Terrytoons Giant Summer Fun Book #101

(Summer 1957)

Washed Up Sourpuss (Table of Contents: 1)

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

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Where are you going, Gandy?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss

Synopsis

Sourpuss earns more trouble than he can handle when he suspects Gandy's sudden enthusiasm for washing windows is an attempt to move in on his girl.

Indexer Notes

This inside front cover also contains the issue's indicia, as well as the Pine's logo and tagline: 'Look for this seal when you buy a comic magazine. It guarantees quality and wholesome entertainment.'

Trail to Trouble (Table of Contents: 2)

Mighty Mouse [animated film superhero] / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Terrytown cheers its Junior Scouts as the start off for their annual hike.

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humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

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Mighty Mouse; Junior Scouts; Jimmy [a Junior Scout leader]; Mitzi Mouse; The Claw; unnamed bus driver; unnamed members of The Claw's gang; unnamed townspeople; unnamed mayor of Terrytown

Synopsis

When Mighty Mouse joins Jimmy and the Junior Scouts on their annual hike, it seems like the best day ever, at least until their picnic lunch is interrupted by rain, forcing Mitzi Mouse and the Scouts to seek shelter in a creepy, old home while Mighty Mouse flies back to town to grab a bus to transport the kids home. But when the Scouts discover the house is being used as a hideout by The Claw and his gang, all seems lost as they're marched through the forest to a place where they'll be the picnic lunch. Luckily, MM us able to track the cats thanks to Jimmy's scoutcraft in blazing a trail.

Keywords

camping; hiking; picnic; Terrytown

Indexer Notes

Connie Rasinski's signature is on the fifth panel of the last page.

Three pages into the story, Mitzi's hair turns from red to black.

The Eye of India (Table of Contents: 3)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Romancing raffles who rifles rich reported heading for our town.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Heckle and Jeckle; Dopey Dog; Artie the Dip; unnamed police chief; unnamed society mavens

Synopsis

When a grifting master of disguise appears in town, Heckle and Jeckle scheme to lure him out and earn the million dollar reward for his capture by dressing up Dopey Dog as a society maven and outfitting him with a diamond ring crafted out of broken glass yet touted as the priceless Eye of India. And though the plan works and they get their reward, a chance tornado blows away their cash, leaving them with only the worthless ring.

Keywords

Diamond ring; disguise; society ball; tornado

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Heckle and Jeckle / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Draw lines from number to number and see what Hecle and Jeckle are laughing at.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Heckel and Jeckle

Indexer Notes

This is a connect-the-dots activity page.

Fools Afloat (Table of Contents: 5)

Gandy Goose / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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The biggest boat afloat, and right in town!

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humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; unnamed ships captain and crew

Synopsis

When Gandy and Sourpuss head to the docks to eyeball a visiting ocean liner, they stumble into getting pulled on board with the cargo and, taken for stowaways, are put to work to earn their keep. Naturally, wacky hijinks ensure as the pair mess up one job after another.

Keywords

ocean liner

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Clint Clobber / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Oh, Mr. Clobber. [musical notes]

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Clint Clobber; Miss Rosebud; Stanley Storage

Synopsis

Cling Clobber helps an attractive neighbor by moving heavy furniture back and forth and forth and back at her whim, only to storm out when he learns the effort was just so she can show her boyfriend, who just happens to be a moving man, how the set-up will look in the new apartment she's moving into.

Fishermen's Folly (Table of Contents: 7)

Sourpuss [Terrytoons Cartoon Cat] / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Hurry and dig some bait or we'll miss the fish

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Sourpuss; Gandy Goose

Synopsis

Sourpuss and Gandy find buried treasure while digging for worms, but mistakenly throw it in the river when they assume what's in the trunk to worthless.

Gandy's Vacation Fun Back (Table of Contents: 8)

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Stand a friend with his heels against the wall and lay a dollar bill on the floor at his feet.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss

Indexer Notes

A riddle is bookended with two ideas for how to make money from friends by betting on seemingly impossible feats, with instructions on how to actually perform the tricks.

Butting Bully (Table of Contents: 9)

Dinky [Terrytoons Cartoon Duck] / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Gangway!

