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Water Ski for Three

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; three water skiing mice

Synopsis: Mighty Mouse tows three water skiing mice.

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Pages: 1

Notes: New cover for an issue of reprints.

Complete Baffling Magic Outfit 20 First Class Illusions

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First Line: Be a magician - fool and delight your friends with a full 2 hour mystery show.

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Notes: Ad for various magic tricks in a package sold by Honor House Products.
Black and white ad on inside front cover.

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 anthropomorphic 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

Notes: Jim Tyer credit supplied to indexer by animation historian and author Thad Komorowski.

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

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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Pages: 0.5

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

Notes: Jim Tyer credit supplied to indexer by animation historian and author Thad Komorowski.

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

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.

A Mouse in the House

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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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Here's How We Got Lionel Trains

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First Line: And how you can, too!

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Notes: Ad in comic form on how to get your father to buy you a Lionel Train Set.

The Candy Cottage

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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

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.

Hey Kids!! Send for the New Howdy Doody Color Television Set. Only $1

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Character(s): Howdy Doody; Clarabell; Mr. Bluster; Flub-A-Dub; Dilly Dally (all named in ad)

First Line: Complete with 8 rolls of color film

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Notes: Ad for a hand-held “rolling-strip-device” from Josely Company designed to simulate television viewing. Black and white ad on inside back cover.

I'll Give You a Wrist Watch, Archery Set, Flash Camera or any of 70 Big Prizes

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Character(s): "Uncle Harry" Bard (seen in black and white photo)

First Line: Without a cent of cost... Mail coupon for FREE Prize Book

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Notes: Ad for American Specialty Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Christmas cards. Ad runs vertically on full page. Color ad on back cover.

While not a true example of “comics-form advertising”, this ad does present four comic panels of two kids (Jean and Bobby) looking over Uncle Harry Bard’s ad, selling Christmas cards, receiving a prize package in the mail, and showing off their prizes to their friends. The comic portion of the ad is in black and white. The photo of Uncle Harry Bard is also in black and white, but the majority of the ad is in color.