Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat #113

(January 1961)

[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

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

What a beautiful day!

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #77 (November 1956)

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

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Joe Oriolo

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

A four leaf clover! How lucky!

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #77 (November 1956)

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 ?

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, dear! Three o'clock and it isn't here yet!

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #77 (November 1956)

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

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Joe Oriolo ?

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'll bet I can find my lucky star here!

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #77 (November 1956)

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.

The Acid Test (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer

Pencils

Joe Oriolo

Inks

Joe Oriolo

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #77 (November 1956)

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: 6)

text story / 0.75 page (report information)

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #75 (September 1956)

Keywords

contest; goldfish; shyness

The Swimming Poodle (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 0.75 page (report information)

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #75 (September 1956)

Keywords

dog; swimming pool; unlikely hero

[Out of the Frying Pan, Into the (Cannon) Fire!] (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

Joe Oriolo; Otto Messmer (original concept)

Pencils

Joe Oriolo

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Joe Oriolo

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Stung to fury when Felix gave him a hornet's nest in mistake for a cocoanut, a huge chimp dashes madly after Felix!

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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 #110. 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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #77 (November 1956)

Keywords

artillery shell; cannon; chimp; redrawn story; reused story; sea or island setting; shark; sunken ship

Indexer Notes

Art and coloring simulate a black-and-white television program. Continued from issue #112 and continued in issue #114.

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: 9)

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

Script

Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

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Inky and Dinky! It's time for bed!

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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

• from Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat (Harvey, 1955 series) #77 (November 1956)

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).