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Billy Goat; unnamed barnyard animals

Synopsis

When the animals threaten to oust Rudy Rooster from his job as barnyard boss if he does't calm an out-of-control goat, he and Dinky brainstorm ways to end the headbutting brouhaha. They hit on an scheme to trick the goat into wearing roller skates, thus robbing him of the leverage needed to knock people down, and though successful at first, the plan comes apart thanks to Rudy's victory hubris.

The Swiss cheese Family Robinson (Table of Contents: 10)

Mighty Mouse [animated film superhero] / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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This is your keyhole reporter with the latest news . . . FLASH!

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Bromo, King of the Cannibal Cats; Cookie [chef of the Cannibal Cats]; unnamed doctor; Robinson Family [presumably a father, son, and daughter, all unnamed except in the story title]; unnamed Miami Beach sunbathers; unnamed Cannibal Cats

Synopsis

While vacationing on Miami Beach, Mighty Mouse responds to a message in a bottle from a shipwrecked family of mice, arriving just in time to save them from a horde of cannibal cats.

Keywords

cannibals; desert island; Miami Beach; ship wreck

Indexer Notes

Art Bartsch's signature is in the last panel.

The location of Cannibal Cat Island is given as 25° N latitude by 50" W longitude, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Color Page (Table of Contents: 11)

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Get acquainted with these new characters

Characters

Tom Terrific; Mighty Manfred; Gaston Le Crayon; De Witt Clinton Clobber

Indexer Notes

This is a coloring page featuring four Terrytoons characters.

Amateur Doctor (Table of Contents: 12)

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

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Gandy, Gandy, get the doctor -- get the doctor --

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; unnamed doctor

Synopsis

Gandy costs Sourpuss a hefty medical bill when he tries to cure a kink in the cat's back without the aid of a doctor.

The Misdirected Scarcrow (Table of Contents: 13)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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What an odd idea! Why do you want to make a scarecrow?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Heckle and Jeckle; Sparky [a telepathically-controlled robot scarecrow]; unnamed hippo housewife

Synopsis

Heckle and Jeckle's plan to make a million dollars off a telepathically-controlled robot scarecrow put to work as an interior decorator goes awry when the robot, failing to get Heckle's mental signals, fails to stop and re-doing walls and goes on to cover every object in an unsuspecting housewife's home in the gaudiest of wallpapers.

Puzzle Page (Table of Contents: 14)

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One day, Gandy laid 4 wooden matches on a table and asked Sourpuss, 'Can you move just one match and make a square?'

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; Heckle and Jeckle

Indexer Notes

This page contains a series of four riddles and puzzles, with headshots of Terrytoons characters.

Wild Game Hunt (Table of Contents: 15)

Gandy Goose / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Sourpuss, do we have to go wild animal hunting?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; unnamed non-anthropomorphic animals

Synopsis

When Gandy and Sourpuss land a plane in a deeply forested area, hoping to capture wild animals they can sell to a circus, they are frustrated by a series of unfruitful, if comical, attempts, only to wind up arrested when it turns out they touched down inside a protected zoological garden.

Keywords

jungle; lion; monkey

Gandy Goose's Safety Message (Table of Contents: 16)

Gandy Goose / activity / 1 page (report information)

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To read, hold bottom of page to tip of nose and look along paper

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose

Indexer Notes

The hidden message reads, "Always look both ways."

The Deep Freeze Gang (Table of Contents: 17)

Mighty Mouse [animated film superhero] / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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On the outskirts of Terrytown, a suspicious looking pair sneak through the back streets carrying a mysterious box.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; The Claw; Slim [a member of The Claw's gang]; Dumpy [a member of The Claw's gang]; Mitzi Mouse; unnamed police chief; unnamed residents of Terrytown

Synopsis

Mighty Mouse foils The Claw's plan to capture Terrytown's children for "mousicles" by using the lure of a free Mighty Mouse movie.

Puzzle Page (Table of Contents: 18)

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I say it's impossible, Dinky!

Characters

Rudy Rooster; Dinky Duck; Gandy Goose; Papa Bear

Indexer Notes

This page features four mind-bending puzzles with solutions, accompanied by drawings of Terrytoons characters.

Luck (Table of Contents: 19)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Come on, chum, it's time to get up.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Heckle and Jeckle

Synopsis

Heckle defies bad luck omens to Jeckle's ultimate consternation.

