{"api_url":"https://www.comics.org/api/issue/201998/?format=json","series_name":"Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (1955 series)","descriptor":"106","number":"106","volume":"1","variant_name":"","title":"","publication_date":"November 1959","key_date":"1959-11-00","price":"0.10 USD","page_count":"36.000","editing":"","indicia_publisher":"Harvey Publications Inc.","brand_emblem":"Harvey Comics [Stamp]","isbn":"","barcode":"","rating":"Approved by the Comics Code Authority","on_sale_date":"","indicia_frequency":"","notes":"All reprint issue. Interior comic content is all reprint.\r\n\r\nA \"circus\" theme runs through the entire issue, with the exception of the \"Tee Vee Serial\" and the \"Inky and Dinky\" story.","variant_of":null,"series":"https://www.comics.org/api/series/11629/?format=json","indicia_printer":"","keywords":"themed issue","story_set":[{"type":"cover","title":"Swingin' on Smoke Rings","feature":"Felix the Cat","sequence_number":0,"page_count":"1.000","script":"None","pencils":"Warren Kremer ?","inks":"Warren Kremer ?","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"","characters":"Felix the Cat; circus ringmaster","synopsis":"Felix performs a circus aerial act on a series of smoke rings.","notes":"New cover for an issue of reprints.\r\n\r\nCredits suggested by Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker.","keywords":"aerial act; circus setting; smoke rings"},{"type":"comic story","title":"A Game of Hoops","feature":"Felix the Cat","sequence_number":1,"page_count":"1.000","script":"?","pencils":"Otto Messmer","inks":"?","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"Zaccini's Trained Dogs","characters":"Felix the Cat; Zaccini (circus dog trainer); poodle; sailor; drowning guy","synopsis":"Felix wants to practice tricks in order to get a job with the circus, but gets in trouble when he interferes with a lifesaving attempt at the beach.","notes":"Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10639), 2016-08-26.\r\n\r\nAccording 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).\r\n\r\nIn a Messmer touch, while imagining himself taking bows as a circus performer, Felix \"doffs his ears\" from the top of his head, as if they were a hat.","keywords":"circus; getting carried away; jumping through hoops; life preserver"},{"type":"comic story","title":"The Big Top","feature":"Felix the Cat","sequence_number":2,"page_count":"5.000","script":"Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer ?","pencils":"Otto Messmer","inks":"?","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"We're having enough trouble without your bringing home a stray cat to feed!","characters":"Felix the Cat; Henry; Henry's wife; circus crowd; circus ringmaster; Leo (circus lion); man serving food to lion; man carrying manhole cover","synopsis":"Felix has been taken in by a jobless man named Henry, but when he helps himself to milk from the refrigerator Henry chases him out of the house and down the street, where their chase entertains the crowd waiting to get into a circus. This gets Henry a job as a clown, but Felix is rejected, and his efforts to get in as well only pay off when an injury gets him into the circus hospital.","notes":"Part One of Three. \r\n\r\nPencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10640), 2016-08-26.","keywords":"chase; circus setting; joblessness; lack-of-funds; lion"},{"type":"comic story","title":"Memory Jogger","feature":"Kitty","sequence_number":3,"page_count":"1.750","script":"Joe Oriolo ?; Otto Messmer ?","pencils":"Otto Messmer","inks":"?","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"Dear me! I know I made an appointment for this afternoon, but I can't remember what!","characters":"Kitty; various circus performers and animals; line of reducing salon women","synopsis":"Kitty hopes that something at the circus will remind her of what she was supposed to do; a conga line of elephants reminds her that she was going to the reducing salon.","notes":"Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10641), 2016-08-26.","keywords":"circus setting; forgetfulness"},{"type":"comic story","title":"Clowning Around","feature":"Felix the Cat","sequence_number":4,"page_count":"5.000","script":"Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer ?","pencils":"Joe Oriolo","inks":"Joe Oriolo","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"Ah! Circus life is the life!","characters":"Felix the Cat; Henry (now known as Clowno); circus ringmaster; various circus performers; circus cook; ring tailed baboon; seal; seal trainer; Katrina Katt","synopsis":"Henry's first performance as Clowno is a bomb until Felix runs out and joins him, but Clowno gets all the glory and Felix is left looking for food; when he does manage to get a fish he gives it to his new crush, tightrope walker Katrina Katt.","notes":"Part Two of Three.