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Issue: Mighty Mouse #164

- Attribution History

Publication Date: July 1965

Issue #164
- Adventures of Mighty Mouse
- #161
- #162
- #163
- ✔ #164
- #165
- Show Variants
- Mighty Mouse

Detail

Issues: #164 of 5 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Western

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 04/01/1965

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.12 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Cover code: 10010-507. On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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).

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- The Bird of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

The Bird of Doom!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse (cover element illustration); Mighty Mouse (inset illustration); Bird of Doom

First Line: Mighty Mouse takes desperate action to destroy The Bird of Doom!

Synopsis: Mighty Mouse fights the Bird of Doom with a battleship.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: New cover for an issue of reprints.

Undesirable Character

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Little Roquefort; Percy Puss

First Line: What's that contrivance, may I ask?

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

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.

The Bird of Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): 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

First Line: 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.

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.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #39 published March 1953
was The Bird of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 16

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

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): 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

First Line: 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...

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.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 16

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

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; mailman

First Line: Don't tell me you're writing for more things through the mail!

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.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside back cover.

Mighty Mouse Pin-Up

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Bird of Doom

Synopsis: Mighty Mouse fights the Bird of Doom with a battleship.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The front cover image is repeated on the back cover, sans logo and all cover copy. Also sans the Mighty Mouse inset illustration.