Four Color
#46 - Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle
(June 1944)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1944
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title: Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle, No. 46.
Copyright, 1931, 1939, 1940, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Copyright, 1931, 1939, 1940, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Just a Little Squirt
Felix the Cat / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Otto Messmer ?
- Pencils
- Otto Messmer
- Inks
- Otto Messmer
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Otto Messmer
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; Skidoo the Mouse
- Synopsis
- Skidoo routs Felix using a garden hose.
- Reprints
- from Felix the Cat newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
- Keywords
- cat; chase; hose; mouse; newspaper strip reprint; unwelcome surprise; water
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover in black, white and red.
Pencils and inks credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999.
Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle
Felix the Cat / comic story / 48 pages
- Script
- Otto Messmer ?
- Pencils
- Otto Messmer
- Inks
- Otto Messmer
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Otto Messmer
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, Sir!! The Fairyland Ball is tonight -- and I have no dress!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; Little Betty Blue; Little Betty Blue's wicked stepmother; Cinderella; Little Bo Peep; Red Riding Hood; Magic Midgets; Beanstalk Jack; Bruto; shoe-shine boy; Simple Simon; family of ghosts
- Synopsis
- In Fairyland, Felix helps "Little Betty Blue" attend the Fairyland Ball, thwarts the efforts of Betty's wicked stepmother, meets a group of four "Magical Midgets", evades "Bruto", the wicked stepmother's executioner, and finally helps a poor shoe-shine boy, when the larger "Simple Simon" muscles in on his territory.
However, a larger part of the story takes place in the titular "Haunted Castle" where Felix must escape from a family of ghosts who have pressed him into service as both a pet and a slave. - Reprints
- from Felix the Cat newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
- Keywords
- abounding oddities; comic absurdity; fairy tales; ghosts; haunted castle; newspaper strip reprint; strange land
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999.
This story is a long romp of non-sequiturs that never gets dull.
Felix Has Spring Fever
Felix the Cat / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Otto Messmer ?
- Pencils
- Otto Messmer
- Inks
- Otto Messmer
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Otto Messmer
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ho-hum! Gosh! I feel so sleepy!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; cow; pig; chicken; anthropomorphic trees; Skidoo the Mouse; gang of other mice
- Synopsis
- On a nice spring day, Felix gets sleepy and wakes up hungry.
- Reprints
- from Felix the Cat newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
- Keywords
- cat; hunger; mouse; newspaper strip reprint; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; sleep; spring
Indexer Notes
Story is on inside back cover and back cover. Inside back cover is in black, white and red.
Pencils and inks credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle
Felix the Cat -
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Just a Little Squirt
Felix the Cat -
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Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle
Felix the Cat -
3.
Felix Has Spring Fever
Felix the Cat
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Tony R. Rose
- Joe Torcivia
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