Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #237 [Little Yankee Shoes]

(1962)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Underwater Foes (Table of Contents: 2)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Dan Gormley

Inks

Dan Gormley

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The store you want is down the block and turn left!

Feature Logo

Adventures of MIGHTY MOUSE [Dell/Western Logo #1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; Professor Theorem; various mouse citizens; octopus; various cats of underwater city

Synopsis

Cats operate from a domed underwater city, into which they transport captive mice via a mysterious ray.

Keywords

bathysphere; cats; found technology; mice; octopus; title-disparity-between-cover-and-interior-story; transport ray; undersea setting; underwater city

Indexer Notes

While the title on the cover is "The Underwater Raiders", the title on the story itself is "The Underwater Foes".

This story uses the Western-created scientist mouse "Professor Theorem" and a generic, leaderless bunch of cats who seem to be using a citadel and technology that they just stumbled upon. The story almost cries-out for the characters that populated the St. John era Mighty Mouse continuity, such as scientist mouse "Professor Edam" and cat villains "The Claw" and "Professor Ohm". Those characters would appear at Western shortly thereafter in the Western reprints of St. John material seen in Mighty Mouse #161-165 (1964-1965), presumably indicating there was no prohibition on using such characters.

To the Rescue! (Table of Contents: 3)

Mighty Mouse / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

There are three passages, but two lead nowhere...

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse

Synopsis

Lead Mighty Mouse through a maze to rescue Mitzi, who is stretched-out on a medieval rack.

Keywords

maze puzzle

Mouse Masquerade (Table of Contents: 4)

Mighty Mouse / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

A lot of mice are wearing masks and costumes similar to Mighty Mouse's...

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse

Synopsis

Find Mighty Mouse from out of a crowd of look-alike costumed mice.

Keywords

find-the-differences-puzzle

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Just Flying Along] (Table of Contents: 6)

Mighty Mouse / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse

Synopsis

Mighty Mouse flying against a blank brown background, repurposed from another Western comic book source.

Keywords

repurposed art

Indexer Notes

The positioning of Mighty Mouse's arms and hands suggests that he is holding-up or otherwise stopping something or someone - indicating that this illustration of Mighty Mouse was lifted from another Western source.

Illustration shares back cover space with logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. Illustration comprises top third of page, lower two thirds can be blank if no named sponsor.