Four Color
#1132 - Walter Lantz Space Mouse
(August-October 1960)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-07-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Walter Lantz SPACE MOUSE, No. 1132." Code number is SPACE MOUSE O.S. #1132-606. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Space Mouse / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Carey
- Inks
- John Carey
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse
- Keywords
- artificial satellites
The Kickback
Space Mouse / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse
- Synopsis
- Space Mouse gets some faulty advice on how to start a balky space ship.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Secret Weapon
Space Mouse / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse; King Size; Count de Penny; Black Tom; Persian Pearl
- Synopsis
- Space Mouse, disguised as a Siamese cat, goes undercover on the planet Felinia to spy on Black Tom, the leader of the Meow Meows.
Indexer Notes
Space Mouse speaks in beatnik slang. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Frightful Weapon
Space Mouse / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse; King Size
- Synopsis
- Sky Raiders kidnap Rodney, the King's nephew, and hold him for ransom on Asteroid 28.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Nothing But the Tooth
Sam 'n' Simian / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; jungle
- Characters
- Sam; Simian
- Synopsis
- Sam and Simian open a dentist's office and have to pull a lion's tooth.
- Reprints
-
in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #16 (March 1971) [Original printing of this story was seven pages. This version had been reformatted to nine pages to fit the digest format.]
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Planetary Pirates
Space Mouse / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse; Vermin Brothers (villains)
- Synopsis
- After Space Mouse stops on an asteroid to help a disabled rocket ship, his Lunar Schooner is hijacked by a pair of rats, the Vermin Brothers. He tracks them to the planet Goofoffus, home of the laziest people in the universe.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Weather Wise
Space Mouse / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse; King Size
- Synopsis
- King Size gets a full weather report before flying his kite.
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents".
Target Darters
Space Mouse / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse
- Synopsis
- Space Mouse leads his space rangers in target practice.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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Space Mouse -
1.
The Kickback
Space Mouse -
2.
The Secret Weapon
Space Mouse -
3.
The Frightful Weapon
Space Mouse -
4.
Nothing But the Tooth
Sam 'n' Simian -
5.
Planetary Pirates
Space Mouse -
6.
Weather Wise
Space Mouse -
7.
Target Darters
Space Mouse -
8.
The Hot Seat
Space Mouse
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
- Tanya Schuehle
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