Paul Terry's Comics #116

(August 1954)

Why Just Wish for the Things You Want? (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Wallace Brown, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Repelling Ray (Table of Contents: 2)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Connie Rasinski (signed)

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Connie Rasinski (signed)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Has the jury reached a verdict?

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; The Claw; Professor Ohm; Terrytown judge; Terrytown jury (mice); cat defense attorney; various court spectators (mice); Terrytown court bailiff (large mouse); Terrytown chief of police; various Terrytown police (mice); Mitzi Mouse (one panel cameo); various citizens of Terrytown (mice); various members of The Claw Gang

Synopsis

The Claw is convicted by a Terrytown jury and sentenced to life imprisonment, but is broken out of prison by Professor Ohm and his repelling ray machine.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Indexer Notes

court; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; prison; prison break; ray machine; sentencing

The Overly-Convincing Hiccup Cure (Table of Contents: 3)

Dimwit / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

Art Bartsch (signed as AEB)

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Art Bartsch (signed as AEB)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hic -- Do you fellows -- hic -- know how to cure hiccups? Huh? Hic!

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Dimwit [St. John Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; cop

Synopsis

Heckle and Jeckle do too good a job of scaring Dimwit out of the hiccups.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

best of intentions; cure; getting carried away; hiccups; scare; unintended consequences

Rudy's Spectacles (Table of Contents: 4)

Rudy Rooster / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

He looks so intelligent in glasses.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Rudy Rooster; college professor; optometrist; eyeglass store saleswoman; Elmer (duck); other unnamed duck

Synopsis

Rudy decides to get a pair of eyeglasses, so that he might look intelligent.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

eyeglasses; wrong impression

Moving Day (Table of Contents: 5)

Sourpuss / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Get out and stay out!

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Sourpuss [St. John Logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Sourpuss; Gandy Goose; Susie (Sourpuss' girl); Susie's dad

Synopsis

Susie's dad berates Sourpuss for not having a job. Sourpuss gets a job with the "McNutt Moving Co.", and his first job is to move Susie and her dad out of their house.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

dishes; moving day; moving van; new job; piano; wreaking havoc

Dimwit Improves Himself (Table of Contents: 6)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

"We've got to get our finances straightened out right away!" said Jeckle to Heckle as they sat in their little living room.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

Synopsis

Heckle and Jeckle condition Dimwit for a job as a joke-tester at the Zenith Novelty Company, by subjecting him to a series of gags such as squirting flowers and exploding cigars.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

coloring oddity; gags; new job; novelties

Indexer Notes

The original printing of this two-page text story was spread over the front and back inside covers. This reprint is repositioned to pages 3 and 4 of the issue’s centerfold. Despite being on interior pages, the single illustration remains in black-and-white as if it were on an inside cover.

Don't Lose Your Temper (Table of Contents: 7)

Dinky / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Jim Tyer

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Jim Tyer

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Confound it! I'm tired of listening to those babbling hens.

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Dinky [Duck] [St. John logo without character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; hens; fox

Synopsis

Rudy replaces his flock of incessantly-cackling hens with a "robot chicken".

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

eggs; hens; robot chicken; unintended slapstick consequences

Indexer Notes

Oddly, the fox in this story is not a predator but an innocent and unwitting customer of Rudy's "robot chicken eggs".

Sourpuss Fells a Tree (Table of Contents: 8)

Sourpuss / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Oh, Gandy, will you come here please?

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Sourpuss [St. John Logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Sourpuss; Gandy Goose; Kitty

Synopsis

Sourpuss shows Gandy how to properly chop down a tree so that it falls without causing any damage. Sure he does.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

chopping; know-it-all; tree; unintended consequences

A Thousand and One Plights (Table of Contents: 9)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Jim Tyer (signed)

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Jim Tyer (signed)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

I've got an idea that will make us rich.

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo without characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; lady hippo; parade of gullible victims; Officer Reilly; judge; various other police; Spud (bank robber); second unnamed bank robber; genie

Synopsis

Heckle and Jeckle literally stuff and cram Dimwit into a small bottle one quarter of his size to perpetrate a "genie scam" on the cops who look to shut down the magpies' phony fortune-telling business. When Dimwit is finally released from his impossibly small container, he becomes the not-so-mystic servant of Officer Reilly, in another wild outing aptly illustrated by Tyer.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

bottle; comic absurdity; fortune-telling; genie; get-rich-quick; scam; series of mishaps; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

A rare, if not singular, instance of Jim Tyer signing his comic book work. Tyer's signature appears in a box at the lower right of the final panel, that would normally contain the words "The End".

Tyer Touch: In a panic the two bank robbers actually climb one of the panel gutters, clutching the gutter on both sides as if it were a fireman's pole.

Muscle Biscuit (Table of Contents: 10)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Art Bartsch (signed as AEB)

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Art Bartsch (signed as AEB)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Step up, chum, and try Dr. Jeckle's Muscle Building Biscuit only a dollar.

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo without characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

Synopsis

Heckle and Jeckle sell Dimwit a phony "Muscle Building Biscuit" only to be convinced that it really works.

Reprints

• from Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #79 (March 1950)

Keywords

buyer beware; muscle-building; scam; wrong impression

New! 1954 "Space Commander" Vibro-Matic Walkie-Talkies (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Consumers Mart / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Men-Women-Boys-Girls Prizes Given (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

The FUNman / advertisement / 1 page (report information)