Barnyard Babysitter (Table of Contents: 20)

Dinky [Terrytoons Cartoon Duck] / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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What are you doing, Mr. Rudy?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster;Mrs. Leghorn; unnamed Leghorn triplets

Synopsis

When Rudy starts a babysitting service and puts inexperienced Dinky in charge of sitting for the babies while he drums up additional business, the young duck is driven to exhaustion by a terrible trio of chicks who put him through one harrowing experience after another, only to result in getting fired when the mother returns to find him asleep on the job.

Keywords

babysitter

Surprise Date (Table of Contents: 21)

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

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Go downstairs and answer that doorbell, will you?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gandy Goose; Sourpuss

Synopsis

When Candy answers the doorbell, his inexact message to Sourpuss makes the Casanova cat mistake the intentions of what he presumes to be a potential paramour at the door.

A Visit to Grandma's (Table of Contents: 22)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Halt!

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Heckle and Jeckle; Little Red Riding Hood [mentioned]; Grandmother; Big Bad Wolf

Synopsis

When Heckle and Jeckle attempt to seize the easy life by getting themselves adopted by Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, they find the big bad wolf already in residence at her house, at which they proceed to wreck the place while repeatedly frustrating his ravenous appetite for magpie pie.

Keywords

Grandmother's House

Indexer Notes

Connie Rasinski's signature is in the last panel.

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Color this page of your favorite characters.

Characters

Terry Bears; Papa Bear; Sourpuss; Mighty Mouse; Gandy Goose; Heckle and Jeckle; Dinky Duck.

Indexer Notes

This is a coloring page featuring nine Terrytoons characters.

Although Dinky is colored completely black in this issue's comics stories, his contours are left open for this feature.

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Clint Clobber / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Mrs. O'Bleary? Are you in?

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Clint Clobber; Mrs. O'Bleary

Synopsis

Standing stark still in an attempt to hide from nearsighted Mrs. O'Bleary, who doesn't want him in her apartment fixing her sink when she's not there, Clint is mistaken for a dressmakers form due to be delivered, and ends up a pincushion for the old lady's latest creation.

Prospecting for Trouble (Table of Contents: 25)

Mighty Mouse [animated film superhero] / comic story / 9.5 pages (report information)

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Cruising lesisurely over Terrytown, Mighty Mouse, champion of the oppressed, is attracted by some excitement below.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; The Claw; unnamed members of The Claw's gang; Mitzi's unnamed grandfather

Synopsis

When Mitzti's grandfather strikes uranium in his spent gold mine located in the Old West town of Red Gap, The Claw and his gang move in, forcing him to lure Mitzi to him by wiring that he's struck it rich. The gang succeeds in knocking Mighty Mouse out of commission during the train ride west, and hope kidnappig Mitzi will force the grandfather to sign over the mine, but Mighty Mouse recovers and arrives just in time to save the day.

Keywords

mine; old west; Terrytown; train; uranium

Indexer Notes

Connie Rasinski's signature is in the third panel of the last page.

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Dinky [Terrytoons Cartoon Duck] / cartoon / 0.5 page (report information)

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Boy, this apple is delicious

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster

Synopsis

Dinky spots half a worm in the apple Rudy is eating, which causes the rooster the blanch when he realizes where the other half went.

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John Doormat / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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My Ladies' Club president, Mrs. Spasm, is going to drop by.

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

John Doormat; Jane Doormat; Mrs. Spasm; Jane's parakeet.

Synopsis

While attempting to catch his wife's escaped parakeet, John confirms the suspicion of her Ladies' Club president that, 'all men are a trifle coo-coo.'

Keywords

butterfly net

Making Headway (Table of Contents: 28)

Dimwit [Terrytoons Cartoon Dog] / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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You don't want to buy a book, do you?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Dimwit Dog

Synopsis

Dimwit's attempt to follow advice in selling books gets him booked up side the head.

Pale Puss (Table of Contents: 29)

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It's fun to pop empty bags!

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Little Roquefort; Percy Cat

Synopsis

When Percy continually pops paper bags outside Little Roquefort's door, refusing to let him get any sleep, the redoubtable rodent conspires with the kitchen supplies to get the pesky cat ejected from the house.