Category: Media

This Week Magazine (1943-04-11)

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  • Published: April 11, 1943
  • Nationally-syndicated Sunday magazine supplement for American newspapers

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“Gremlins… A Warning!”

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  • First published:
    • April 11, 1943 issue of This Week Magazine, a nationally-syndicated Sunday magazine supplement for American newspapers
  • Credited to:
    • “Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl, Author of ‘The Gremlins’”
    • “Illustrated by Walt Disney” (in actuality, thought to have been done primarily by Disney animator Bill Justice)
  • Trivia:
    • This “preview” was part of a marketing push by Disney to “whet the public’s appetite” ahead of the planned Gremlins feature film. (Source: Leonard Maltin’s introduction to the 2006 reprint of The Gremlins.)

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Once Upon a Planet

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  • “An anthology of stories and extracts in aid of Friends of the Earth”
  • Published by:
    • Puffin, 1989
  • Contains:

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The Book of Children’s Classics

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  • Published by:
    • Dutton Children’s Books, 1997
  • Contains:

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The Upside-Down Mice and Other Animal Stories

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Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”.

  • First edition:
    • Piccadilly Press, 1988, UK.
      • To identify: Used a series of © attributions with the final one for Merer as the compiler of the collection, then dated 1988. Published without a dust jacket and priced at £7.99.
  • Compiled by: Jane Merer

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