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Issue: Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat #113
Publication Date: January 1961
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Issues: #113 of 57 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/15/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: A "Star" theme runs through the entire issue, with the exception of the "Tee Vee Serial" and the "Kitty" story. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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
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Egg on his Face

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat
Synopsis: Felix flips a pan of fried eggs, which take the form of his "eyes" when they hit him in the face.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Michael Morgan.

New cover for an issue of reprints.
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Star Lighter, Star Bright

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; angry guy
First Line: What a beautiful day!
Synopsis: A surly smoker asks Felix for a light.
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A Not So Lucky Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; goat; cop; fisherman; prospector; bear; lucky bystander; sweepstakes winner; telescope attendant
First Line: A four leaf clover! How lucky!
Synopsis: Felix has one occurrence of bad luck after another, while those around him have nothing but good fortune. To change his luck, Felix decides to search for his lucky star.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Part One of Three.
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If the Box Fits, Wear It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Kitty; hat shop delivery man; high society lady
First Line: Oh, dear! Three o'clock and it isn't here yet!
Synopsis: Kitty improvises a hat for a ritzy society gathering. There, she is asked by an upper-crust matron to design a new evening gown.
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The Land of Luck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; rocket testing crew; attendants of Felix's lucky star
First Line: I'll bet I can find my lucky star here!
Synopsis: Felix hitches a ride into space on a test rocket in order to find his lucky star. After some difficulties, he succeeds in being sprinkled with star dust and having his whiskers painfully stretched to act as luck antennae.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Part Two of Three.
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The Acid Test

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; Kitty; brick-throwing bully; fancy restaurant waiter; pedestrian; raffle official; two robbers; police officer; businessman; TV producer; TV make-up man; street robber; hungry bird
First Line: Felix! Where did you come from?
Synopsis: Felix returns to Earth, charmed by the powers of his lucky star. Things go very well for him until a TV make-up man dusts off his star dust and shaves his whiskers (as a matter of routine prep before Felix appears on a TV interview show), relieving the cat of his all-too-briefly possessed good luck.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Temporarily, at least, Felix must have been lucky beyond all luck when a TV producer approaches him with an absurdly high offer of money - the amount of which is expressed in a humorously odd fashion:

PRODUCER: "Wait! Station WNIX wants you to appear on their T.V. show "Public Heroes"! We'll pay A THOUSAND GRAND!"

Part Three of Three.
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Teacher's Pet

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Gladys Goldfish; blowfish; trout; boy; pet show judges
First Line: Gladys Goldfish was the shyest creature at the bottom of the lake.
Synopsis: Gladys Goldfish is very shy and self-conscious, until she wins a blue ribbon at a pet show.
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The Swimming Poodle

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Peter Poodle; Peter's master (boy); Billy (master's baby brother); boy's father
First Line: Peter Poodle sat himself down on the other side of the house where he couldn't see the swimming pool at all.
Synopsis: Peter Poodle is forbidden to jump into the family's swimming pool, until he rescues a baby from drowning.
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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the (Cannon) Fire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; angry chimp; shark; cannon-firing fish
First Line: Stung to fury when Felix gave him a hornet's nest in mistake for a cocoanut, a huge chimp dashes madly after Felix!
Synopsis: Felix gets away from the angry chimp by rolling off the island and into the sea, inside the same artillery shell casing he used to escape the battleship in issue #110. He's forced to abandon his makeshift casing-boat when a hurricane approaches. Diving beneath the waves, Felix finds a sunken ship full of food - but must flee from a shark. He ducks into an old cannon, which is fired by a fish, and is blown back into the teeth of the gale - headed for who-knows-where.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Art and coloring simulate a black-and-white television program. Continued from issue #112 and continued in issue #114.

A reworking of several of the elements of a story titled "Felix the Cat Modern Jonah" in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954), which was reformatted from an original Otto Messmer Felix newspaper strip continuity of the 1930s.
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Shooting at a Star

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Inky; Dinky; Kitty; neighbor; helicopter pilot
First Line: Inky and Dinky! It's time for bed!
Synopsis: When Inky and Dinky wish upon a star and nothing happens, they decide to facilitate matters by shooting a handwritten note containing their wish to a star by bow and arrow. The arrow goes no further than a neighbor's open window and the seat of his pants. The neighbor good-naturedly conspires with Aunt Kitty to put a scare into the would-be star-archers.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: According to Felix expert and historian David Gerstein, author of "Nine Lives to Live a Classic Felix Celebration by Otto Messmer" (1996, Fantagraphics Books), Messmer did some pencil art during the Harvey run - but with different inkers, so his work here less reflects his more classic works of the newspaper strip and the Dell and Toby Press comics. Per indexer's personal conversation with David Gerstein (2022).

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