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- Otto Messmer
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- Zaccini's Trained Dogs
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- circus; getting carried away; jumping through hoops; life preserver
Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10639), 2016-08-26.
According 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).
In 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.
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer ?
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- Otto Messmer
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- We're having enough trouble without your bringing home a stray cat to feed!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- chase; circus setting; joblessness; lack-of-funds; lion
Part One of Three.
Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10640), 2016-08-26.
- Script
- Joe Oriolo ?; Otto Messmer ?
- Pencils
- Otto Messmer
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- ?
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear me! I know I made an appointment for this afternoon, but I can't remember what!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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 line of elephants reminds her that she was going to the reducing salon.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- circus setting; forgetfulness
Shares page two with the Statement of Ownership.
Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10641), 2016-08-26.
- Script
- Robert Harvey (business manager)
- Letters
- typeset
- Keywords
- government reporting; regulations
Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1955. No circulation figures appear as part of this report. Occupies the bottom 1/4 of page two of the "Kitty" story.
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer ?
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- Joe Oriolo
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- Joe Oriolo
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- Ah! Circus life is the life!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- circus setting; clown; love-at-first-sight
Part Two of Three.
Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10642), 2016-08-26.
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer ?
- Pencils
- Joe Oriolo
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- Joe Oriolo
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- Sigh! - My heart skips a beat every time I look at Katrina!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- circus setting; fire eater; high diver; impulsiveness; tight-wire walker; unrequited love; wreaking havoc
Part Three of Three.
Pencils credit from Michael Moore via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10643), 2016-08-26.
- Script
- ?
- Colors
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- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Inky and Dinky were as happy as two kittens ever were.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Inky; Dinky; Bully Bulldog
- Synopsis
- Bully tries to get Inky and Dinky's candy away from them, but his plan backfires.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- best-laid-plans; candy; fighting; outsmarting one’s-self
A rare Inky and Dinky text story.
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- typeset
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- "Randolph! Randolph Rabbit!" called Mrs. Rabbit loudly.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- forest setting; learning one’s lesson; rabbits; there’s-no-place-like-home; wandering away
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)
- Pencils
- Joe Oriolo
- Inks
- Joe Oriolo
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Felix has stumbled on a strange box at the bottom of the sea.
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- redrawn story; reused story; sea or island setting; ship; tough predicament; treasure; wild animals
Pencils credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10644), 2016-08-26.
Art and coloring simulate a black-and-white television program. Continued from issue #69 and continued in issue #71.
A 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.
In 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.
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- Otto Messmer
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- C'mon, Inky! Let's take a sleigh ride down Dead Man's Bluff!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- general store; kids-at-play; sled; snowman; stove; wild ride; winter setting
Pencils credit from Michael Moore via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10645), 2016-08-26.