Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #58

(December 1954)

Complete Baffling Magic Outfit 20 First Class Illusions (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Honor House Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Wayward Mouse (Table of Contents: 2)

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

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The mailman just brought it!

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; three comic-reading little mice; bad little mouse; farmer; cow; crows; truck driver; junkman; junkman's horse; four hungry cats

Synopsis

As three good little mice thrill to the exploits of their hero in "Mighty Mouse Comics", a "bad little mouse" (He MUST be bad, because he wears a derby!), who doesn't believe in Mighty Mouse sets out to make trouble. But even a tough mouse can bite off more trouble than he can chew (...or gnaw).

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• from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #29 (November 1951)

Keywords

comic books; juvenile delinquent; kids-at-mischief; learning one’s lesson; meta humor; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal

Indexer Notes

Meta Moment: Mice are reading a copy of Mighty Mouse Comics within a story in Mighty Mouse Comics.

[The Day Mighty Mouse Went Mighty Bad!] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

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A blight has hit Terrytown. The people struggle with an unknown source of annoyance.

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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; various citizens of Terrytown; various police of Terrytown

Synopsis

Oil Can Harry frames Mighty Mouse for a series of pranks and misdeeds against the citizens of Terrytown, proving his "guilt" to the exceedingly fickle crowd (that alternately cheers him or wants him hanged with incredibly rapid shifts of mood) using a poorly fashioned Mighty Mouse inflatable balloon. Can Pearl Pureheart turn (and keep) the tide of public opinion firmly "for" our hero?

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• from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #29 (November 1951)

Keywords

balloon doppelganger; comic absurdity; fame-is-fleeting; frame-up; hanging; pranks; rapidly shifting sentiments; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

The Tyer Touch: Oil Can Harry takes great delight in Mighty Mouse's misfortune. CAPTION: "...and Oil Can Harry died laughing." One panel Harry is overcome with laughter, the next he is laid out on the ground holding a flower at his chest! For good measure, Tyer goes to this gag twice.

Pearl Pureheart saves Mighty Mouse from hanging at the last moment, by presenting the Mighty Mouse balloon as proof of his innocence. She addresses the hangman: "Unhand him, you old goat! The Mighty Mouse that you saw was a fake!" ...And, sure enough, the hangman character is "an old (anthropomorphic) goat"!

Bear Prepared (Table of Contents: 4)

Terry Bears / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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-- And, in case of emergency, all good scouts should be prepared.

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Terry Bears [St. John logo with characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Terry Bears; Papa; Mama

Synopsis

The boys practice their scouting first aid techniques on poor Papa!

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• from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #29 (November 1951)

Keywords

best of intentions; first aid

The Hot Spell (Table of Contents: 5)

Mighty Mouse / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Let's go up on top of the mountain! The berries are bigger up there!

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; two berry-picking boys; volunteer fire department; army of volcano men; citizens of Terrytown

Synopsis

Mighty Mouse turns back an invasion of red-hot volcano men.

Reprints

• from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #29 (November 1951)

Keywords

comic absurdity; fire; invasion; lake; volcano; volcano men

Indexer Notes

The Tyer Touch: Jim Tyer gives us a band of hapless volunteer firefighters, who turn and run at the first sight of the volcano men. They head for a boat, that they sail to the middle of the lake - AND STOP, remaining becalmed and inactive as the volcano men begin to boil the lake. "What's delaying Mighty Mouse? This water is getting warmer and warmer!"

They despondently await a fate that they could easily have walked (or sailed, or swam) away from while the lake was merely warming ("All is lost! The water is BEGINNING TO BOIL!"), instead wishing for ice cream sodas, and preparing a gigantic, outsized "Last Will and Testament" from within their motionless boat. Tyer's drawings of these characters as gooney and very tightly pressed together (as if they were one) complements the absurdity.

ERROR OR ON-PURPOSE GAG?: Two consecutive panels of the fight between Mighty Mouse and the volcano men offer the captions "A LEFT to a blazing jaw" and "A RIGHT to a fiery solar plexus", but Tyer draws Mighty Mouse hitting the volcano men with the SAME fist (his left). With Tyer, it could be either an error... or a purposeful gag.

Here's How We Got Lionel Trains (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Lionel Trains / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[The Loaded Cabbage] (Table of Contents: 7)

Farmer Gray / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Farmer Gray, may I have a cabbage like you promised me?

Genre

humor

Characters

Farmer Gray; gopher

Synopsis

Farmer Gray plants a firecracker in a cabbage to rid himself of a gopher.

Reprints

• from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #29 (November 1951)

Keywords

best-laid-plans; cabbage; farm setting; firecracker; gopher

Diver Dimwit (Table of Contents: 8)

Heckle and Jeckle / text story / 2 pages (report information)

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"I say, old axe-beak, let us be off to the show spots about town!" suggested Jeckle to his magpie pal as they lounged in their living room.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

Synopsis

With visions of a huge reward, Heckle and Jeckle talk Dimwit into diving to the bottom of Terrytown Bay to search for a rich lady's lost pearl necklace.

Reprints

• from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #29 (November 1951)

Keywords

diving; necklace; reward

Back to the Soil (Table of Contents: 9)

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

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High up in the hills overlooking a peaceful valley, lived Mister Brown in his humble cottage.

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Mighty Mouse [St. John Logo without Character]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Mr. Brown; Mrs. Brown; the Brown's two children; Mr. Flint; Mr. Flint's two thugs; Farmer Tom and family

Synopsis

Mr. Brown is proud of his humble family farm, and refuses to sell when rich man Mr. Flint demands. Flint resorts to arson and kidnapping as methods of persuasion - Mighty Mouse will have none of that.

Reprints

• from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #29 (November 1951)

Keywords

arson; developer; farm setting; farmer; heroics; intimidation; kidnapping

Hey Kids!! Send for the New Howdy Doody Color Television Set. (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Howdy Doody Color Television Set / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

I'll Give You a Wrist Watch, Archery Set, Flash Camera or any of 70 Big Prizes (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

American Specialty Company Christmas Cards & Seals / advertisement / 1 page (report information)