\r\n\r\nPencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10642), 2016-08-26.","keywords":"circus setting; clown; love-at-first-sight"},{"type":"comic story","title":"The Big Finale","feature":"Felix the Cat","sequence_number":5,"page_count":"5.000","script":"Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer ?","pencils":"Joe Oriolo","inks":"Joe Oriolo","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"Sigh! - My heart skips a beat every time I look at Katrina!","characters":"Felix the Cat; Katrina Katt; clown; circus ringmaster; elephant; Splasho (high diver); The Great Asbestos (fire eater); circus crowd; mouse","synopsis":"Felix's continued attempts to get a job with the circus and impress Katrina Katt ruin several of the acts, but the customers love it.","notes":"Part Three of Three.\r\n\r\nPencils credit from Michael Moore via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10643), 2016-08-26.","keywords":"circus setting; fire eater; high diver; impulsiveness; tight-wire walker; unrequited love; wreaking havoc"},{"type":"text story","title":"Sweet Revenge","feature":"Inky and Dinky","sequence_number":6,"page_count":"0.750","script":"?","pencils":"None","inks":"None","colors":"?","letters":"typeset","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"Inky and Dinky were as happy as two kittens ever were.","characters":"Inky; Dinky; Bully Bulldog","synopsis":"Bully tries to get Inky and Dinky's candy away from them, but his plan backfires.","notes":"A rare Inky and Dinky text story.","keywords":"best-laid-plans; candy; fighting; outsmarting one's-self"},{"type":"text story","title":"House Hunting","feature":"","sequence_number":7,"page_count":"0.750","script":"?","pencils":"None","inks":"None","colors":"?","letters":"typeset","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"\"Randolph! Randolph Rabbit!\" called Mrs. Rabbit loudly.","characters":"Randolph Rabbit; Mr. Rabbit; Mrs. Rabbit; Oliver Owl","synopsis":"Little Randolph Rabbit keeps wandering away, so his parents teach him a lesson by making him think they have disappeared along with their house.","notes":"","keywords":"forest setting; learning one's lesson; rabbits; there's-no-place-like-home; wandering away"},{"type":"comic story","title":"Abandoned Ship!","feature":"Felix the Cat Tee Vee Serial","sequence_number":8,"page_count":"2.000","script":"Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)","pencils":"Joe Oriolo","inks":"Joe Oriolo","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"Felix has stumbled on a strange box at the bottom of the sea.","characters":"Felix the Cat; Fish-Eyed Fred (sailor); nameless sailor; ship's cook; lion; leopard; elephant","synopsis":"Felix and a treasure chest are hauled on board a ship; the crew takes the treasure and deserts the ship, leaving it to Felix--and a cargo of wild animals.","notes":"Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10644), 2016-08-26.\r\n\r\nArt and coloring simulate a black-and-white television program. Continued from issue #105 and continued in issue #107.\r\n\r\nA 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.\r\n\r\nIn Messmer's original story the ship's cook was a Chinese stereotype, who spoke as one might expect. For this version the character is more suitably anglicized.","keywords":"redrawn story; reused story; sea or island setting; ship; tough predicament; treasure; wild animals"},{"type":"comic story","title":"Snow Fun","feature":"Inky and Dinky","sequence_number":9,"page_count":"3.000","script":"?","pencils":"Otto Messmer","inks":"?","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"anthropomorphic-funny animals","first_line":"C'mon, Inky! Let's take a sleigh ride down Dead Man's Bluff!","characters":"Inky; Dinky; general store proprietor","synopsis":"Dinky wants to sled down Dead Man's Bluff; Inky doesn't want to, but accidentally ends up on the sled with Dinky.  After a series of close calls, Inky falls off, and Dinky ends up in front of a general store stove, stuck inside a snowman.","notes":"Pencils credit from Michael Moore via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10645), 2016-08-26.","keywords":"general store; kids-at-play; sled; snowman; stove; wild ride; winter setting"}],"cover":"https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/183/w400/183429.jpg"}