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- Dimwit certainly enjoyed his new shiny blue convertible!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Dimwit; Heckle; Jeckle; police officer
- Synopsis
- Heckle and Jeckle scheme to "borrow" Dimwit's new car to impress their dates.
- Keywords
- car; caught-in-the-act; masquerade party; trickery
Begins on the inside front cover (page 1) and concludes on the inside back cover (page 2). One black and white illustration on page 1.
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- Happy Birthday to Heckle - happy birthday to you!
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Heckle; Jeckle; old man in portrait painting; Lester (pigeon); flock of other pigeons; milkman; baby; other upset citizens; black-masked robbers; police chief; Pickfingers Percy (crime boss); various members of Percy's gang; Louie (member of Percy's gang); fox (member of Percy's gang)
- Synopsis
- Heckle and Jeckle put an end to the city's massive crime wave with "Liquid Magnetism", invented by Heckle with the chemistry set he received for his birthday.
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- birthday; comic absurdity; crime wave; formula; strange chemical properties
The Tyer Touch: In the midst of the crime wave...
CAPTION: "The police chief's hands are tied." We see the chief sitting forlornly at his desk - with large and tightly wound ropes around his wrists.
POLICE CHIEF: (in despair): "I can only sit helplessly by while they steal the station house!" We see three burglars lifting the frame of the police station, and carrying it off.
Pickfingers Percy, the crime boss, does his best impression of Edward G. Robinson:
PERCY: "I'm BOSS here, seeee!! I've got BRAINS, seeee!"
MEMBERS OF GANG (answering individually): "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "No!!" "Yes."
...The one who said "No!!" gets shot!
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- Let's go for a walk!
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Sourpuss; Gandy Goose; female cat
- Synopsis
- Showing courtly courtesy, Sourpuss lays his coat over a puddle allowing a female cat to cross, a la Sir Walter Raleigh. Unfortunately for him, times have changed.
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- best of intentions; coat; courtesy; crossing; leave-well-enough-alone; puddle; Sir Walter Raleigh
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- Every time I kiss my girl, I put a dime in her bank.
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Heckle; Jeckle
- Synopsis
- Romantic secrets are spilled between the magpies, and also some blood!
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- bank; kissing; romantic secrets; suspicion; unwelcome surprise
Lower half of page.
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- At police headquarters in Terrytown we find the champion of justice conferring with the chief of police.
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse (also as "The Masked Beauty"); The Claw; Terrytown chief of police (mouse); old seafaring mouse; various mice of Terrytown; Spike (cat, member of The Claw's gang); Slug (cat, member of The Claw's gang); Shanghai Jake (cat); many sailor mice attending the show at Shanghai Jake's; dopey-looking one-toothed cat (member of The Claw's gang); speedboat pilot (cat); cat cannoneers
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- The Claw has his spies obtain Mighty Mouse's autograph, which the villain uses to trick Mitzi into a trap. Once in captivity, Mitzi is forced to sing (as "The Masked Beauty") at Shanghai Jake's waterfront dive, packing in many love-starved sailor mice - who are dropped through a trap door and into the Claw Gang's hungry clutches.
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- art or lettering modification or omission; autograph; captives; heroics; notable coloring modification; sailors; singer; waterfront
Normally a brunette, Mitzi is a redhead in the original printing of the story - and is a "hybrid" of mouse-gray and red for this reprint.
Connie Rasinski's signature appears in the final panel of the original printing but is omitted for this reprint.
A reprint of the third appearance of Mighty Mouse's recurring villain The Claw.
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- Where are you going, fellows?
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Mrs. Rudy Rooster; three little chicks; game warden
- Synopsis
- Rudy excludes Dinky from the Rooster family picnic. A disappointed Dinky tries to help Rudy in various ways, in the hope that Rudy will change his mind. Will Dinky "kill Rudy with kindness", or just plain kill him?
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- art or lettering modification or omission; best of intentions; notable coloring modification; picnic; series of mishaps; unwanted help
Ordinarily colored black, Dinky is colored orange in the original printing of the story - and is colored gray for this reprint.
Art Bartsch's signature appears in the opening panel of the original printing but is omitted for this reprint.
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- Come on, Puddy, we're a goin' to blast that old tree stump.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Farmer Al Falfa; Puddy (frisky pup); school of swordfish; school of sharp-toothed fish; eel; sea turtle; barracuda; octopus; Davy Jones (skeleton)
- Synopsis
- When blasting a tree stump, Farmer Al Falfa finds a map to a treasure buried at sea... or does he?
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- dynamite; fish; octopus; sea or island setting; skeleton; story-adapted-from-a-cartoon; treasure; treasure map; tree stump
The lead character here is identified as "Farmer Al Falfa", when in most comics he is called "Farmer Gray". This reads very much like a cartoon adaption -- and perhaps it was, at least partially...
Merlin Haas points out that there was a 1936 Terrytoons cartoon titled "Sunken Treasures" (alternately known as "Down in the Deep" in its Castle Films "home-projection" film prints, prevalent throughout the years that preceded modern home video products) starring a character named "Puddy the Pup" - and it is the same character that appears in this story.
Puddy, with a human boy rather than Farmer Al Falfa, seeks the titular "Sunken Treasures" in a largely different story, but with a number of similar gag elements to this later comic book adaptation.
The connection would seem to be more than mere coincidence, right down to the almost matching titles "Sunken Treasures" (1936 cartoon) and "Sunken Treasure" (1954 comic book reprint - originally printed in 1951), as the Terrytoons comics published by St. John were largely produced by veterans of Paul Terry's animation studio.