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- Supply limited send today!
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- Mrs. Ruth Long (Gift Manager Dean Studios); miniature dog
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- dog; live animals as ad premiums; mail order marketing; photo enlargements
Ad for photograph enlargement prints, offering a free miniature dog as an incentive premium. Full figure photo of the miniature dog saying "Please give me a home" via a comic-style dialogue balloon. A penciled and inked woman's hand holds the dog (seen as a photo) in her palm.
Head and shoulders photo of Mrs. Ruth Long also speaking via a comic-style dialogue balloon... "I'll be happy to send you without you paying a penny, this loveable, young, miniature dog that is so tiny when even fully grown you can carry it in your pocket or hold it in one hand, yet it barks and is a reliable watch dog as well as a pet. You can keep it in a shoebox and enjoy many amusing hours teaching it tricks... active, healthy, intelligent, and clean."
5x7 enlargements are offered, each in a "handsome Movietone frame". Comes with get-acquainted-coupons "so you can tell your friends".
Black and white ad on inside front cover. Top 3/4 of page.
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- 20 billfold size pictures $1
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- mail order marketing; photo prints
Ad offering 20 billfold size prints of any photo for one dollar. Cash, as well as checks or money orders, is accepted by mail - with any enclosed photos. The two photo reproduction vendors sharing this page could very well be the same entity, as both are in Des Moines, IA. Black and white ad on inside front cover. Lower 1/4 of page.
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- As our story opens, Mighty Mouse has been summoned to meet with the Terrytown Bureau of Investigation.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; The Claw; members of The Claw's gang; Chief of the Terrytown Bureau of Investigation; mail carrier mouse; Mrs. Van Smyte (high society mouse); costume judge (mouse); costume party guests (mice)
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- The Claw's gang is stealing the Terrytown mail, leading him to a high-society costume party, with lots of jewels on display. The Claw robs the jewels and takes Mitzi as a hostage. Captive Mitzi devises a clever way to signal Mighty Mouse.
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- costume party; disguise; hostage; jewels; mail; robbery
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- AWP! EEEP! BROCK!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; Gandy's cousin Luke
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- Try as he might, Sourpuss cannot get a moment's quiet from Gandy.
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- best-laid-plans; need-for-peace-and-quiet; painting; reading; trombone; visiting relatives
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- Golly what a storm!
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- Terry Bears; Papa
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- Tucked in their bed for the night, the Terry Bears are scared as a storm rages outside. They turn to their "fearless" Papa for courage.
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- courage; fright; sleep problems; storm
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- Ssh -- I'm going to scare a certain mouse with this paper bag.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Little Roquefort; Percy Puss; mayor; Mrs. Van Meow; photographer
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- Percy Puss is to be honored by the mayor as "the model cat of the community", but not if Little Roquefort has anything to say about it.
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- award; banana peel; cat; exploding cigars; fame-is-fleeting; firecracker; jack-in-the box; mayor; model citizen; mouse; notable coloring modification; shower
Percy Puss is orange in this story, rather than his usual black.
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- In our last episode, we left Pearl Pureheart tied to the chimney of a burning cabin and surrounded by a band of blood curdling savages!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; blood curdling savages; Father Time; chickens; many professional wrestlers; referee; timekeeper; wrestling judges; two vultures
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- Oil Can Harry finally discovers Mighty Mouse's weakness... "He's allergic to cream puffs and can't stand being hit in the face with one"! And, for good measure, Harry sends an impossibly large number of professional wrestlers after our hero.
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- comic absurdity; cream puffs; hero's weakness; wrestlers
The Tyer Touch: A caption reads: "While hurrying to the rescue we find Mighty Mouse racing against time", to which Jim Tyer draws Mighty Mouse outrunning "Father Time", who is desperately trying to catch up.
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- Dimwit, the slow-minded dog, walked up to the door of Heckle and Jeckle to make his daily visit.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; housefly; Mr. Jones, fleas
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- Bad Idea #1: Heckle and Jeckle decide to become insect exterminators. Bad Idea #2: They hire Dimwit to scare up customers for them.
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- exterminators; fleas; flies
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- Mighty Mouse is relieving the housing shortage in Terrytown by bringing the elves a shoe to live in!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; three elves; Sam Spider; shark
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- Sam Spider takes over the shoe-house Mighty Mouse gave to the elves.
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- elves; heroics; house; muscling-in; shark; shoe; spider; spider web
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- Help! The gorilla is loose!
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- Judy; Jim; gorilla; panicked crowd; two zoo keepers; enthusiastic little kid
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- Brave kids Judy and Jim hold off an escaped zoo gorilla with the nifty premiums they received by selling White Cloverine Brand Salve from the Wilson Chemical Co.
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- gorilla; kids; live animals as ad premiums; prizes; product-spawned heroics; sales; salve; zoo
Ad for Wilson Chemical Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Cloverine Brand Salve. Among the many prizes offered in the ad is a live pony. "Look! Live Pony! Yessiree, a real, live pony for your very own!" Black and white ad on inside back cover.
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- Only $1.00 Post Paid
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- mail order marketing; ships; toys
Ad from Lucky Products offering a plastic aircraft carrier toy. "It catapults, it floats, it runs on dry land. Equipped with 5 catapulting jets that zoom off the runway with the flick of the finger. The carrier is fully 2/3's of a foot long!" Also included at no extra cost "...a small supporting fleet of real plastic molded warships, consisting of: 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 submarine, 1 P.T. boat, and one aircraft carrier". That "second aircraft carrier" presumably measured-in at less than the star attraction's "2/3's of a foot long!" Color ad on back cover.