopper pays for it. The second half of the booklet seems to have the proper sequencing. A curious feature of one particular story is that not a bat but a duck is the animal who sits out the war of the birds and beasts. Several stories present a prose text in addition to the cartoon "bubbles." This is a noble undertaking!
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13314 (Access ID)