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Hot Lead Mosquitoes

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry

First Line: Say, Pearl, are any mosquitoes bothering you?

Synopsis: Mighty Mouse casually brushes-off Oil Can Harry's gunfire.

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Pages: 1

Gandy Writes a Book

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; rug-beating lady (Gregory's wife); Gregory (huge, muscled man); trash-burning man; crook; detective

First Line: "Gandy! Gandy!" shouted Sourpuss as he walked through the house poking his head into one room after another.

Synopsis: Gandy writes a book about the adventures he and Sourpuss have had together, with each chapter correctly making Sourpuss appear more and more foolish. Insisting that he's the heroic type, Sourpuss sets out to prove Gandy wrong - but only succeeds in adding more humorous material to Gandy's book.

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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.

Pureheart Perils, Italian Style

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; lions; applauding Venetians

First Line: Foreword - Dear Friends: This episode takes place in the beautiful country of Italy where there are many ancient wonderful things to behold.

Synopsis: Oil Can Harry hangs Pearl Pureheart off the Leaning Tower of Pisa by a single strand of spaghetti, while Mighty Mouse fights thousands upon thousands of lions in the remains of the Roman Coliseum. Harry drains the canals of Venice and reignites Mt. Vesuvius in his efforts to stop Mighty Mouse but ends up getting blasted into the stratosphere by a scalding burst of steam.

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Pages: 8

Notes: With the exception of a different ending involving the peril of Mt. Vesuvius, this story is pretty much a beat-for-beat adaptation of the 1950 Mighty Mouse theatrical short "Sunny Italy" - with, of course, the requisite operatic singing featured in the short. Release date for the cartoon and publication date of the comic indicate a parallel period of production. Information per Merlin Haas (2022).

Art Undercover of Darkness

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster

First Line: At last, my masterpiece is finished!

Synopsis: Dinky explains his latest painting to Rudy.

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Pages: 0.5

Escape Tack-tics

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Little Roquefort; Percy Puss

Synopsis: A well-placed box of tacks helps Roquefort avoid capture by Percy Puss.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Pantomime. Percy Puss is colored gray, rather than his usual black.

Feature is billed simply as "Roquefort", rather than "Little Roquefort"

A Tall Tale

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; cop

First Line: Boy - what a game this is!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle get jobs as advertising stilt-walkers, allowing them to see a baseball game while they work.

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Machine Trouble

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; country club manager; farmer; horse; pigs; chickens; Mr. Nolan (country club golf champion); golf spectators

First Line: Golly, Sourpuss, we're broke again!

Synopsis: Gandy and Sourpuss get jobs as groundskeepers at a country club, where they wreak havoc with a wild ride on a gigantic tractor-lawn mower.

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Pages: 5

Scrambled Yeggs

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; mole

First Line: Mr. Rudy! Mr. Rudy! Someone or something has stolen a basket of eggs!

Synopsis: Rudy uses psychology on a mole to get him to return a basket of stolen eggs, but the rooster just ends up with egg-on-his-face.

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The Brain Book

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

First Line: All right, step right up and buy our latest book. It makes you smart, improves your mind.

Synopsis: Streetcorner salesmen Heckle and Jeckle's new book takes an unorthodox approach to making Dimwit smarter.

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Notes: GOOD BIT: Dimwit's meager attempt at resisting the magpies' overpowering brand of salesmanship:

DIMWIT: "Da-a- what do I want a book for? I ALREADY OWN a book!"

Mighty Mouse and the Sky Pirates

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Slim (vulture); Fats (vulture); Homer Pigeon (not the Walter Lantz character); members of the Carrier Pigeon Air-Mail Delivery Squad

First Line: Hey, Slim, Here's something interesting.

Synopsis: When a new Carrier Pigeon Air-Mail Delivery Squad is formed, thieving vultures Slim and Fats waylay Homer, the pigeons' captain, and steal the mail. Mighty Mouse soon cancels the vultures' stamps.

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Mighty Mouse Jumbo Edition #44187 published January 1974
as Sky Pirates [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

A Smashing Idea

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss

First Line: I'm sick and tired of washing dishes. There ought to be an easier way of doing this.

Synopsis: Gandy tries washing a stack of dishes in the churning clothes washer and wishes he hadn't.

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The Runaway Freight Train

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; picnicking mice; wolf; sheriff

First Line: Golly, I travel at the rate of 1090 feet a second, but I can't catch Mighty Mouse!

Synopsis: A wolf locks a bunch of picnicking mice in a freight train's boxcar and sets the train on a high-speed course to destruction. Will Mighty Mouse "come to save the day"? What do you think?

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Pages: 7

Notes: Page 6, panel 5: Jim Tyer's uniquely cartoony art stylings are wonderfully absurd in depicting Mighty Mouse stopping the runaway train in its tracks. The locomotive and a long string of boxcars compress like an accordion - except the one boxcar directly behind the locomotive that contains the mice, who are somehow thrown safely free of the wreckage.

Sure-Shot Sourpuss

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss

First Line: Good shot, Sourpuss!

Synopsis: While golfing, Sourpuss "gets a birdie" in more ways than one.

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Pages: 1

Notes: On final interior page of the comic.

One Pair Too Many

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; Dimwit

First Line: Sourpuss told me not to invite you to spend the night. He's going to be awful mad if he finds you here.

Synopsis: With Gandy, Sourpuss, and Dimwit sleeping in the same bed, Sourpuss counts the number of pairs of feet sticking out of the blanket and comes to a confusing conclusion.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Color on back cover.