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- The mailman just brought it!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; three comic-reading little mice; bad little mouse; farmer; cow; crows; truck driver; junkman; junkman's horse; four hungry cats
- Synopsis
- As three good little mice thrill to the exploits of their hero in "Mighty Mouse Comics", a "bad little mouse" (He MUST be bad, because he wears a derby!) who doesn't believe in Mighty Mouse sets out to make trouble. But even a tough mouse can bite off more trouble than he can chew (...or gnaw).
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- comic books; juvenile delinquent; kids-at-mischief; learning one’s lesson; meta humor; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal
Meta Moment: Mice are reading a copy of Mighty Mouse Comics within a story in Mighty Mouse Comics.
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- A blight has hit Terrytown. The people struggle with an unknown source of annoyance.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; various citizens of Terrytown; various police of Terrytown
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- Oil Can Harry frames Mighty Mouse for a series of pranks and misdeeds against the citizens of Terrytown, proving his "guilt" to the exceedingly fickle crowd (that alternately cheers him or wants him hanged with incredibly rapid shifts of mood) using a poorly fashioned Mighty Mouse inflatable balloon. Can Pearl Pureheart turn (and keep) the tide of public opinion firmly "for" our hero?
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- balloon doppelganger; comic absurdity; fame-is-fleeting; frame-up; hanging; pranks; rapidly shifting sentiments; wrong impression
The Tyer Touch: Oil Can Harry takes great delight in Mighty Mouse's misfortune. CAPTION: "...and Oil Can Harry died laughing." One panel Harry is overcome with laughter, the next he is laid out on the ground holding a flower at his chest! For good measure, Tyer goes to this gag twice.
Pearl Pureheart saves Mighty Mouse from hanging at the last moment, by presenting the Mighty Mouse balloon as proof of his innocence. She addresses the hangman: "Unhand him, you old goat! The Mighty Mouse that you saw was a fake!" ...And, sure enough, the hangman character is "an old (anthropomorphic) goat"!
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- -- And, in case of emergency, all good scouts should be prepared.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Terry Bears; Papa; Mama
- Synopsis
- The boys practice their scouting first aid techniques on poor Papa!
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- best of intentions; first aid
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- Let's go up on top of the mountain! The berries are bigger up there!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; two berry-picking boys; volunteer fire department; army of volcano men; citizens of Terrytown
- Synopsis
- Mighty Mouse turns back an invasion of red-hot volcano men.
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- comic absurdity; fire; invasion; lake; volcano; volcano men
The Tyer Touch: Jim Tyer gives us a band of hapless volunteer firefighters, who turn and run at the first sight of the volcano men. They head for a boat, that they sail to the middle of the lake - AND STOP, remaining becalmed and inactive as the volcano men begin to boil the lake. "What's delaying Mighty Mouse? This water is getting warmer and warmer!"
They despondently await a fate that they could easily have walked (or sailed, or swam) away from while the lake was merely warming ("All is lost! The water is BEGINNING TO BOIL!"), instead wishing for ice cream sodas, and preparing a gigantic, outsized "Last Will and Testament" from within their motionless boat. Tyer's drawings of these characters as gooney and very tightly pressed together (as if they were one) complements the absurdity.
ERROR OR ON-PURPOSE GAG?: Two consecutive panels of the fight between Mighty Mouse and the volcano men offer the captions "A LEFT to a blazing jaw" and "A RIGHT to a fiery solar plexus", but Tyer draws Mighty Mouse hitting the volcano men with the SAME fist (his left). With Tyer, it could be either an error... or a purposeful gag.
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- Archer St. John (signed) (publisher)
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- typeset
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- Keywords
- government reporting; regulations; Statement of Ownership-reprint
Lower half of page.
This entire page, consisting of the Cracker Jack ad above and the accompanying Statement of Ownership (for "Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics", October 1, 1951), is reprinted in its entirety in this issue - in the exact configuration and position that the page appeared in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 Series) #29 (November 1951). https://www.comics.org/issue/241831/
It is likely just part of the wholesale reprinting of Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #29 into Mighty Mouse Album #1.
