Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat #69

(March 1956)

[Laugh, Cat, Laugh] (Table of Contents: 1)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer

Pencils

Otto Messmer

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

I didn’t know that being a pet to a scientist made you his guinea pig!

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Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; The Professor (not the character from the Felix the Cat television cartoons); down-on-his-luck bear

Synopsis

The Professor's thought wave machine causes Felix to laugh at an inappropriate time.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)
• in King Reading Library (King Features, 1973 series) #R-04 (1973)

Keywords

laughing; scientist; unintended consequences

Indexer Notes

Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10662), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited Joe Oriolo.

According to Felix expert and historian David Gerstein, author of "Nine Lives to Live a Classic Felix Celebration by Otto Messmer" (1996, Fantagraphics Books), Messmer did some pencil art during the Harvey run - but with different inkers, so his work here less reflects his more classic works of the newspaper strip and the Dell and Toby Press comics. Per indexer's personal conversation with David Gerstein (2022).

The Haunted House (Table of Contents: 2)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

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Joe Oriolo ?

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Golly! What a spooky place!

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Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; The Professor (not the character from the Felix the Cat television cartoons); two chickens; bull

Synopsis

Curious Felix sneaks into a creepy old house and is captured by The Professor, who uses the cat to test his new rocket ship.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)
• in Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1991 series) #7 (October 1992)

Keywords

haunted house; rocket ship; scientist

Indexer Notes

Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10663), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited Joe Oriolo.

Part One of Three.

[Hair Curling Haunts] (Table of Contents: 3)

Kitty / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Otto Messmer

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I’ll bet having my own beauty parlor would be fun!

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Kitty

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Kitty; real estate agent; ghost; skeleton; bats; parade of women who want their hair curled

Synopsis

Kitty converts a haunted house into a beauty parlor.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)
• in Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1991 series) #7 (October 1992)

Keywords

beauty parlor; enterprise; fright; haunted house; ingenuity; satisfied customers

Indexer Notes

Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10664, 2016-08-26.

Heavenly Daze (Table of Contents: 4)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer

Pencils

Joe Oriolo

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Joe Oriolo

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

So far, so good!

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Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; The Professor (not the character from the Felix the Cat television cartoons); wheeled green moon-man with club; spy

Synopsis

The Professor rockets Felix to the Moon, where he encounters an angry moon-man and a comet. A lurking spy has observed Felix's return to launch-point, and vows to steal the plans for the rocket ship.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)
• in Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1991 series) #7 (October 1992)

Keywords

comet; Moon; outer space setting; rocket ship; scientist; spy

Indexer Notes

Part Two of Three.

Harvey Comics News (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Harvey Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Out Spied! (Table of Contents: 6)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer

Pencils

Joe Oriolo

Inks

Joe Oriolo

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The Professor can sell the plans for a million dollars, and I'll be in clover!

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Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; The Professor (not the character from the Felix the Cat television cartoons); spy; cop; aerospace executive

Synopsis

Felix unknowingly thwarts four attempts by the spy to break into the Professor's lab and steal the rocket ship plans. Using a none-too-convincing disguise, the spy gets past Felix and finally succeeds in swiping the plans. It's up to Felix to stop him.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)
• in King Reading Library (King Features, 1973 series) #R-04 (1973)
• in Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1991 series) #7 (October 1992)

Keywords

disguise; rocket ship; scientist; spy

Indexer Notes

Part Three of Three.

Lending an Ear (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 0.75 page (report information)

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Boswell Bunny hopped gaily out into a clearing in the woods where all the little animals lived, and found Sidney Squirrel and Randy Raccoon very absorbed in a new game.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Boswell Bunny; Sidney Squirrel; Randy Raccoon; Otto Otter; Charlie Chipmunk

Synopsis

Everyone makes fun of Boswell Bunny's long ears, until their length helps pull little Charlie Chipmunk out of a deep hole.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)

Keywords

all-purpose ears; forest setting; rabbit; unlikely hero

[Boxing Octopus] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Fearless Fosdick; Wildroot Cream-Oil / comics-form advertising / 0.25 page (report information)

Black and White Magic (Table of Contents: 9)

text story / 0.75 page (report information)

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It was so hot and still in the forest that hardly a leaf stirred.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Willy Wolf; Bob Bunny; Zeke Zebra

Synopsis

Zeke Zebra demonstrates his "invisible cloak" to a skeptical Willy Wolf and Bob Bunny.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)

Keywords

camouflage; forest setting; skepticism; zebra

You'll Love Little Dot (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Harvey Comics; Little Dot / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page (report information)

"The Strange Voyage" Chapter 1 (Table of Contents: 11)

Felix the Cat Tee Vee Serial / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)

Pencils

Joe Oriolo

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Joe Oriolo

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

What fun! - I could float like this for hours!

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Felix the Cat Tee Vee Serial

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; shark; Fish-Eyed Fred (sailor)

Synopsis

After escaping a shark, Felix finds a sunken treasure chest and is hauled out of the ocean by Fish-Eyed Fred.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)

Keywords

redrawn story; reused story; sea or island setting; shark; ship; tough predicament; treasure

Indexer Notes

The first in a long series of two-page serialized adventure chapters titled "Felix the Cat Tee Vee Serial".

This first installment is in "full comic-book color". Beginning with the next chapter, the art and coloring are designed to simulate a black-and-white television program.

A reworking of several of the elements of a story titled "Felix the Cat Modern Jonah" in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954), which was reformatted from an original Otto Messmer Felix newspaper strip continuity of the 1930s.

Continues in issue #70 and beyond.

[A Log Walk off a Short Bear] (Table of Contents: 12)

Inky and Dinky / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Messmer; Joe Oriolo

Pencils

Otto Messmer

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Joe Oriolo ?

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All right, you can go on a hike - but not into the woods!

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Inky and Dinky

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Inky; Dinky; Kitty; cub; mama bear; lumberjack

Synopsis

On a woodland hike, Inky and Dinky contend with a cub-protecting mama bear and an angry lumberjack.

Reprints

• in Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #105 (September 1959)
• in King Reading Library (King Features, 1973 series) #R-04 (1973)
• in Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1991 series) #7 (October 1992)

Keywords

bears; forest setting; hike; log; lumberjack

Indexer Notes

Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10665), 2016-08-26.