Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #42

(June 1953)

Terrific Value! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

40 Airplanes / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Dart Men of the Moon (Table of Contents: 2)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

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Remember men, you're guarding our super secret fuel!

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo with Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Professor Edam; Mitzi Mouse; The Claw; Professor Ohm; Butch (cat-thug); Greasepaint (mouse traitor and master of disguise); various members of The Claw's gang; mouse sentries at rocket base; various mouse astronauts; various Dart Men (aka Arrowheads); Dartface the 14th (ruler of the Dart Men)

Synopsis

A space force of mouse astronauts, headed by Professor Edam and Mighty Mouse, is bound for the (then) planet Pluto. The Claw’s agents, including a traitorous mouse posing as Professor Edam, sabotage the rocket fleet so that it will barely reach the moon before running out of power. Waiting for them on the moon is villainous Professor Ohm, who has formed a secret alliance with a tribe of “dart men” to attack and overcome the mice upon landing.

Reprints

• in Mighty Mouse (Magazine Management, 1953 series) #24 ([May 1954])
• in Mighty Mouse (Western, 1964 series) #163 (April 1965)

Keywords

aliens; heroics; outer space setting; sabotage; space mission; the moon

Rooster Stopper (Table of Contents: 3)

Dinky / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Howdy, podner! Do you want to see my new type cowboy hat?

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Dinky (Duck) St. John Logo with character

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster

Synopsis

Dinky's new type of cowboy hat foils Rudy's prank on him.

Keywords

best-laid-plans; cowboy hat; duck; farm setting; lever and fulcrum; mallet; pranks; rooster

The Trap (Table of Contents: 4)

Farmer Alfalfa / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Someone's been stealing my corn! Know anything about it, Rudy?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Farmer Alfalfa; Rudy Rooster

Synopsis

Rudy's flimsy trap for a corn thief, catches the thief... Rudy, himself!

Keywords

best-laid-plans; caught-in-the-act; corn; farm setting; outsmarting one’s-self; theft; trap

Indexer Notes

In St. John comics books, Farmer Alfalfa was more often known as "Farmer Gray".

Undesirable Character (Table of Contents: 5)

Little Roquefort / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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What's that contrivance, may I ask?

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Little Roquefort [St. John logo with character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Little Roquefort; Percy Puss

Synopsis

Percy is ejected from the house by his own giant slingshot.

Reprints

• in Mighty Mouse (Western, 1964 series) #164 (July 1965)

Keywords

best-laid-plans; cat; mouse; slingshot; turning the tables

Suit Looted (Table of Contents: 6)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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I like to see everyone looking happy!

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo with Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; picnicking mice; gang of three cats; citizens of Mouseville (mice); crowd of other cats

Synopsis

Mighty Mouse's suit is stolen by a cat who thinks it's the source of his powers. Silly cat.

Reprints

• in Mighty Mouse (Western, 1964 series) #162 (January 1965)

Keywords

cats; costume; heroics; mice; powers; wrong impression

By Gum (Table of Contents: 7)

Little Roquefort / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Hey! Must be insects!

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Little Roquefort [St. John logo with character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Little Roquefort; Percy Puss

Synopsis

Percy Puss stops up Little Roquefort's pea shooter with a wad of gum.

Keywords

cat; gum; mouse; outsmarting one’s-self; pea shooter

All Aboard (Table of Contents: 8)

Dinky / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Hey, kids - lookit at what I built!

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Dinky (Duck) St. John Logo with character

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Rudy's two chicks; Willie the Weasel

Synopsis

Dinky builds a train out of two old apple boxes and some wheels. Not to be outdone, Rudy builds a monorail train out of his old bicycle, two wooden barrels, and other odds-and-ends. Before Rudy's two chicks can take a ride, Willie the Weasel takes over the monorail - and is sorry he did.

Keywords

chicks; duck; farm setting; monorail; rooster; train; weasel

Episode 2643 ½ Terror on the Tracks (Table of Contents: 9)

Mighty Mouse; Mighty Mouse The Perils of Pearl Pureheart / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Poor innocent Pearl Pureheart is in a desperate situation tied to the horns of a mad bull ---

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Mighty Mouse The Perils of Pearl Pureheart [St. John Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; Pearl's father; bull

Synopsis

Oil Can Harry lets loose a mad bull, and releases a roundhouse-full of roaring locomotives, to imperil Pearl Pureheart and Mighty Mouse.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #13 (October 1949)

Keywords

bull; football plays; locomotives; peril; rescue; striking oil

Indexer Notes

Not only does Mighty Mouse “throw the bull”, and prove to be “more powerful than locomotives”, he also quotes from his (future?) TV theme song. Page 4, panel 3 he says: “It won’t be long before I have the situation well in hand.” From the Mighty Mouse theme song: “…On the sea or on the land, he has the situation well in hand.”

Magic Dutch Rock Garden (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Magic Dutch Rock Garden / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

All Washed Up (Table of Contents: 11)

Gandy Goose / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Now get busy and wash the elephants or no free tickets.

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Gandy Goose [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; circus boss; elephant; bearded lady; clown

Synopsis

Gandy ineptly washes a circus elephant, getting himself and Sourpuss fired.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #13 (October 1949)

Keywords

circus setting; elephant; free tickets

The Reckless Rabbit (Table of Contents: 12)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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While a group of young rabbits are at play, one stands idly watching.