This could be the only time a Statement of Ownership was reprinted in a subsequent issue of a completely different title.
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- Farmer Gray, may I have a cabbage like you promised me?
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- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Farmer Gray; gopher
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- Farmer Gray plants a firecracker in a cabbage to rid himself of a gopher.
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- best-laid-plans; cabbage; farm setting; firecracker; gopher
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- "I say, old axe-beak, let us be off to the show spots about town!" suggested Jeckle to his magpie pal as they lounged in their living room.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit
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- With visions of a huge reward, Heckle and Jeckle talk Dimwit into diving to the bottom of Terrytown Bay to search for a rich lady's lost pearl necklace.
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- diving; necklace; reward
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- High up in the hills overlooking a peaceful valley, lived Mister Brown in his humble cottage.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Mr. Brown; Mrs. Brown; the Brown's two children; Mr. Flint; Mr. Flint's two thugs; Farmer Tom and family
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- Mr. Brown is proud of his humble family farm, and refuses to sell when rich man Mr. Flint demands. Flint resorts to arson and kidnapping as methods of persuasion - Mighty Mouse will have none of that.
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- arson; developer; farm setting; farmer; heroics; intimidation; kidnapping
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- As Mighty Mouse loafs easily along through azure skies at ¼ jet power…
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; careless young rabbit; fox; turtle; skinny rabbit (young rabbit's cousin)
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- Mighty Mouse must continually rescue a young rabbit with no common sense.
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- bother; cage; cleaver; drowning; fire; fox; island; rabbit; rescue; stewpot; turtle; wood stove
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- What are you reading, Sourpuss?
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; little boxer
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- Sourpuss trains to become a boxer, but is quickly dissuaded.
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- best-laid-plans; boxing
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- So! Eating peanuts again!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Fatty (plump young cat); Pop (Fatty's dad); lots of country mice
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- Young Fatty proves to his pop that even a slow, fat cat can catch mice, if he uses brains. All goes according to plan, until Mighty Mouse shows up.
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- creator reference; father and son; ingenuity; overweight; rainstorm; tin can; venetian blinds
To escape a sudden rainstorm, the country mice hide inside a can of “Tyer’s Corn” – a reference to fan-favorite Terrytoons animator and comic book artist Jim Tyer. Tyer did not draw this story.
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- Psst, are you going to the hen house for eggs again?
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Dinky Duck; fox
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- A fox forces Dinky to steal eggs for him.
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- eggs; hen house; unwelcome surprise
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- Did you ever see Mighty Mouse?
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; two kittens; father cat; young father cat (flashback); father cat's clan (flashback); rabbit
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- A cat tells his kittens about how Mighty Mouse saved him, when he was a kitten.
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- disbelief; father and sons; legend; rescue; wrong impression
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- Hmm! Missed again!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Little Roquefort; Percy Puss; bulldog
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- Percy has Little Roquefort tied and staked to the ground, and bombs him with tomatoes. Until one tomato flies errantly…
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- reversal of fortunes; tomatoes
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- Hey, Dinky, what happened to your rooster friend?
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; yellow duckling
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- Rudy takes first prize in the barnyard bridge game, but not in the conventional sense.
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- first prize
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- Isn’t it funny, when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to my head…
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
- Synopsis
- Gandy inadvertently insults Sourpuss.
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- blood; insult; standing on one's head; wrong impression
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- "I say!" exclaimed Jeckle as he read the daily Terrytown newspaper.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; contest judge
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- Heckle and Jeckle are out to win the cash prize at the Tall Story Club's whopper competition. Figuring Dimwit to be a prime subject for an outrageous tale of adventurous feats, the magpies make up a tall tale about him. Dimwit, however, is a firm believer in truth and takes issue with the fictitious story.
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- competition; Lake Erie; Niagara Falls; tall tales
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- In our last episode, we left Pearl Pureheart tied to a ten-ton fire-belching dragon.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; dragon; citizens of Terrytown; Mrs. Nosey; Detective Owl; Detective Owl’s unnamed “trusty assistant”; Jupiter’s greeter; Stone Men
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- Oil Can Harry invents a “thinking cap” that gives him the brain power to devise the means to spirit Pearl Pureheart off to the planet Jupiter.
