(September 1951)
St. John,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1951
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- St. John Publishing Co.
- Editing
- Tom Morrison (editor)
[Wrestling with a Problem]
Gandy Goose / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eureka! I've discovered a new wrestling hold that'll make me unbeatable!
- Feature Logo
Gandy Goose [St. John Logo without Character]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
- Synopsis
- Gandy finds a way to escape Sourpuss’ unbeatable wrestling hold.
- Keywords
- bragging; know-it-all; unwelcome surprise; wrestling
Indexer Notes
Black and white on inside front cover.
A Battle Royal
Mighty Mouse / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Riot call – all cars – fire department – crash trucks!
- Feature Logo
Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Mouse; mad scientist (death); cave-man creatures; Professor Timmins (museum curator); farmer; cow; various anthropormorphic police, fire fighters, and civilians
- Synopsis
- A goony mad scientist revives a series of fossilized caveman creatures, who go on a rampage. Mighty Mouse punches them back into chunks of stone, to be used to “pave all the main streets in town”.
- Reprints
-
in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #57 (November 1954)
-
- Keywords
- caveman; heroics; mad scientist; science-out-of-control
Indexer Notes
Jim Tyer credit supplied to indexer by animation historian and author Thad Komorowski.
[Watch Fishing]
Gandy Goose / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, Sourpuss, how do you like my new method of fishing?
- Feature Logo
- Gandy Goose [St. John Logo without Character]
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
- Synopsis
- Gandy confounds Sourpuss with a new fishing method.
- Reprints
- in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #57 (November 1954)
-
- Keywords
- club; doing-something-their-own-way; fishing; lump-on-head; watch
[Discount Mind Reading]
Sourpuss / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How much to read my mind?
- Feature Logo
Sourpuss [St. John Logo]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
- Synopsis
- Mind-reader Gandy offers Sourpuss a reduced rate.
- Reprints
- in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #57 (November 1954)
-
- Keywords
- crystal ball; mind-reading; sorry-you-asked
[Imperiled by Jungle Animals]
Mighty Mouse The Perils of Pearl Pureheart / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In our last episode, Pearl Pureheart had been rescued by Mighty Mouse after a terrific battle.
- Feature Logo
Mighty Mouse The Perils of Pearl Pureheart [St. John Logo 1]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; Trader Korn; various jungle animals; express company delivery man; wild cat cannibals
- Synopsis
- Oil Can Harry unleashes a pack of wild jungle animals on Mighty Mouse.
- Reprints
- in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #57 (November 1954)
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- Keywords
- comic absurdity; heroics; jungle animals
Indexer Notes
Jim Tyer credit supplied to indexer by animation historian and author Thad Komorowski.
Much Ado About Nothing
Dinky / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly, Mr. Rudy has certainly become superstitious!
- Feature Logo
Dinky [Duck] [St. John logo without character]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Dinky (duck); Mr. Rudy (rooster); hens; hawk
- Synopsis
- Is Dinky a bad-luck duck? Mr. Rudy thinks so.
- Reprints
- in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #57 (November 1954)
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- Keywords
- bad luck; barnyard; superstition; wrong impression
Indexer Notes
Dinky’s feathers are black in this story, to allow Mr. Rudy to make a connection between Dinky and the bad-luck of black cats, etc. In many other comic book stories, Dinky’s feathers are grey.
A Mouse in the House
Farmer Gray / text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Well," said the cat, yawning and stretching, "Since I have nothing else to do, I guess I'll just read the Farmer's Newspaper."
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Farmer Gray; Little Roquefort (mouse); Whiskers (cat)
- Synopsis
- Whiskers needs a mouse to keep his job as a mouse-catcher.
- Reprints
- in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #57 (November 1954), #57 (November 1954)
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- Keywords
- cat; farmer; mouse; newspaper want ad
Helping Mama
Terry Bears / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's that, Mama?
- Feature Logo
Terry Bears [St. John logo as "Weather Bears"]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Weather Bears (aka "The Terry Bears"); Mama; Papa
- Synopsis
- The little bears simultaneously help Mama, and injure Papa.
- Keywords
- best of intentions; plaster; pratfall; rope; scaffold
Indexer Notes
Early on, the characters that would be known as "The Terry Bears", were called "The Weather Bears".
The Candy Cottage
Mighty Mouse / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Connie Rasinski (signed as CR)
- Inks
- Connie Rasinski (signed as CR)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once upon a time, in the days of witches and fairies, there lived a poor old woodchopper and his family.
- Feature Logo
- Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Mouse; Hansel and Gretel-like mice; Papa and Mama mice; evil witch; broom-riding cats
- Synopsis
- The story of Hansel and Gretel with Mighty Mouse added to save the day.
- Reprints
- in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #57 (November 1954)
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- Keywords
- broom; candy house; cannon; cat; fairy tale; Hansel and Gretel; heroics; magic axe; stew pot; vacuum cleaner; witch
Indexer Notes
Initials "CR" on last page, indicating artist Connie Rasinski. While the other two Mighty Mouse stories in this issue are off-the-wall-crazy, as one might expect from Jim Tyer, this story plays the Hansel and Gretel narrative fairly straight, as opposed to the type of “fairy tale parody” often found in cartoons and comics.
The Moose Call
Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, chum, I found a whistle but it doesn’t work.
- Feature Logo
Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo without characters]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit
- Synopsis
- Heckle and Jeckle pawn a worthless silent whistle off on Dimwit as a moose call.
- Keywords
- buyer beware; con-job; whistle
Indexer Notes
Black and white on inside back cover.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[The Tortoise and the Hare… and the Mouse]
Mighty Mouse -
1.
[Wrestling with a Problem]
Gandy Goose -
2.
A Battle Royal
Mighty Mouse -
3.
[Watch Fishing]
Gandy Goose -
4.
[Discount Mind Reading]
Sourpuss -
5.
[Imperiled by Jungle Animals]
Mighty Mouse The Perils of Pearl Pureheart -
6.
Much Ado About Nothing
Dinky -
7.
A Mouse in the House
Farmer Gray -
8.
Helping Mama
Terry Bears -
9.
The Candy Cottage
Mighty Mouse -
10.
The Moose Call
Heckle and Jeckle -
11.
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- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Joe Torcivia
- Len Wolinsky
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