| Issue | #540 |
| Published | July 1957 |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Meyer A. Kaplan (Managing Editor) |
| Characters | Princess; Dog |
| Synopsis | A sleeping princess is carried away from her castle by a large dog. |
| Genre | Children; Fairy Tale |
| Pencils | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
| Inks | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
| Colors | Dik Browne ? (painting) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Front cover. Author Hans Christian Andersen is credited immediately beneath the title. |
| Synopsis | Half-page, vertically-oriented, black-and-white promo positioned on the left side of page for the next title in the Classics Illustrated Junior series, "Snow White and Rose Red". Cover and brief synopsis are included. |
| Genre | children |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
| Synopsis | Half-page, vertically-oriented, black-and-white dot-to-dot puzzle positioned on the right side of page depicting a dog. Instructions for completing and coloring the puzzle are included. |
| Genre | Children; Activity; Puzzle |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Pencils | ? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
| Characters | Soldier; Witch; Three Dogs; Princess; King; Queen; Courtiers |
| Synopsis | A soldier acquires a magic tinder-box capable of summoning three huge dogs to do his bidding. Over several nights, he orders the dogs to bring him a sleeping princess locked in a tower by her parents who fear she will marry a common soldier. When the princess's nightly whereabouts are discovered by the King and Queen, the soldier is arrested and sentenced to death. On the scaffold, he summons the three dogs and his life is saved. He marries the princess. |
| Genre | Children; Fairy Tale |
| Script | ? (adaptor); Hans Christian Andersen (original author) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Lioness; Mouse; Rabbit; Frog |
| Synopsis | When several animals boast of their large families, a lioness tells them she has only one offspring - but that one is a lion, the king of beasts. |
| Genre | Children; Fable |
| Script | ? (adaptor); Aesop (original author) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Black Hen; Gentlemen Visitors |
| Synopsis | A black hen lays eggs every day for visiting gentlemen. |
| Genre | children; Nursery Rhyme |
| Script | ? (adaptor); Mother Goose (original author) |
| Pencils | Alex Blum ? (illustration) |
| Inks | Alex Blum ? (illustration) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Synopsis | Five panel factual account of the habits, home, and diet of the kinkajou. |
| Genre | Fact; Animal |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Soldier; Princess; Three Dogs |
| Synopsis | Soldier, Princess, and Three Dogs in a woodland setting. Black-and-white, line drawn illustration to be colored with crayons. |
| Genre | Children; Activity |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
| Synopsis | Full-page, color promo for ordering back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior. Four covers, list of current titles, and a cut-out order form are included. |
| Genre | children |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |