Classics Illustrated Junior #540
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"The Tinder-Box" from Classics Illustrated Junior #540 (1957) delivers a classic fairy tale with a twist, adapted from the original story by Hans Christian Andersen and brought to life by William A. Walsh’s expressive artwork. A soldier’s fateful encounter with a magical tinder-box sets off a daring quest to rescue a princess imprisoned in a tower, leading to a dramatic trial and a miraculous escape on the scaffold. With crisp, detailed illustrations by Walsh on both the interior and cover, this 15-cent gem offers a timeless tale of courage and fate, perfectly capturing the wonder of the original legend.
In "The Tinder-Box," a soldier wields a magical tinder-box that calls forth three enormous dogs to obey his commands. With their help, he secretly retrieves a sleeping princess locked away in a tower by her fearful parents, who dread her marrying a common man. When the king and queen uncover the truth, the soldier is condemned to die—but on the scaffold, he summons the dogs to save his life. The story’s outcome remains a mystery, but the tale unfolds with wonder and quiet daring.
In this charming 1957 tale from Classics Illustrated Junior #540, a lioness quietly holds her ground when other animals boast about their many young, revealing with quiet pride that though she has only one cub, that cub is a lion—the king of beasts. A simple, clever moment of understated confidence, told in just two pages with crisp typeset letters and no known writer or artist credited.
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Reprinted in Eventyrserien #53 (1960), Junior Eventyrbladet [Eventyrbladet] #53 (1960), Sagoserien #53 (1960), Sprookjes in beeld #53 (1960), Bildermärchen #51
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