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Issue: Mighty Mouse #164
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/01/1965
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10010-507. On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Bird of Doom!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, superhero
Mighty Mouse (cover element illustration); Mighty Mouse (inset illustration); Bird of Doom
Mighty Mouse takes desperate action to destroy The Bird of Doom!
Mighty Mouse fights the Bird of Doom with a battleship.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
New cover for an issue of reprints.
Undesirable Character

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Little Roquefort; Percy Puss
What's that contrivance, may I ask?
Percy is ejected from the house by his own giant slingshot.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Black and white on inside front cover.
The Bird of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
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?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, superhero
Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; Professor Edam; members of Professor Edam's research team; cat-spy; The Claw; Professor Ohm; various members of The Claw's gang; Bird of Doom (giant bird); stuffy battleship admiral; various battleship crew members
Deep among the burning wastes of the desert, a research party led by the world-famous mouse scientist, Professor Edam, has made a tremendous discovery.
Professor Edam's archeological expedition unearths a tremendous egg from beneath the Egyptian desert. Tipped-off by a cat-spy, The Claw and Professor Ohm forcibly take the egg, hatching the "Bird of Doom" inside, and raise the bird to combat Mighty Mouse.
Reprinting
FlagPaul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #39 published March 1953
was The Bird of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
16
However soft-pedaled in the art, the Bird of Doom is uncharacteristically killed on-panel.

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, superhero
Mighty Mouse; Bonzo (elephant); python; deer; alligator; pigmy with blow-gun; two hungry tigers; pigmy tribe; The Desert Gang (army of large talking gorillas) three hungry lions; goat; camels; two little rabbits, hungry fox
Chapter I – Many savage beasts lurk in the deep jungles of darkest Africa and it would be a sad life indeed for the smaller creatures if they did not have a dauntless defender constantly patrolling the jungle paths...
Mighty Mouse protects the smaller creatures of the jungle from larger predators and thwarts the aggressive alliance of hostile pigmies and the Desert Gang, an invading army of large talking gorillas.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
16
For this Gold Key reprint, Western Publishing provided a new “Mighty Mouse” logo, and lettered the title “Jungle Terror” in a more modern-style within a newly-added rectangular panel at the upper left corner of the opening splash panel, and also produced its own coloring for this story.

Nice touch: Mighty Mouse suspects a habitually hungry alligator of small animal ingestion. When he questions the gator, it feigns innocence with a “symbolic halo” over his satisfactorily-smiling head. But Mighty Mouse props open the creature’s gaping jaws… and, in reverse order, out come running a rabbit, monkey, jungle bird, deer, and zebra! The zebra, pictured as “first-out”, is largely cut-off by the panel border indicating the possibility of still more animals ahead of it, fleeing the alligator’s innards.
Mail Order Mayhem

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; mailman
Don't tell me you're writing for more things through the mail!
Fed up with Gandy's mania for ordering different objects through the mail, Sourpuss decides to burn Gandy's latest package arrival with the trash.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Black and white on inside back cover.
Mighty Mouse Pin-Up

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, superhero
Mighty Mouse; Bird of Doom
Mighty Mouse fights the Bird of Doom with a battleship.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The front cover image is repeated on the back cover, sans logo and all cover copy. Also sans the Mighty Mouse inset illustration.

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