Four Color #68

Few artists could make nursery rhymes feel this alive, and Walt Kelly's cover for this 1945 Dell issue is a joyful testament to why. A cheerful cat serenades the night on his fiddle beneath a great golden moon, while a cow leaps overhead against a starry sky, a laughing dog rolls in delight, and a tiny dish-and-spoon silhouette dances in the moonlight — all framed by a border teeming with frolicking storybook children. It's a warm, wonderfully charming invitation to the nursery-rhyme fun waiting inside Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics.