(November 1956)

Harvey, 1955 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1956-09-13
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Harvey Publications Inc.
Brand
Harvey Comics [Stamp]
Editing
Leon Harvey (credited) (editor, vice president)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from regular feature, Big 'H' Kid News.

A "Star" theme runs through the entire issue, with the exception of the "Tee Vee Serial" and the "Kitty" story.

The Land of Luck (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Joe Oriolo
Inks
Joe Oriolo
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Felix the Cat; deer
Synopsis
Softhearted hunter Felix is disarmed by an affectionate deer.
Keywords
deer; hunting; soft heart

Indexer Notes

Original credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker.

[Star Lighter, Star Bright] (Table of Contents: 1)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Otto Messmer
Pencils
Otto Messmer
Inks
Otto Messmer
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
What a beautiful day!
Feature Logo
Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Felix the Cat; angry guy
Synopsis
A surly smoker asks Felix for a light.
Reprints
Keywords
matches; smoking; wrong-place-at-wrong-time

A Not So Lucky Day (Table of Contents: 2)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer
Pencils
Joe Oriolo
Inks
Joe Oriolo
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A four leaf clover! How lucky!
Feature Logo
Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Felix the Cat; goat; cop; fisherman; prospector; bear; lucky bystander; sweepstakes winner; telescope attendant
Synopsis
Felix has one occurrence of bad luck after another, while those around him have nothing but good fortune. To change his luck, Felix decides to search for his lucky star.
Reprints
Keywords
bad luck; frustration; good luck; lucky star; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

Part One of Three.

[If the Box Fits, Wear It!] (Table of Contents: 3)

Kitty / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Messmer
Pencils
Otto Messmer
Inks
Joe Oriolo ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Oh, dear! Three o'clock and it isn't here yet!
Feature Logo
Kitty
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Kitty; hat shop delivery man; high society lady
Synopsis
Kitty improvises a hat for a ritzy society gathering. There, she is asked by an upper-crust matron to design a new evening gown.
Reprints
Keywords
alternative uses; bass fiddle; dress fitting; enterprise; hat; high society; ingenuity; the-customer-is-always-right

The Land of Luck (Table of Contents: 4)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer
Pencils
Otto Messmer
Inks
Joe Oriolo ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I'll bet I can find my lucky star here!
Feature Logo
Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Felix the Cat; rocket testing crew; attendants of Felix's lucky star
Synopsis
Felix hitches a ride into space on a test rocket in order to find his lucky star. After some difficulties, he succeeds in being sprinkled with star dust and having his whiskers painfully stretched to act as luck antennae.
Reprints
Keywords
bad luck; fantasy setting; good luck; little dipper; lucky star; outer space setting; rocket ship; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

Part Two of Three.

Harvey Comics News (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Harvey Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

Munch Fun (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Curtiss Candy Company; Baby Ruth / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

The Acid Test (Table of Contents: 7)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer
Pencils
Joe Oriolo
Inks
Joe Oriolo
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Felix! Where did you come from?
Feature Logo
Felix the Cat [Harvey Comics logo]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Felix the Cat; Kitty; brick-throwing bully; fancy restaurant waiter; pedestrian; raffle official; two robbers; police officer; businessman; TV producer; TV make-up man; street robber; hungry bird
Synopsis
Felix returns to Earth, charmed by the powers of his lucky star. Things go very well for him until a TV make-up man dusts off his star dust and shaves his whiskers (as a matter of routine prep before Felix appears on a TV interview show), relieving the cat of his all-too-briefly possessed good luck.
Reprints
Keywords
bad luck; fame-is-fleeting; good luck; lucky star; overconfidence

Indexer Notes

Temporarily, at least, Felix must have been lucky beyond all luck when a TV producer approaches him with an absurdly high offer of money - the amount of which is expressed in a humorously odd fashion:

PRODUCER: "Wait! Station WNIX wants you to appear on their T.V. show "Public Heroes"! We'll pay A THOUSAND GRAND!"

Part Three of Three.

Teacher's Pet (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gladys Goldfish was the shyest creature at the bottom of the lake.
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Gladys Goldfish; blowfish; trout; boy; pet show judges
Synopsis
Gladys Goldfish is very shy and self-conscious, until she wins a blue ribbon at a pet show.
Reprints
Keywords
contest; goldfish; shyness

Indexer Notes

Reprinted from two issues prior.

Everybody Loves Dagwood (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Harvey Comics; Dagwood / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page (report information)

The Swimming Poodle (Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Peter Poodle sat himself down on the other side of the house where he couldn't see the swimming pool at all.
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Peter Poodle; Peter's master (boy); Billy (master's baby brother); boy's father
Synopsis
Peter Poodle is forbidden to jump into the family's swimming pool, until he rescues a baby from drowning.
Reprints
Keywords
dog; swimming pool; unlikely hero

Indexer Notes

Reprinted from two issues prior.

[Wildroot Cream-Oil gives you confidence! (Meeting the Parents)] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Wildroot Cream-Oil / advertisement / 0.25 page (report information)

[Out of the Frying Pan, Into the (Cannon) Fire!] (Table of Contents: 12)

Felix the Cat Tee Vee Serial / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)
Pencils
Joe Oriolo
Inks
Joe Oriolo
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Stung to fury when Felix gave him a hornet's nest in mistake for a cocoanut, a huge chimp dashes madly after Felix!
Feature Logo
Felix the Cat Tee Vee Serial
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Felix the Cat; angry chimp; shark; cannon-firing fish
Synopsis
Felix gets away from the angry chimp by rolling off the island and into the sea, inside the same artillery shell casing he used to escape the battleship in issue #74. He's forced to abandon his makeshift casing-boat when a hurricane approaches. Diving beneath the waves, Felix finds a sunken ship full of food - but must flee from a shark. He ducks into an old cannon, which is fired by a fish, and is blown back into the teeth of the gale - headed for who-knows-where.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art and coloring simulate a black-and-white television program. Continued from issue #76 and continued in issue #78.

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.

[Shooting at a Star] (Table of Contents: 13)

Inky and Dinky / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Messmer
Pencils
Otto Messmer
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Inky and Dinky! It's time for bed!
Feature Logo
Inky and Dinky
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Inky; Dinky; Kitty; neighbor; helicopter pilot
Synopsis
When Inky and Dinky wish upon a star and nothing happens, they decide to facilitate matters by shooting a handwritten note containing their wish to a star by bow and arrow. The arrow goes no further than a neighbor's open window and the seat of his pants. The neighbor good-naturedly conspires with Aunt Kitty to put a scare into the would-be star-archers.
Reprints
Keywords
be-careful-what-you-wish-for; bow and arrow; kids-at-play; star; wish

Indexer Notes

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).

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Land of Luck
    Felix the Cat
  2. 1. [Star Lighter, Star Bright]
    Felix the Cat
  3. 2. A Not So Lucky Day
    Felix the Cat
  4. 3. [If the Box Fits, Wear It!]
    Kitty
  5. 4. The Land of Luck
    Felix the Cat
  6. 5. Harvey Comics News
    Harvey Comics
  7. 6. Munch Fun
    Curtiss Candy Company; Baby Ruth
  8. 7. The Acid Test
    Felix the Cat
  9. 8. Teacher's Pet
  10. 9. Everybody Loves Dagwood
    Harvey Comics; Dagwood
  11. 10. The Swimming Poodle
  12. 11. [Wildroot Cream-Oil gives you confidence! (Meeting the Parents)]
    Wildroot Cream-Oil
  13. 12. [Out of the Frying Pan, Into the (Cannon) Fire!]
    Felix the Cat Tee Vee Serial
  14. 13. [Shooting at a Star]
    Inky and Dinky
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Steve Coates
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Jean-Francois Masse
  • Jim Stangas
  • Joe Torcivia
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Len Wolinsky