Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #51 [Child Life Shoes]

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Felix the Cat / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'll try out my new all-steel rod and reel!

Feature Logo

Felix the Cat [Dell Comics logo – slanted block letters with the “L” leaning left]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; shoe store salesman; department store floorwalker; postman; Skidoo the Mouse; flock of crows; farmer; carnival barker; boxing champ; boxing contender; boxing broadcaster; two police officers

Synopsis

Felix harnesses the power of lightning.

Keywords

boxing; electromagnet; fishing; ingenuity; lightning; woodchopping

Indexer Notes

Story starts on inside front cover.

A reworking by Messmer of several of the elements of his earlier "Ohm Sweet Ohm", an original Felix newspaper strip continuity of 1928. The original Messmer strip continuity is reproduced in the book "Nine Lives to Live a Classic Felix Celebration by Otto Messmer" (1996, Fantagraphics Books), edited by Felix historian David Gerstein.

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.75 page (report information)

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Felix is hunting for the three monkeys who wandered away.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat

Keywords

hidden picture puzzle

Indexer Notes

Find the hidden monkeys in a picture of a tree.

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.25 page (report information)

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Felix wants to make these designs without taking his pencil off the paper.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat

Keywords

drawing game

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.75 page (report information)

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Felix wants to find his way through to the chimney.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat

Keywords

maze puzzle

Indexer Notes

Lead Felix through a maze of pipes and out of a chimney.

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.25 page (report information)

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Can you separate the fishes from each other by drawing three straight lines?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Flub the Pup

Keywords

drawing game

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.75 page (report information)

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Draw a line through the maze which will bring the little girl to the flowers

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dolly

Keywords

maze puzzle

Indexer Notes

Lead Dolly through a maze and to a bunch of flowers.

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.25 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

It does not take a long time to find out for whom Felix is hunting.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat

Keywords

connect the dots

Indexer Notes

Connect the dots to reveal Felix's quarry.

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

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Draw a pencil line through the dots in the order of their numbers, starting with no 1, and you will meet a new friend.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat

Keywords

connect the dots

Indexer Notes

Connect the dots to reveal Felix's new friend.

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Felix the Cat / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

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The word Felix is hidden in the little picture on the left. Can you find all the letters of this word?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat

Keywords

word puzzle

Indexer Notes

Find the hidden name of Felix within a picture of lines. Shares space with the solutions to the puzzles in this issue.

[Pointer Flub Needs Some Pointers!] (Table of Contents: 10)

Felix the Cat / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script

Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; Flub the Pup

Synopsis

Hunter Felix finds Flub the Pup pointing at an unconventional (but literal) target.

Keywords

dog; hunting; pointer; repurposed art; target

Indexer Notes

Back cover displays two strips of Felix art across its width. The strips, which tell the "pointer gag" in two pantomime illustrations, are each 2 inches high, and are placed at the very top and the very bottom of the back cover.

The story and art for the gag are presumably repurposed from a Felix the Cat Dell comic book, or from Otto Messmer's newspaper comic strip. The remaining back cover space in the center is left blank to contain the name and logo of the business using the comic as a promotional item.