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Issue: Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #59
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Publisher: FlagSt. John
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Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Corporation
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: While sporting a new cover, the interior comic and text content is all reprint.
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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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So, Ya Wanna be a Football (Super) Hero?

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anthropomorphic, superhero
Mighty Mouse, football team of cats
Running (flying?) back Mighty Mouse rushes the ball downfield, mowing down the defenses of a football team of cats.
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Painted cover. New cover for an issue of reprints.
Terrific Value!

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Be the first in your crowd to get this sensational collection of airplanes
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Ad offering an assortment of 40 colorful plastic airplanes for 98-cents from Lucky Products. Black and white ad on inside front cover.
Pureheart Perils, Italian Style

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anthropomorphic, superhero
Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry; lions; applauding Venetians
Foreword - Dear Friends: This episode takes place in the beautiful country of Italy where there are many ancient wonderful things to behold.
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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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).
Gandy's Three Wishes

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Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; three gangsters; police
'It certainly is nice to be walking around in the woods!" said Gandy as he and Sourpuss tramped their way through a forest.
While walking in the woods, Gandy finds a ring capable of granting him three wishes.
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In the text story's single illustration, Gandy is colored gray, rather than his usual white.
Machine Trouble

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Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; country club manager; farmer; horse; pigs; chickens; Mr. Nolan (country club golf champion); golf spectators
Golly, Sourpuss, we're broke again!
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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Scrambled Yeggs

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Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; mole
Mr. Rudy! Mr. Rudy! Someone or something has stolen a basket of eggs!
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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Kids! Be the First to Send for This New Plastic Aircraft Carrier with 5 Catapulting Jets

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Only $1.00 Post Paid
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Ad from Lucky Products offering a plastic aircraft carrier toy. "It catapults, it floats, it runs on dry land. Equipped with 5 catapulting jets that zoom off the runway with the flick of the finger. The carrier is fully 2/3's of a foot long!" Also included at no extra cost "...a small supporting fleet of real plastic molded warships, consisting of: 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 submarine, 1 P.T. boat, and one aircraft carrier". That "second aircraft carrier" presumably measured-in at less than the star attraction's "2/3's of a foot long!" Middle right page of centerfold.
Mighty Mouse and the Sky Pirates

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Mighty Mouse; Slim (vulture); Fats (vulture); Homer Pigeon (not the Walter Lantz character); members of the Carrier Pigeon Air-Mail Delivery Squad
Hey, Slim, Here's something interesting.
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 now appearing on Television in the Barker Bill Cartoon Show

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Mighty Mouse; Barker Bill (a ringmaster/TV host)
A CBS Television Network Program
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Ad for the CBS Television Network series "The Barker Bill Cartoon Show" which features Mighty Mouse. As this ad would have appeared in mid-to-late 1950, it is presumed to herald the television debut of Mighty Mouse.
The Runaway Freight Train

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Mighty Mouse; picnicking mice; wolf; sheriff
Golly, I travel at the rate of 1090 feet a second, but I can't catch Mighty Mouse!
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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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.
Look at the Prized Stamp I Found!

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Bow-tied young man holding a green glowing stamp (comic art, not photo)
No telling what hidden treasures YOU’LL find
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Ad offering a free, unsorted and random packet of “…Spanish or Spanish colony stamps – many taken from collections of old church missions”. Also included a “…mystery packet of 5 Spanish colony stamps” and a pamphlet titled “How to Collect Stamps”! All free, but for 10-cents “to help cover actual postage and handling costs”. On final interior page of the comic.
Men-Women-Boys-Girls Prizes Given

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Make money too!
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Ad offering prizes or money for the sales of "inspiring, beautiful religious wall motto plaques". Black and white ad on inside back cover.
Be in the Bucks!

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Carry all this money in a beautiful, new 2 color wallet. Surprise the kids. They’ll think it’s real cash!
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Ad for Cracker Jack candy-coated popcorn and peanut snacks offering “…a big handful of play money totaling $144 in one, five, ten, and twenty dollar bills, each with your own name printed on it – and a very attractive, well made two color wallet in which to carry your play money”. A separate offer on the same page offers U.S. Military bracelets. Each requires a Cracker Jack label to be sent. Color ad on back cover.

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