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Ponce Upon a Time

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Ponce Upon a Time
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Comic Story information
Released: June 2008
Comic series: Bart Simpson
First issue: Bart Simpson #42
Pages: 5
Written by: Mary Trainor


Ponce Upon a Time is a Bart Simpson story first printed in Bart Simpson #42.

Plot[edit]

Marge shows Bart pictures from the photo album, and he realizes that he will be like Homer when he gets older and feels sick, so goes out to take some air in the garden. In the garden he meets Lisa who is taking photographs with her camera, and she tells Bart a story about Fountain of Youth. Bart and Milhouse starts to look for it and they find a fountain and bathed in it, assuming it is the Fountain of Youth. Bart and Milhouse soon see the popular teenager Jake Brickbat and they wish they were teenagers like him, but suddenly they realize that they have been in the Fountain of Youth and will never become adults. Lisa met Bart and Milhouse and tells them that it does not exist, that it is only a story. Bart is happy that he will be older and he does not understand why he was so scared about growing up for he is not like Homer. Bart then falls down and Lisa take a photo of it, and the picture is exactly like a photograph depicting Homer as a child.

Reprints[edit]

Comic issue Release date Country
Bart Simpson #31 February 4, 2010 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
Bart Simpson: Prince of Pranks May 25, 2011 Flag of the United States.png


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