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Issue: Mighty Mouse #161
Publication Date: October 1964
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Issues: #161 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
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Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10010-410. Publication date from cover code.

No ads in this issue. All 36 pages are comics or comics-related text material.

First in a series of issues of this title to be primarily reprint.

Previous numbered issue was published one year prior (Cover Date: October 1963).

Edited out of Western Publishing's New York offices.

This issue is a rare instance of Western Publishing reprinting comic book material originating from a source other than itself (St. John Publishing). Such is the case for Mighty Mouse (Western, 1964 Series) #161-165 (1964-1965).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Invasion of the Bat Cats!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; Bat Cat (originally one of the "Raiders From Saturn")
Synopsis: As a Bat Cat carries Mitzi off in a net, Mighty Mouse socks the winged feline in the jaw.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New cover illustrating a reprinted interior story. On this cover, the Bat Cat is colored green as they all were in the original printing of this story (named on it's cover as "The Raiders From Saturn") from Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 Series) #35 (November 1952). For the interior reprint of this story the Bat Cats are primarily colored in varying shades of gray.
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The Light Fantastic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; hotel desk clerk
Synopsis: At a seaside hotel, Heckle and Jeckle read comic books by the glow of a lighthouse.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New story. Pantomime. Black and white on inside front cover.
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The Invasion of the Bat Cats

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; The Claw; Professor Ohm; giant bat-winged gray cats (the Bat Cats); two mail pilots (mice); various mouse citizens and police; various cat citizens
First Line: Far above the town, the mail plane roars through the clear peaceful night sky on the last leg of a routine flight, when suddenly a strange gigantic creature looms up in front of it... Something that no pilot has ever seen before!
Synopsis: An epic adventure in four chapters pitting Mighty Mouse and his archenemy The Claw against an invading force of monstrous bat-winged gray cats from the planet Saturn. The Claw comes to Mighty Mouse in good faith, seeking aid against the terrifying alien-cats - a move that displeases The Claw's scientific ally Professor Ohm. Ohm double-crosses mice and cats alike, forging a secret alliance with the Saturnians.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: This story was originally known as "The Raiders From Saturn", an unofficial title that never actually appeared as part of the story itself, but was derived from the cover caption of the story's original printing in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 Series) #35 (November 1952). The story was published untitled.

For this Gold Key reprint, Western Publishing provided a new “Mighty Mouse” logo, added the title “The Invasion of the Bat Cats” to the opening splash panel, and produced its own coloring for this story.

The new coloring rendered the formerly green "Raiders From Saturn" as primarily colored in varying shades of gray for their revised identity as “The Bat Cats”.
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The Lava Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; citizens of Mountain Village (mice); lava men; Professor Adam (name changed from "Professor Edam"); Professor Adam's assistant; The Claw; Professor Ohm; citizens of Claw Territory (cats); troops of Cat Army
First Line: Help! The mountain's exploding!
Synopsis: Lava Men, flaming bipedal creatures from "another world beneath the crust of the Earth", emerge from suddenly-created volcanoes and proceed to overrun and destroy the territories of both mice and cats. Mighty Mouse finds these magma-made monsters too hot to handle.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: This story was titled "At Grips with the Lava Men" for its original printing in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 Series) #40 (April 1953).

For this Gold Key reprint, Western Publishing provided a new “Mighty Mouse” logo, shortened the title to “The Lava Men”, and produced its own coloring for this story.

Western also edited the story from its original 14 pages, down to 12 pages, to fit within the standard 32 interior pages of the prevailing format, thus allowing it to back up the 20 page "Bat Cats" lead story.

The entire original page four was omitted. Also deleted were page 7 panels 4-5, page 8 panel 4, page 9 panel 5, page 10 panels 1-3. The remaining panels were reformatted over several pages to accommodate this surgical editing.

The new coloring rendered the formerly orange Lava Men as solidly-colored as a consistent shade of brown.

Most inexplicable of all was the renaming of Professor Edam (a recurring mouse-scientist character in the St. John comics - and whose name was a "cheese-pun") to "Professor Adam". Two panels were re-lettered by Western to accomplish this. Yet, when the character appeared in subsequent Gold Key reprints of St. John material, in issues #163-164, he was properly referred to as "Professor Edam".
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Shears-Ka-Bob

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; café owner; female diner
First Line: Hey, buddy! This hedge could use a trimming!
Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle clip the hedges of an outdoor café, and derive some culinary benefits while doing so.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New story. Black and white on inside back cover.
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Helping Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse
Synopsis: Mitzi's backyard hammock cannot fully stretch between two trees. Enter Mighty Mouse.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New story. Pantomime. Color on back cover.

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