Terry-Toons Comics #56

(May 1947)

This Easy Way Teaches Piano Without Sheet Music (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Dave Minor / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Great Flood! (Table of Contents: 2)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

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Job Number

SL-918

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The eerie beams of a pale moon gleam down on the sleeping village of Terrytown.

Feature Logo

Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Polecat (cat); various other cats; various mice of Terrytown; police officer (mouse); Chippee (dam operator mouse); polar bear; penguins; Crusher (cat); mouse technician at arctic weather station

Synopsis

Cats plan to overwhelm a dam with storm-driven rainwater, and flood out the mice of Terrytown.

Keywords

dam; flood; heroics

Indexer Notes

Job Number is "SL-918", indicating that Stan Lee likely prepared the script for this story.

The Archers (Table of Contents: 3)

Gandy Goose / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

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Letters

typeset

Job Number

SL-?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gandy had a big round package under one arm and a long oblong package under the other arm as he started up his front walk.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; woman with hat

Synopsis

Gandy gets himself an archery set. Sourpuss horns-in on Gandy's target practice.

Keywords

archery; arrows; bow; target

Indexer Notes

Job Number is "SL-" followed by illegible characters, but the "SL-" is an unofficial indicator that Stan Lee prepared the script for this story.

[Carriage Carnage] (Table of Contents: 4)

Oscar Pig / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gee! Look what's happening --- will ya, huh?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Oscar Pig; Grunty; six dog-faced onlookers (in opening splash panel); Mrs. Brown; "Bottles" Brown; cop; horse; manhole worker; painter; train engineer

Synopsis

Grunty runs all over town with a baby carriage, wreaking much havoc as he goes.

Keywords

baby carriage; oddball beginning; wreaking havoc

Indexer Notes

A most unconventional start to a story, with six goofy-looking dog-faced characters in the opening splash panel laughing and pointing down to the "actual" beginning of the Oscar Pig story - with one of them saying "Gee! Look what's happening --- will ya, huh?". These characters are not part of the story, but seem to be just a bunch of amused onlookers inhabiting the opening splash.

[Gold Is Where You Find It... Maybe?] (Table of Contents: 5)

Gandy Goose / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

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Job Number

SL-205

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bah! I'm broke again!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; mysterious turbaned stranger; Abdul (emissary of the Pasha of Hasha); Omar (emissary of the Pasha of Hasha); plumber; hot dog vendor

Synopsis

Thanks to Gandy's bumbling, a mysterious turbaned stranger forces Sourpuss to buy a "gold finder" in the form of a metal pipe. Having forked-over all his money to the stranger under duress, Sourpuss is desperate enough to follow Gandy's suggestion that they use the pipe to find gold. After a few unsuccessful attempts at "pipe-prospecting", two emissaries of the Pasha of Hasha appear to Sourpuss claiming that the pipe was stolen from their master, and offer to buy it back - but Gandy has already sold the seemingly worthless length of pipe to a plumber for 25¢. Can Sourpuss get it back again?

Keywords

buyer beware; desperate search; gold; lack-of-funds; oysters; plumbing

Indexer Notes

Job Number is "SL-205", indicating that Stan Lee likely prepared the script for this story.

Biggest Smoker's Value Ever! Windproof Lighter and Plastic Cigarette Case (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Imperial Industries / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Win Big Cash Prizes! (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Miss America Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Here's the Greatest BILLFOLD BARGAIN in all America! (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Illinois Merchandise Mart / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

"Bet He'd Like One Too!" (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Curtiss Candy Company; Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page (report information)