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Issue: Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #28
Publication Date: September 1951
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Issues: #28 of 50 Issues
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Publisher: FlagSt. John
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Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Tortoise and the Hare… and the Mouse

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; tortoise; hare
Synopsis: In the classic race, Mighty Mouse helps the tortoise beat the hare.
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Pages: 1
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Wrestling with a Problem

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
First Line: Eureka! I've discovered a new wrestling hold that'll make me unbeatable!
Synopsis: Gandy finds a way to escape Sourpuss’ unbeatable wrestling hold.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.
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A Battle Royal

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; mad scientist (death); cave-man creatures; Professor Timmins (museum curator); farmer; cow; various anthropormorphic police, fire fighters, and civilians
First Line: Riot call – all cars – fire department – crash trucks!
Synopsis: A goony mad scientist revives a series of fossilized caveman creatures, who go on a rampage. Mighty Mouse punches them back into chunks of stone, to be used to “pave all the main streets in town”.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Jim Tyer credit supplied to indexer by animation historian and author Thad Komorowski.
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Watch Fishing

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
First Line: Hello, Sourpuss, how do you like my new method of fishing?
Synopsis: Gandy confounds Sourpuss with a new fishing method.
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Pages: 0.5
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Discount Mind Reading

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
First Line: How much to read my mind?
Synopsis: Mind-reader Gandy offers Sourpuss a reduced rate.
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Imperiled by Jungle Animals

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; Trader Korn; various jungle animals; express company delivery man; wild cat cannibals
First Line: In our last episode, Pearl Pureheart had been rescued by Mighty Mouse after a terrific battle.
Synopsis: Oil Can Harry unleashes a pack of wild jungle animals on Mighty Mouse.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Jim Tyer credit supplied to indexer by animation historian and author Thad Komorowski.
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Much Ado About Nothing

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Dinky (duck); Mr. Rudy (rooster); hens; hawk
First Line: Golly, Mr. Rudy has certainly become superstitious!
Synopsis: Is Dinky a bad-luck duck? Mr. Rudy thinks so.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Dinky’s feathers are black in this story, to allow Mr. Rudy to make a connection between Dinky and the bad-luck of black cats, etc. In many other comic book stories, Dinky’s feathers are grey.
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A Mouse in the House

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Farmer Gray; Little Roquefort (mouse); Whiskers (cat)
First Line: "Well," said the cat, yawning and stretching, "Since I have nothing else to do, I guess I'll just read the Farmer's Newspaper."
Synopsis: Whiskers needs a mouse to keep his job as a mouse-catcher.
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Helping Mama

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Weather Bears
Character(s): Weather Bears (aka "The Terry Bears"); Mama; Papa
First Line: What's that, Mama?
Synopsis: The little bears simultaneously help Mama, and injure Papa.
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Disclose Notes: Early on, the characters that would be known as "The Terry Bears", were called "The Weather Bears".
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The Candy Cottage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Hansel and Gretel-like mice; Papa and Mama mice; evil witch; broom-riding cats
First Line: Once upon a time, in the days of witches and fairies, there lived a poor old woodchopper and his family.
Synopsis: The story of Hansel and Gretel with Mighty Mouse added to save the day.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Initials "CR" on last page, indicating artist Connie Rasinski. While the other two Mighty Mouse stories in this issue are off-the-wall-crazy, as one might expect from Jim Tyer, this story plays the Hansel and Gretel narrative fairly straight, as opposed to the type of “fairy tale parody” often found in cartoons and comics.
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The Moose Call

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit
First Line: Look, chum, I found a whistle but it doesn’t work.
Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle pawn a worthless silent whistle off on Dimwit as a moose call.
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Disclose Notes: Black and white on inside back cover.
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All Three Only $1.00

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Feature(s): Martin Industries
First Line: Free of extra charge your name engraved in golden letters on the following
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Disclose Notes: Offer of an engraved fountain pen, ball point pen, and mechanical pencil for 1.00. Color ad on back cover.

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