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- Otto Messmer
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- What nonsense! - Everyone knows there's no such thing as a giant!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat
- Synopsis
- Felix talks pretty brave about fighting giants, until he spies a huge pair of feet coming around a corner.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- be-careful-what-you-wish-for; exaggerating one’s importance; feet; giant; wrong impression
Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10667), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited both to "Joe Oriolo ?"
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)
- Pencils
- Joe Oriolo
- Inks
- Joe Oriolo
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly, am I bored!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; The Merry Midgets [Tic, Tac, and Toe]; giant
- Synopsis
- Bored with the cozy life of a housecat and craving adventure, Felix inadvertently summons the Merry Midgets (Tic, Tac, and Toe) who whisk him off to "Fableland" and an encounter with a giant.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- fantasy setting; giant; midgets; quest for excitement; redrawn story; reused story; size differential
A reworking of many of the elements of the lead story in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954) titled "Felix the Cat and the Merry Midgets", which was reformatted from the "Merry Midgets" continuity of Otto Messmer's original Felix newspaper strips of 1939.
Differing from Messmer's original story, the Merry Midgets (Tic, Tac, and Toe) speak here in rhyme, similar to Walt Disney's Bucky Bug and the Dell/Gold Key version of Beep Beep the Road Runner.
Part One of Three.
- Script
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- Otto Messmer
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- ?
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- ?
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gracious! - I haven't been to one of those places since I was a kitten!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Kitty; fun house barker; giant
- Synopsis
- Kitty bonks her head while in a carnival fun house and dreams she's entered a giant's castle.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- carnival; dream sequence; fun house; giant; size differential
Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10668), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credit both to "Joe Oriolo ?"
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).
The "dream giant" in this story (presumably drawn by Messmer) more closely resembles the giant of Messmer's original story than does Joe Oriolo's giant of our main story.
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)
- Pencils
- Joe Oriolo
- Inks
- Joe Oriolo
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Won't you join us three in this giant cup of tea?
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; The Merry Midgets [Tic, Tac, and Toe]; giant; Felix's mistress
- Synopsis
- While Felix's mistress looks for her missing cat, Felix and the Merry Midgets are captured by the giant.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- capture; escape; fantasy setting; giant; midgets; redrawn story; reused story; size differential
A reworking of many of the elements of the lead story in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954) titled "Felix the Cat and the Merry Midgets", which was reformatted from the "Merry Midgets" continuity of Otto Messmer's original Felix newspaper strips of 1939.
Part Two of Three.
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)
- Pencils
- Otto Messmer
- Inks
- Joe Oriolo ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How do you do? And just how good are things with you?
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; The Merry Midgets [Tic, Tac, and Toe]; giant; Felix's mistress
- Synopsis
- Felix and the Merry Midgets escape, thanks to the giant's pepper-induced super-sneezes. The midgets glide away atop playing cards (as seen in Messmer's original story) and Felix is sneeze-expelled from Fableland and blown back home through the mistress' living room hanging picture - which is ripped apart by the cat's reentry. Blaming Felix for the damage, the mistress throws him out leaving him homeless once again.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- capture; escape; fantasy setting; giant; midgets; redrawn story; reused story; size differential
A reworking of many of the elements of the lead story in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954) titled "Felix the Cat and the Merry Midgets", which was reformatted from the "Merry Midgets" continuity of Otto Messmer's original Felix newspaper strips of 1939.
Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10670), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited both to "Joe Oriolo ?" Inks might be Oriolo over Messmer's pencils.
Part Three of Three.
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- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All the barnyard folk knew that old Henrietta Hen was very nearsighted, but even so -- to make such a mistake!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Henrietta Hen; Henrietta's little ducklings; Teresa Turkey; Claudia Cow; Marrieta Mule
- Synopsis
- Nearsighted Henrietta Hen adopts a family of little ducklings, raising them as if they were her own. Complications ensue when the ducklings begin swimming.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adoption; ducklings; farm setting; frequently reprinted story; hen; swimming
This appears to be the earliest occurrence of this oft-reprinted text story of the printings indexed at GCD. Should an earlier printing be discovered, this note should be updated.
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
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- The citizens of Greenwood Valley were buzzing with excitement, for that day the animal community was getting a new citizen - And what's more, he was coming all the way from Africa!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Regina Rabbit; Franklin Fox; Horace Hippo; Sylvester Squirrel
- Synopsis
- In an early instance of what we would now call "fat-shaming", huge Horace Hippo arrives in Greenwood Valley and is ridiculed and scorned for his size by the smaller and more fleet-of-foot animals of the community -- until a great flood occurs and "big, fat, foolish-looking" Horace (as he's described in the story) proves his value as a rescuer.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- "fat-shaming"; community of animals; flood; forest setting; hippo; unlikely hero
This appears to be the earliest occurrence of this oft-reprinted text story of the printings indexed at GCD. Should an earlier printing be discovered, this note should be updated.
- Script
- Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)
- Pencils
- Joe Oriolo
- Inks
- Joe Oriolo
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Felix, aboard a Navy battleship finds himself being the boat's floor mat...
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; captain; admiral; various sailors; cannibals
- Synopsis
- Felix escapes the Navy battleship he unwittingly boarded by hiding in an empty artillery shell, which is fired off the ship. Unfortunately, the cat-containing shell lands Felix on an island of cannibals.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- artillery shell; battleship; cannibals; redrawn story; reused story; U.S.Navy
Art and coloring simulate a black-and-white television program. Continued from issue #73 and continued in issue #75.
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.
Good Double-Entendre: Felix is concerned for his safety aboard this floating instrument of war:
FELIX: "Golly! A cat's life isn't WORTH A DIME aboard a busy battleship like this!" ...This line is not in Messmer's original story.
- Script
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- Otto Messmer
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- Joe Oriolo ?
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- ?
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- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look Inky! It says here the moon is made of hydrogen, oxygen and other minerals!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Inky; Dinky; Kitty; two guys in gas masks
- Synopsis
- Inky and Dinky argue over the composition of the Moon, with each determined to prove himself right.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- argument; composition; gas masks; Moon; rocket ship; wrong impression
Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10671), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited both to "Joe Oriolo ?" Inks might be Oriolo over Messmer's pencils.
Breaks with the issue's overall theme of "giants".