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Fish Dinner - No Strings Attached

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; two fish; worm; Mighty Mouse (inset); Heckle (inset); Jeckle (inset); Farmer Al Falfa (inset); Gandy Goose (inset)

Synopsis: Two fish cut Dimwit's fishing line and serve themselves the bait-worm on a platter.

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Pages: 1

Notes: The entire scene of this cover takes place below the water's surface - with the upper portion of the cover serving as the "water's surface" as seen from below.

This cover differs from that of Paul Terry's Terrytoon Comics (St. John, 1951 Series) #86 by the "filmstrip logo" for Paul Terry's Comics and the character insets at the cover's left side.

Dimwit’s New Car

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; Heckle; Jeckle; police officer

First Line: Dimwit certainly enjoyed his new shiny blue convertible!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle scheme to "borrow" Dimwit's new car to impress their dates.

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Pages: 2

Notes: Begins on the inside front cover (page 1) and concludes on the inside back cover (page 2). One black and white illustration on page 1.

Magpie Madness

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; old man in portrait painting; Lester (pigeon); flock of other pigeons; milkman; baby; other upset citizens; black-masked robbers; police chief; Pickfingers Percy (crime boss); various members of Percy's gang; Louie (member of Percy's gang); fox (member of Percy's gang)

First Line: Happy Birthday to Heckle - happy birthday to you!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle put an end to the city's massive crime wave with "Liquid Magnetism", invented by Heckle with the chemistry set he received for his birthday.

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Pages: 7

Notes: The Tyer Touch: In the midst of the crime wave...

CAPTION: "The police chief's hands are tied." We see the chief sitting forlornly at his desk - with large and tightly wound ropes around his wrists.

POLICE CHIEF: (in despair): "I can only sit helplessly by while they steal the station house!" We see three burglars lifting the frame of the police station, and carrying it off.

Pickfingers Percy, the crime boss, does his best impression of Edward G. Robinson:
PERCY: "I'm BOSS here, seeee!! I've got BRAINS, seeee!"
MEMBERS OF GANG (answering individually): "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "No!!" "Yes."
...The one who said "No!!" gets shot!

History Doesn’t Repeat

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Sourpuss; Gandy Goose; female cat

First Line: Let's go for a walk!

Synopsis: Showing courtly courtesy, Sourpuss lays his coat over a puddle allowing a female cat to cross, a la Sir Walter Raleigh. Unfortunately for him, times have changed.

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Li'l Tigers Club

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Feature(s): Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum

Character(s): Pud; other kids

First Line: This ought to keep those durn girls away!

Synopsis: Pud and his pals want to keep girls out of their clubhouse... until they learn the girls have stocked-up on Dubble Bubble Gum.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Ad for Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum, featuring "Pud", a kid resembling "Tubby" from Little Lulu. Top half of page.

Money Grows at the Kissing Bank

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle

First Line: Every time I kiss my girl, I put a dime in her bank.

Synopsis: Romantic secrets are spilled between the magpies, and also some blood!

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Lower half of page.

Mystery on the Waterfront

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse (also as "The Masked Beauty"); The Claw; Terrytown chief of police (mouse); old seafaring mouse; various mice of Terrytown; Spike (cat, member of The Claw's gang); Slug (cat, member of The Claw's gang); Shanghai Jake (cat); many sailor mice attending the show at Shanghai Jake's; dopey-looking one-toothed cat (member of The Claw's gang); speedboat pilot (cat); cat cannoneers

First Line: At police headquarters in Terrytown we find the champion of justice conferring with the chief of police.

Synopsis: The Claw has his spies obtain Mighty Mouse's autograph, which the villain uses to trick Mitzi into a trap. Once in captivity, Mitzi is forced to sing (as "The Masked Beauty") at Shanghai Jake's waterfront dive, packing in many love-starved sailor mice - who are dropped through a trap door and into the Claw Gang's hungry clutches.

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Pages: 10

Notes: A reprint of the third appearance of Mighty Mouse's recurring villain The Claw.

The Picnic Stowaway

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Mrs. Rudy Rooster; three little chicks; game warden

First Line: Where are you going, fellows?

Synopsis: Rudy excludes Dinky from the Rooster family picnic. A disappointed Dinky tries to help Rudy in various ways, in the hope that Rudy will change his mind. Will Dinky "kill Rudy with kindness", or just plain kill him?

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Pages: 6

Notes: Ordinarily colored black, Dinky is colored orange in the original printing of the story - and is colored gray for this reprint.

Art Bartsch's signature appears in the opening panel of the original printing but is omitted for this reprint.

Sunken Treasure

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Farmer Al Falfa

Character(s): Farmer Al Falfa; Puddy (frisky pup); school of swordfish; school of sharp-toothed fish; eel; sea turtle; barracuda; octopus; Davy Jones (skeleton)

First Line: Come on, Puddy, we're a goin' to blast that old tree stump.

Synopsis: When blasting a tree stump, Farmer Al Falfa finds a map to a treasure buried at sea... or does he?

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Pages: 7

Notes: The lead character here is identified as "Farmer Al Falfa", when in most comics he is called "Farmer Gray". This reads very much like a cartoon adaption -- and perhaps it was, at least partially...

Merlin Haas points out that there was a 1936 Terrytoons cartoon titled "Sunken Treasures" (alternately known as "Down in the Deep" in its Castle Films "home-projection" film prints, prevalent throughout the years that preceded modern home video products) starring a character named "Puddy the Pup" - and it is the same character that appears in this story.

Puddy, with a human boy rather than Farmer Al Falfa, seeks the titular "Sunken Treasures" in a largely different story, but with a number of similar gag elements to this later comic book adaptation.

The connection would seem to be more than mere coincidence, right down to the almost matching titles "Sunken Treasures" (1936 cartoon) and "Sunken Treasure" (1954 comic book reprint - originally printed in 1951), as the Terrytoons comics published by St. John were largely produced by veterans of Paul Terry's animation studio.

Wanted Boys & Girls to Get These Swell Prizes

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Feature(s): American Seed Company, Inc.

First Line: Here's How - Do it Now!

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Notes: Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co., in exchange for prizes or money. Fifteen prizes are pictured in the ad (with many more promised in the available-by-mail "Big Prize Book"), accompanied by drawings of lots of excited and cheering kids. "Some of the bigger prizes require extra money as stated in our Big Prize Book"! Color ad on back cover.