Four Color #862

Dell's Four Color #862 brings Walt Disney's The Truth About Mother Goose to the comics page in this cheerful 1957 one-shot, with cover art by Pete Alvarado. The cover sets a wonderfully whimsical tone: a bespectacled, tall-hatted Mother Goose rides her great white goose through the air, nose-deep in a book labeled "HISTORY," while a swirl of nursery-rhyme characters — a fiddling cat, tumbling dogs, birds, and more tiny figures — scatter playfully across a sunny yellow background. Carl Fallberg and Pete Alvarado bring the same warm energy to the interior, making this a delightful companion to Disney's animated short of the same year.