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 392


Super Mighty Mice


There was a time in the 1950s when both Supermouse and Mighty Mouse were published by the same company. Pines Comics took over Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse from St. John, and Supermouse was continuing from being under the Standard Comics logo to publisher Ned Pines' final comic book imprint, Pines Comics.

For some reason the issues of Mighty Mouse during this era had no numbering. This story is from the July, 1957 issue; the Supermouse strip is from the 100-page giant, Supermouse Summer Holiday Issue #1, published for summer, 1957.