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'''''Maggie's Crib''''' is a series of short comic stories in [[Bart Simpson (comic book series)|Bart Simpson]], written by [[Sergio Aragonés]]. The first stories were published in issue [[Bart Simpson 50|#50]].
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'''''Maggie's Crib''''' is a series of short comic stories written and drawn by [[Sergio Aragonés]]. They are a former regular feature of {{BSC}}.
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The first stories were published in {{BS|50}}. After that, they appeared in nearly every issue of the series through [[Bart Simpson 75|#75]]. The last two stories appeared in the {{Cmc|Maggie|1}} comic from the ''[[Simpsons Comics One-Shot Wonders]]'' series.
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The stories are quite short, only one or two pages long. The stories are also wordless, but are drawn in the narration-by-illustration style typical of Aragonés' "A ''Mad'' Look at...." cartoons in ''[[Mad]]'' magazine.
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The stories' plotlines center around [[Maggie Simpson]]. A typical theme is Maggie taking action in a behind-the-scenes fashion with other characters being surprised, mystified, or victimized by the results.  
  
 
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{{TB|Maggie is sitting, watching TV when Marge take hers to her bed. Maggie wants to see the continuation of the TV show and goes from the bed to the TV room, where Homer is siting and watch TV. Maggie then fools Homer to walk away and locks him in the closet so she can finish the program.}}
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{{TB|Marge decides it's Maggie's bedtime, but Maggie wants to stay up late and watch TV. With only Homer standing between Maggie and what she wants, she figures out a way to get it.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 2.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 2.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 2|#2]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 2|#2]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|50}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|50}}}}
{{TB|Maggie wakes up at night and wants some milk. No one up in the family is up as they are all asleep, so she goes to Homer and hits him in the head with a lamp. Homer wakes up and Maggie starts to cry for milk again from her bed. Homer then goes to get some milk for Maggie.}}
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{{TB|When Maggie's nighttime cries for a glass of milk go unanswered, she takes the initiative to make sure she gets one.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 3.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 3.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 3|#3]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 3|#3]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|51}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|51}}}}
{{TB|Bart steals a cookie from the table and drops the dish with the dinner on the floor and he tries to get it to look like Maggie ruined the dinner. When Marge later finds out, Bart tells him that it was Maggie, but Marge has sufficient evidence Bart did it, as Maggie has drawn what Bart did.}}
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{{TB|Bart tries to blame Maggie for his dinnertime misdeeds, but Maggie makes sure that the truth comes out.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 4.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 4.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 4|#4]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 4|#4]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|51}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|51}}}}
{{TB|Maggie dreams that Bart is a monster, and he destroyed a wonderland. When she wakes, she takes revenge and throws wooden cubes on Bart, who does not understand why she does it.}}
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{{TB|Maggie has a nightmare where Bart destroys The Happy Little Elves' village.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 5.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 5.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 5|#5]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 5|#5]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|52}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|52}}}}
{{TB|The family drives past a state fair, but do not have time to stay there. Maggie, determined, then poops to get them to stop there for a while so they can change her diaper.}}
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{{TB|When Homer refuses to stop at the State Fair, Maggie goes to extreme measures to make him pull over.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 6.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 6.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 6|#6]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 6|#6]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|53}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|53}}}}
{{TB|Maggie is in a food store with Marge and Gerald, who is there with his mother. When Marge is not watching Maggie leaves the shopping cart and throws cornflake packets from the store shelves onto Gerald. Maggie goes back to the trolley before Marge comes back and Gerald is yelled at by his mother.}}
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{{TB|Maggie and Gerald have a fight at a grocery store.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 7.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 7.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 7|#7]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 7|#7]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|53}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|53}}}}
{{TB|Marge turns a children's program on the TV for Maggie. When Marge leaves the room, Maggie changes the channel to more violent content. When Marge comes back into the room, Maggie quickly switches back to the children's show.}}
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{{TB|When Marge leaves the room, the truth about Maggie's television viewing preferences is revealed.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 8.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 8.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 8|#8]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 8|#8]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|54}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|54}}}}
{{TB|Maggie is playing in the sandbox and pretends that she is a archaeologist in Egypt. She finds a sarcophagus when she gets attacked by a bandit, but she throws sand in his face. Maggie wakes up from her dream and has thrown sand in the face of a woman and her baby.}}
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{{TB|In Maggie's imagination, the park sandbox becomes an archaeological dig in Egypt.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 9.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 9.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 9|#9]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 9|#9]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|56}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|56}}}}
{{TB|Maggie wakes up when Snake is robbing the Simpson's house. She tries to wake the dog but fails. She then dresses herself up as an adult with a gun to scare him off and she stands in front of a lamp that produces a large shadow of her.}}
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{{TB|When Snake burglarizes the Simpson home, it's up to Maggie to scare him off.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 10.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 10.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 10|#10]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 10|#10]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|57}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|57}}}}
{{TB|The Simpson family are at an amusement park and Homer is trying to win a pony for Lisa at a stand but fails. Maggie also tries to win the pony at a different stand and manages to win it, giving it to Lisa.}}
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{{TB|The Simpson family visit the carnival at a fair, and Maggie tests her marksmanship against Homer's.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 11.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 11.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 11|#11]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 11|#11]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|58}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|58}}}}
{{TB|Maggie wakes up during a thunderstorm and goes to bed with Homer and Marge but they snore so loudly that Maggie goes back to her own bed.}}
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{{TB|Maggie is scared awake by a thunderstorm.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 12.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 12.png|200px]]}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 12|#12]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 12|#12]]'''}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|58}}}}
 
