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Issue: Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat #48
Publication Date: December 1953
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Issues: #48 of 42 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagToby
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Indicia Publisher: Toby Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions:  
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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FlagFelix the Cat #48 published January 1954 as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Running A-FOWL of a Rooster

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; rooster
Synopsis: A rooster catches Felix snatching eggs from a nest.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: All of the background art is painted, with Felix, the rooster, and three eggs being the only penciled and inked art. Uncertain if Messmer did the painting. The penciled and inked art is his.
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Public Elations

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; El Ropo Cigar president; El Ropo Cigar vice president; line of applicants; cop on the beat; farmer; cow; crows; long line of city spectators; farmer's wife; farmer's boarders; fireflies; chauffeur
First Line: I must get a job today!
Synopsis: Ambitious Felix runs an aggressive advertising campaign for El Ropo Cigars.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Lead story of the issue starts on interior page two, as page one is used for an ad.
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The Farmer's... Helper?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; Farmer Brown; chickens; horse; cows
First Line: I'll try for a job on this farm!
Synopsis: Trying to help down-on-his-luck Farmer Brown, Felix does more inadvertent harm and good.
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Pages: 6
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Gabby for Mayor

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Gabby
Character(s): Pokey Pig; Gabby the Hen; Babby the Sheep; Flub the Pup; Mable the Cow; Johnny Squirrel; Billy the Goat; Harry the Horse; Mike the Mule; Omar the Owl; Felix the Cat; two pigeons; bull; swan; duck; Gabby's ten chicks
First Line: One day Pokey Pig had a great idea.
Synopsis: Pokey Pig and Gabby the Hen compete in a popularity contest to become honorary mayor of the barnyard. Pokey runs aggressively, while the normally talkative Gabby sits back on her nest "hatching" her campaign strategy.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Three spot illustrations by Otto Messmer punctuate this text story.

Felix the Cat appears as a minor, incidental character in what is otherwise a Pokey Pig story.
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Magician's Assistant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Kokey Koala
Character(s): Kokey Koala; stage magician
First Line: I will need an assistant!
Synopsis: Kokey Koala volunteers to act as a stage magician's assistant, and saves the act when things go wrong.
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Pages: 2
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Uranium is Where You (Don't) Find It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; Prospector Joe; Pistachio (prospector's mule); assayer; cricket
First Line: Oh, no! Not again!
Synopsis: Felix and Prospector Joe go uranium hunting, eschewing finds of diamonds and gold in their unsuccessful efforts.
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Pages: 8
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Finding a Fish that Fits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Donny Boy
Character(s): Donny Boy; fish
First Line: I know just the spot to go fishing!
Synopsis: Boy Scout Donny Boy throws back a larger fish in favor of one that better fits his frying pan.
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Pages: 1
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Apple... Sourced?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Inky
Character(s): Inky; Pokey Pig
Synopsis: Inky climbs up a tall apple tree to pick an apple, which he throws to the ground in order to climb down. Before he can reach the ground, Pokey Pig spies and eats the apple leaving a puzzled Inky to stare at the apple core.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pantomime.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Messmer; Joe Oriolo ?
Penciller(s): Otto Messmer; Joe Oriolo ?
Inker(s): Otto Messmer; Joe Oriolo ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Felix the Cat
First Line: Oh, no! Not again!
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Pages: 1

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