Number 954


Here he comes to save the day...


Jim Tyer did these stories, didn't he? I've had trouble in the past identifying Tyer, who has been represented in this blog a few times. Fans of his work in animation and comics have been kind to remind me that I haven't given him credit, so I hope I'm right this time.

David Miller did the scans from Paul Terry's Comics #125. Thanks, Dave.

Besides Mighty Mouse, Dave provided the hilarious Heckle and Jeckle episode from the same issue. The over-polite talking magpies appear to be inspired by the early 20th Century comic strip, Alphonse and Gaston, by Frederick Burr Opper.















There was a Mighty Mouse Saturday morning animated cartoon from our friends Ralph Bakshi and John K. (see his blog here). With all due respect to Andy Kaufman's pantomime of the Mighty Mouse theme song, I thought the a capella version of that theme song from that show was the best, so I've included the YouTube clip of the one minute opening.

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I've always been fascinated by this "miniature dog" ad that ran in comics for a time, and which appeared in this issue of Paul Terry's Comics.

Did anyone ever receive one of these dogs? How did they ship the dogs so they arrived alive at their destination? After doing some research on the company I found that in 1960 they were issued a cease and desist order by the Federal Trade Commission for false advertising.

Number 751


The Talking Magpies


This Heckle and Jeckle story is from an unnumbered issue of The Adventures of Mighty Mouse, July, 1957. (Since TAOMM had three or four publishers over the decades, someone at the Grand Comics Database has figured out that it's actually #134.) I posted the Mighty Mouse lead story from this issue in Pappy's #392.

This is dedicated to my former coworker, Mike, who was as exasperated as the rest of us by our boss, a man of many moods, all of them bad. "He's a regular Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Heckle!" Mike once said of him.

I posted a hilarious Heckle and Jeckle story by John Stanley from the Gold Key incarnation of this comic in Pappy's #422.

There's another funny Heckle and Jeckle story at Big Blog Of Kids' Comics here.

Number 422


Two by Stanley


We've got a double dose of John Stanley today. I woke up Monday morning and said, "I've got to see some Walt Kelly and some Stanley this week," so here we are. Check back to Monday's posting for the Kelly.

Sluggo is a character just made for Stanley. He's the kid who makes it by himself, an orphan in a big world. He's also hated by his neighbor, Mr. McOnion. The story is from Tip Top Comics #220, 1959.

I got the Heckle and Jeckle story from Gold Key's Mighty Mouse #172, dated 1980, but it's reprinted from a 1960 comic. I think Stanley got the essence of the characters very well. The panel of the guy in bed with a bugle caught me by surprise. How did Stanley come up with this stuff? Not only in this strip, but over and over again, story by story, comic book by comic book, year after year. What an amazing writer John Stanley was.