Mighty Mouse
#164
(July 1965)
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1965-04-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- K. K. Publications Inc.
- Brand
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Gold Key
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Edited out of Western Publishing's New York offices.
This issue is a rare instance of Western Publishing reprinting comic book material originating from a source other than itself (St. John Publishing). Such is the case for Mighty Mouse (Western, 1964 Series) #161-165 (1964-1965).
The Bird of Doom!
Mighty Mouse / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mighty Mouse takes desperate action to destroy The Bird of Doom!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Mouse (cover element illustration); Mighty Mouse (inset illustration); Bird of Doom
- Synopsis
- Mighty Mouse fights the Bird of Doom with a battleship.
- Keywords
- battleship; giant bird
Indexer Notes
New cover for an issue of reprints.
Undesirable Character
Little Roquefort / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's that contrivance, may I ask?
- Feature Logo
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
-
from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #42 (June 1953)
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- Keywords
- best-laid-plans; slingshot; turning the tables
Indexer Notes
Black and white on inside front cover.
The Bird of Doom
Mighty Mouse / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deep among the burning wastes of the desert, a research party led by the world-famous mouse scientist, Professor Edam, has made a tremendous discovery.
- Feature Logo
Mighty Mouse [Western Publishing Logo]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; Professor Edam; members of Professor Edam's research team; cat-spy; The Claw; Professor Ohm; various members of The Claw's gang; Bird of Doom (giant bird); stuffy battleship admiral; various battleship crew members
- Synopsis
- Professor Edam's archeological expedition unearths a tremendous egg from beneath the Egyptian desert. Tipped-off by a cat-spy, The Claw and Professor Ohm forcibly take the egg, hatching the "Bird of Doom" inside, and raise the bird to combat Mighty Mouse.
- Reprints
- from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #39 (March 1953)
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- Keywords
- battleship; desert setting; giant bird; giant egg; heroics; title or logo modification
Indexer Notes
However soft-pedaled in the art, the Bird of Doom is uncharacteristically killed on-panel.
For this Gold Key reprint, Western Publishing provided a new “Mighty Mouse” logo, added the title “The Bird of Doom” to the opening splash panel, and produced its own coloring for this story.
Jungle Terror
Mighty Mouse / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 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...
- Feature Logo
- Mighty Mouse [Western Publishing Logo]
- 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
- from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #42 (June 1953)
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- 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
For this Gold Key reprint, Western Publishing provided a new “Mighty Mouse” logo, and lettered the title “Jungle Terror” in a more modern-style within a newly-added rectangular panel at the upper left corner of the opening splash panel, and also produced its own coloring for this story.
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.
Mail Order Mayhem
Gandy Goose / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't tell me you're writing for more things through the mail!
- Feature Logo
Gandy Goose [St. John Logo with Character]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; mailman
- Synopsis
- Fed up with Gandy's mania for ordering different objects through the mail, Sourpuss decides to burn Gandy's latest package arrival with the trash.
- Reprints
- from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 series) #46 (October 1953)
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- Keywords
- mail order marketing; package; unintended slapstick consequences
Indexer Notes
Black and white on inside back cover.
Mighty Mouse Pin-Up
Mighty Mouse / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Mouse; Bird of Doom
- Synopsis
- Mighty Mouse fights the Bird of Doom with a battleship.
- Keywords
- battleship; giant bird; pin-up
Indexer Notes
The front cover image is repeated on the back cover, sans logo and all cover copy. Also sans the Mighty Mouse inset illustration.
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0.
The Bird of Doom!
Mighty Mouse -
1.
Undesirable Character
Little Roquefort -
2.
The Bird of Doom
Mighty Mouse -
3.
Jungle Terror
Mighty Mouse -
4.
Mail Order Mayhem
Gandy Goose -
5.
Mighty Mouse Pin-Up
Mighty Mouse
- Steve Coates
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Joe Torcivia
- Jim Van Dore
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