Mr. Tickle (Mr. Men #1)

UK original; there is no competing US or original-language edition, as the Mr. Men began as a British series. Precedence runs Fabbri & Partners (London, 10 August 1971), then Thurman Publishing (London, from the mid-1970s), then later Price Stern Sloan (US), World International/Egmont and current Egmont/Farshore issues. Only the Fabbri issue is the first edition. Sources differ on whether the launch group was six titles (Mr. Tickle, Mr. Greedy, Mr. Happy, Mr. Nosey, Mr. Sneeze, Mr. Bump) or seven (adding Mr. Snow); Mr. Tickle is consistently listed first in every account.