Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #59

(January 1955)

Terrific Value! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

40 Airplanes / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[Pureheart Perils, Italian Style] (Table of Contents: 2)

Mighty Mouse The Perils of Pearl Pureheart / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Tom Morrison (writer of original cartoon "Sunny Italy" and likely its comics adaptation); Bob Kuwahara (writer of original cartoon "Sunny Italy")

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Connie Rasinski (also director of original cartoon "Sunny Italy")

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Foreword - Dear Friends: This episode takes place in the beautiful country of Italy where there are many ancient wonderful things to behold.

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Mighty Mouse The Perils of Pearl Pureheart [St. John Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; lions; applauding Venetians

Synopsis

Oil Can Harry hangs Pearl Pureheart off the Leaning Tower of Pisa by a single strand of spaghetti, while Mighty Mouse fights thousands upon thousands of lions in the remains of the Roman Coliseum. Harry drains the canals of Venice and reignites Mt. Vesuvius in his efforts to stop Mighty Mouse but ends up getting blasted into the stratosphere by a scalding burst of steam.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #19 (October 1950)

Keywords

heroics; Italy; kidnapping; Leaning Tower of Pisa; lions; melodrama; Mt. Vesuvius; Roman Coliseum; story-adapted-from-a-cartoon

Indexer Notes

With the exception of a different ending involving the peril of Mt. Vesuvius, this story is pretty much a beat-for-beat adaptation of the 1950 Mighty Mouse theatrical short "Sunny Italy" - with, of course, the requisite operatic singing featured in the short. Release date for the cartoon and publication date of the comic indicate a parallel period of production. Information per Merlin Haas (2022).

Gandy's Three Wishes (Table of Contents: 3)

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

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'It certainly is nice to be walking around in the woods!" said Gandy as he and Sourpuss tramped their way through a forest.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; three gangsters; police

Synopsis

While walking in the woods, Gandy finds a ring capable of granting him three wishes.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #17 (June 1950)

Keywords

be-careful-what-you-wish-for; ring; wishes

Indexer Notes

In the text story's single illustration, Gandy is colored gray, rather than his usual white.

Machine Trouble (Table of Contents: 4)

Gandy Goose / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Golly, Sourpuss, we're broke again!

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Gandy Goose [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; country club manager; farmer; horse; pigs; chickens; Mr. Nolan (country club golf champion); golf spectators

Synopsis

Gandy and Sourpuss get jobs as groundskeepers at a country club, where they wreak havoc with a wild ride on a gigantic tractor-lawn mower.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #19 (October 1950)

Keywords

country club; farm; golf; groundskeepers; lawn mower; tractor; wild ride; wreaking havoc

Scrambled Yeggs (Table of Contents: 5)

Dinky / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Mr. Rudy! Mr. Rudy! Someone or something has stolen a basket of eggs!

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

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; mole

Synopsis

Rudy uses psychology on a mole to get him to return a basket of stolen eggs, but the rooster just ends up with egg-on-his-face.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #19 (October 1950)

Keywords

eggs; farm setting; know-it-all; psychology; stealing

Kids! Be the First to Send for This New Plastic Aircraft Carrier with 5 Catapulting Jets (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Aircraft Carrier with 5 Catapulting Jets / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Mighty Mouse and the Sky Pirates (Table of Contents: 7)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Hey, Slim, Here's something interesting.

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Slim (vulture); Fats (vulture); Homer Pigeon (not the Walter Lantz character); members of the Carrier Pigeon Air-Mail Delivery Squad

Synopsis

When a new Carrier Pigeon Air-Mail Delivery Squad is formed, thieving vultures Slim and Fats waylay Homer, the pigeons' captain, and steal the mail. Mighty Mouse soon cancels the vultures' stamps.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #19 (October 1950)

Keywords

airmail; carrier pigeons; ending-in-jail; heroics; piracy

Mighty Mouse now appearing on Television in the Barker Bill Cartoon Show (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

CBS Saturday Cartoons / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Runaway Freight Train (Table of Contents: 9)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Golly, I travel at the rate of 1090 feet a second, but I can't catch Mighty Mouse!

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; picnicking mice; wolf; sheriff

Synopsis

A wolf locks a bunch of picnicking mice in a freight train's boxcar and sets the train on a high-speed course to destruction. Will Mighty Mouse "come to save the day"? What do you think?

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #19 (October 1950)

Keywords

boxcar; freight train; heroics; mice; picnic; wolf

Indexer Notes

Page 6, panel 5: Jim Tyer's uniquely cartoony art stylings are wonderfully absurd in depicting Mighty Mouse stopping the runaway train in its tracks. The locomotive and a long string of boxcars compress like an accordion - except the one boxcar directly behind the locomotive that contains the mice, who are somehow thrown safely free of the wreckage.

Look at the Prized Stamp I Found! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Littleton Stamps / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Men-Women-Boys-Girls Prizes Given (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

The FUNman Religious Wall Motto Plaques / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Be in the Bucks! (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)