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Rollo (the “reckless rabbit”); other boy-rabbits; Rollo’s mother; hungry eagle; three more eagles

Synopsis

Headstrong young rabbit Rollo eschews baseball with friends in favor of building his own plane and “flying to the moon”. He also doesn’t believe in Mighty Mouse, until danger fills the skies in the form of a fierce windstorm and a flock of hungry eagles. His belief system changes rapidly.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #13 (October 1949)

Keywords

eagles; home-made airplane; rabbits; reckless behavior; storm

Cat Disposal (Table of Contents: 13)

Little Mitzi / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Yes, Mighty Mouse, I received the book you sent me.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Mitzi Mouse; The Claw

Synopsis

Mitzi doesn’t need Mighty Mouse to save the day, thanks to a book he sent her.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #13 (October 1949)

Keywords

book; unexpected intrusion

Hectic Honeymoon (Table of Contents: 14)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 7.5 pages (report information)

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Gosh, Honey, married at last!

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

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Mighty Mouse; Mr. and Mrs. Mouse (bride and groom honeymooning mice); elephants; various zoo animals; zoo keeper; police; firefighters; army; navy; gorilla; various townspeople terrified by escaped zoo animals; Mr. and Mrs. Mouse and their “millions and millions of descendants” (in flash-forward)

Synopsis

Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Mouse unknowingly choose the elephant house at the zoo as their honeymoon home. The expected scared elephants set into motion a delightfully insane chain of events that can only be righted by Mighty Mouse.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #13 (October 1949)

Keywords

elephants; escalating events; gorilla; home-seeking; newlyweds; wreaking havoc; zoo animals

Slinky (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Slinky / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page (report information)

The Gold Brick (Table of Contents: 16)

Gandy Goose / text story / 2 pages (report information)

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"I've got it," cried Gandy, as he burst into Sourpuss's room.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss

Synopsis

Sourpuss is skeptical about Gandy’s chances for success on a radio quiz show, until he learns the show is called “It Pays to be Dumb!”

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #13 (October 1949)

Keywords

prizes; quiz show; reversal of fortunes

Tricky Business (Table of Contents: 17)

Gandy Goose / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Hey, Gandy! What have you got there?

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Gandy Goose [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; magic rabbits

Synopsis

Gandy runs an errand for a magic shop, and asks Sourpuss to mind the shop while he’s gone. Gandy requests that his pal not touch anything until he gets back. Sourpuss, alas, cannot resist temptation.

Reprints

• from Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1947 series) #13 (October 1949)

Keywords

card tricks; disappearing-trick; magic; magic hat; rabbits; sawing-in-half-trick; wreaking havoc

Jungle Terror (Table of Contents: 18)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

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Chapter I – Many savage beasts lurk in the deep jungles of darkest Africa and it would be a sad life indeed for the smaller creatures if they did not have a dauntless defender constantly patrolling the jungle paths...

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo with Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Bonzo (elephant); python; deer; alligator; pigmy with blow-gun; two hungry tigers; pigmy tribe; The Desert Gang (army of large talking gorillas) three hungry lions; goat; camels; two little rabbits, hungry fox

Synopsis

Mighty Mouse protects the smaller creatures of the jungle from larger predators and thwarts the aggressive alliance of hostile pigmies and the Desert Gang, an invading army of large talking gorillas.

Reprints

• in Mighty Mouse (Western, 1964 series) #164 (July 1965)

Keywords

boiling lake; desert setting; evolved gorillas; heroics; jungle animals; jungle setting; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; pigmies; rope bridge; title or logo modification

Indexer Notes

Nice touch: Mighty Mouse suspects a habitually hungry alligator of small animal ingestion. When he questions the gator, it feigns innocence with a “symbolic halo” over his satisfactorily-smiling head. But Mighty Mouse props open the creature’s gaping jaws… and, in reverse order, out come running a rabbit, monkey, jungle bird, deer, and zebra! The zebra, pictured as “first-out”, is largely cut-off by the panel border indicating the possibility of still more animals ahead of it, fleeing the alligator’s innards.

Denizens of the Deep (Table of Contents: 19)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

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Whatta sock! He lasted twenty seconds!

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo with Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Kayo Katt; Mitzi Mouse; Mitzi's grandpa; The Claw; Professor Ohm; Professor Edam; boxing promoter (cat); five challenger mice; sailor cat; gunner cat; sharks

Synopsis

A boxing promotion stunt orchestrated by The Claw and Professor Ohm temporarily sidelines Mighty Mouse, giving the evil cats the opportunity to steal a map from Professor Edam showing the location of vast underwater deposits of uranium. Mighty Mouse takes off after The Claw's gunboat, but the cats have a few surprises in store for our hero.

Reprints

• in Mighty Mouse Adventure Stories (St. John, 1953 series) #[nn] (1953) [Mighty Mouse Adventure Stories was probably a rebinding of unsold comics.]
• in Mighty Mouse (Western, 1964 series) #162 (January 1965)
• in Mighty Mouse Jumbo Edition (Magazine Management, 1974 ? series) #44187 ([1974] ?)
• For the Western (Gold Key) reprint in Mighty Mouse #162, the first six pages of this story are eliminated, editing out the boxing promotion and the theft of Professor Edam's map - the latter of which is referenced in an added opening caption box. The edited reprint is retitled "Danger in the Ocean Depths".

Keywords

anti-aircraft guns; boat; boxing; carnival; heroics; map; sharks; theft; torpedo; undersea setting; uranium

Given-Given (Table of Contents: 20) (Expand) /

Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

An Amazing New Plan! Make Friends... Make Money! (Table of Contents: 21) (Expand) /

Harford Frocks / advertisement / 1 page (report information)