{{TB|{{BS|58}}}}
{{TB|Homer finds a Rubik's Cube but can not solve it, so he gives it to Lisa, who also couldn't solve it. She throws it to Maggie and a moment later, it's solved. Marge and Homer, unaware of Maggie's involvement, are happy that Lisa solved it.}}
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{{TB|When Homer and Lisa are stumped by a [[Rubik's Cube]], Maggie takes over.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 13.png|200px]]}}
 
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 13|#13]]'''}}
 
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{{TB|{{BS|59}}}}
 
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{{TB|Homer and Maggie are eating when Maggie discovers that Homer's food is tastier. She throws her plate on the floor and Homer is forced to pick it up. Meanwhile Maggie eats all off Homer's food.}}
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{{TB|Maggie finds Homer's dinner more appetizing than her own.}}
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 14|#14]]'''}}
 
{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 14|#14]]'''}}
 
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{{TB|Maggie and Homer clash over who gets to use the kiddie pool.}}
 
{{TB|Maggie and Homer clash over who gets to use the kiddie pool.}}
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 24|#24]]'''}}
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{{TB|{{BS|72}}}}
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{{TB|During a family trip to the zoo, Maggie's attempt at interspecies communication wins her a new friend.}}
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{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 25.jpg|200px]]}}
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 25|#25]]'''}}
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{{TB|{{BS|73}}}}
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{{TB|Marge sends Homer out to buy a box of diapers.}}
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 26|#26]]'''}}
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{{TB|{{BS|74}}}}
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{{TB|Maggie dials back her artistic skills to fit in with the other babies at the day care center.}}
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 27|#27]]'''}}
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{{TB|{{BS|75}}}}
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{{TB|While practicing her sax, Lisa finds an error in some sheet music from school. When she can't figure it out, Maggie solves the problem with some quick pencilwork.}}
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{{TBT|[[File:Maggie's Crib 28.jpg|200px]]}}
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 28|#28]]'''}}
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{{TB|Bart is bewildered by the assembly instructions for his new radio-controlled airplane, but Maggie gets the job done.}}
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{{TB|'''[[Maggie's Crib 29|#29]]'''}}
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{{TB|{{OSW|M}}}}
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{{TB|Maggie and Bart clash over what to watch on TV, and Maggie gets her way by pulling a prank and framing Bart.}}
 
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== See also ==
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*[[Li'l Krusty]]
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{{Maggie's Crib}}
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[[Category:Maggie's Crib| ]]
 
[[Category:Bart Simpson comics stories]]
 
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[[Category:Simpsons Comics One-Shot Wonders stories]]

Latest revision as of 11:03, April 14, 2024


Maggie's Crib is a series of short comic stories written and drawn by Sergio Aragonés. They are a former regular feature of Bart Simpson.

The first stories were published in Bart Simpson #50. After that, they appeared in nearly every issue of the series through #75. The last two stories appeared in the Maggie #1 comic from the Simpsons Comics One-Shot Wonders series.

The stories are quite short, only one or two pages long. The stories are also wordless, but are drawn in the narration-by-illustration style typical of Aragonés' "A Mad Look at...." cartoons in Mad magazine.

The stories' plotlines center around Maggie Simpson. A typical theme is Maggie taking action in a behind-the-scenes fashion with other characters being surprised, mystified, or victimized by the results.