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- comic absurdity; dragon; flying saucer; Jupiter; kidnapping; peril; rescue; thinking cap; wanted posters
Drawn in Tyer's loose, wild style. On page 3, panel 1, there are wanted posters for Oil Can Harry from (1) Tokyo, Japan (written with psuedo Japanese characters), (2) Burglary - South America (No country - the whole continent!), (3) Larceny - Miami, Florida, (4) Cleveland (no state mentioned), (5) Worcester, Mass, (6) Detroit, Mich, (7) Fairlawn, N.J., (8) Lee, Mass - Forgery, (9) "Look for this man - St. Louis Police", and... (10) "Arrest - Hold and Wire Bridgeport Police - Wife Beating".
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- Connie Rasinski (signed)
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- Alas, the pity of it all! To think the I, Jeckle Von Magpie, once the official messenger for His Majesty should now be reduced to a common vagrant.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; carrier pigeon race judge; various animal race spectators; Nothin' Flat Flannigan (carrier pigeon); motorcycle cop
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- The magpies enter a cross country carrier pigeon race, and pull out all the sly stops to win.
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- be-careful-what-you-wish-for; best-laid-plans; carrier pigeon; cheating; race
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- John Foster (credited co-writer of original cartoon); Tom Morrison (un-credited co-writer of original cartoon)
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- Art Bartsch (signed)
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- Do you realize, old bean, that we cartoon characters have a wonderful life? We can do anything we think of.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; Chesty
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- Heckle and Jeckle, aware of the fact that they are cartoon characters, realize that they have the power to do anything (or become anything) that they can think of. Running afoul of Chesty, the magpies use their powers to bedevil the bulldog in a most zany fashion.
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- being-cartoon-characters; comic absurdity; heckling; meta humor; story-adapted-from-a-cartoon; thought
Adapted from the Heckle and Jeckle theatrical animated short "The Power of Thought" (1948, per IMDB), written by John Foster (credited) and Tom Morrison (uncredited) and directed by Eddie Donnelly.
While there are slight differences in the inclusion of the gags (or their execution, allowing for the static comic book pages), it is a faithful adaptation of the cartoon. The only notable difference is that Chesty is a cop in the short, while the comic presents him as his "angry bulldog-self".
A February, 1949 cover date for the original printing of this story indicates that the cartoon and its comic book adaptation might have been concurrent.
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- I tell you I'm the fastest thing on Earth. Why there isn't a magpie living that could be at that tree before me!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; bragging rabbit
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- Heckle and Jeckle outfox a bragging rabbit, beating him in a race.
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- bragging; magpies; rabbit; race; trickery; wager
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- A merry morning finds the madcap magpies meandering many miles from mankind ---
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; lion (garage mechanic); angry bulldog (small plane pilot)
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- Heckle and Jeckle are two traveling salesman of "lucky neckties" that light-up spelling the word "Pappy". They happen upon a remote desert garage, where the resident mechanic (and lone employee), a gullible lion, buys a "Pappy" tie to give him good luck. He has nothing but bad luck from that point on, the "lion's share" of it brought on by the magpies.
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- buyer beware; desert setting; dissatisfied customer; garage; mechanic; neckties; series of mishaps; small plane; traveling salesman
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- What have you there, Gandy?
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Sourpuss; Gandy Goose; cop
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- As the title states, Sourpuss throws a boomerang. It comes back with a little surprise.
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- boomerang; notable coloring modification; unwelcome surprise
Sourpuss and Gandy Goose are both colored gray in this story.
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- It's a lie. That's what it is! They can't say those things about me!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; fox
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- Angered by the Aesop's Fable of "The Fox and the Grapes", a fox sets out to prove that he can get the grapes... and eat 'em too! Heckle and Jeckle are on hand to... er, help.
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- Aesop's Fables; be-careful-what-you-wish-for; forest setting; fox; grapes; hard lesson learned
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- Do Re Me Fa-a-a
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster
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- Rudy practices opera, with the hope of breaking in at the local opera house.
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- exaggerating one’s importance; opera; overconfidence
On final interior page of the comic.