Stories[edit]

Picture # Issue Synopsis
Maggie's Crib 1.png #1 Bart Simpson #50 Marge decides it's Maggie's bedtime, but Maggie wants to stay up late and watch TV. With only Homer standing between Maggie and what she wants, she figures out a way to get it.
Maggie's Crib 2.png #2 Bart Simpson #50 When Maggie's nighttime cries for a glass of milk go unanswered, she takes the initiative to make sure she gets one.
Maggie's Crib 3.png #3 Bart Simpson #51 Bart tries to blame Maggie for his dinnertime misdeeds, but Maggie makes sure that the truth comes out.
Maggie's Crib 4.png #4 Bart Simpson #51 Maggie has a nightmare where Bart destroys The Happy Little Elves' village.
Maggie's Crib 5.png #5 Bart Simpson #52 When Homer refuses to stop at the State Fair, Maggie goes to extreme measures to make him pull over.
Maggie's Crib 6.png #6 Bart Simpson #53 Maggie and Gerald have a fight at a grocery store.
Maggie's Crib 7.png #7 Bart Simpson #53 When Marge leaves the room, the truth about Maggie's television viewing preferences is revealed.
Maggie's Crib 8.png #8 Bart Simpson #54 In Maggie's imagination, the park sandbox becomes an archaeological dig in Egypt.
Maggie's Crib 9.png #9 Bart Simpson #56 When Snake burglarizes the Simpson home, it's up to Maggie to scare him off.
Maggie's Crib 10.png #10 Bart Simpson #57 The Simpson family visit the carnival at a fair, and Maggie tests her marksmanship against Homer's.
Maggie's Crib 11.png #11 Bart Simpson #58 Maggie is scared awake by a thunderstorm.
Maggie's Crib 12.png #12 Bart Simpson #58 When Homer and Lisa are stumped by a Rubik's Cube, Maggie takes over.
Maggie's Crib 13.png #13 Bart Simpson #59 Maggie finds Homer's dinner more appetizing than her own.
Maggie's Crib 14.png #14 Bart Simpson #61 For once, Maggie's imagination lets her down.
Maggie's Crib 15.png #15 Bart Simpson #62 Homer finds a way to drink at Moe's and take Maggie to the playground at the same time.
Maggie's Crib 16.png #16 Bart Simpson #63 At the beach, Maggie dodges a family photograph—for what turns out to be good reason.
Maggie's Crib 17.png #17 Bart Simpson #65 When Marge meets up with Gerald's mother, Maggie and Gerald have a confrontation.
Maggie's Crib 18.png #18 Bart Simpson #66 Maggie's imagination turns a sandbox in the park into a jungle filled with dinosaurs.
Maggie's Crib 19.png #19 Bart Simpson #67 When Marge and Maggie go shopping, it's a case of "like mother, like daughter".
Maggie's Crib 20 Maggie.png #20 Bart Simpson #68 Maggie goes missing during a bath.
Maggie's Crib 21.jpg #21 Bart Simpson #69 When Homer's car won't start, Maggie goes into action.
Maggie's Crib 22.jpg #22 Bart Simpson #70 The Simpson family go to the circus and find a mystery on their hands when they get home.
Maggie's Crib 23.jpg #23 Bart Simpson #71 Maggie and Homer clash over who gets to use the kiddie pool.
Maggie's Crib 24.jpg #24 Bart Simpson #72 During a family trip to the zoo, Maggie's attempt at interspecies communication wins her a new friend.
Maggie's Crib 25.jpg #25 Bart Simpson #73 Marge sends Homer out to buy a box of diapers.
Maggie's Crib 26.jpg #26 Bart Simpson #74 Maggie dials back her artistic skills to fit in with the other babies at the day care center.
Maggie's Crib 27.jpg #27 Bart Simpson #75 While practicing her sax, Lisa finds an error in some sheet music from school. When she can't figure it out, Maggie solves the problem with some quick pencilwork.
Maggie's Crib 28.jpg #28 Simpsons Comics One-Shot Wonders One-Shot WonderMaggie #1 Bart is bewildered by the assembly instructions for his new radio-controlled airplane, but Maggie gets the job done.
Maggie's Crib 29.jpg #29 Simpsons Comics One-Shot Wonders One-Shot WonderMaggie #1 Maggie and Bart clash over what to watch on TV, and Maggie gets her way by pulling a prank and framing Bart.

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