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Issue: Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat #101
Publication Date: January 1959
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Issues: #101 of 57 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Harvey Comics [Stamp]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1958
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: All reprint issue. Interior comic content is all reprint.
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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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Flying Fisherman

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat
Synopsis: Felix catches some elusive flying fish by "fighting flying with flying".
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Michael Morgan.

Cover redrawn as cover of The Nine Lives of Felix the Cat #5.
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Felix the Cat in Toyland

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; The Professor (not the character from the Felix the Cat television cartoons)
First Line: Gee! It's great living with The Professor! His toy shop is the cat's meow!
Synopsis: Felix tries to make himself useful around The Professor's toy shop.
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Pages: 1
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Quite a Doll

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; woodpecker; jack-in-the-box; Dolly; Captain Bully
First Line: Thank goodness, The Professor has gone to sleep! You never know what to expect with a scientist around!
Synopsis: Unable to sleep thanks to The Professor's many inventions, Felix sneaks into Blinkie's Department Store after closing time. Settling down in the toy department (dubbed "Toyland"), Felix finds that the toys come alive at night. A villainous wooden toy soldier, Captain Bully, kidnaps Dolly (a cute blonde doll) and locks her in the tower of a toy castle. It's Felix to the rescue!
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Felix asks a suddenly-sentient jack-in-the-box how toys can speak: "All of us toys speak! We just wait till the humans go home before we hold our conversations!"

This story uses a variation on the standard "Felix the Cat Harvey Comics Logo" where the words "the Cat" are plainly lettered in black with no depth or coloring.

A reworking of many of the elements of the lead story in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954) titled "Felix the Cat and the Merry Midgets", which was reformatted from the "Merry Midgets" continuity of Otto Messmer's original Felix newspaper strips of 1939.

Differing from Messmer's original story, the villainous wooden toy soldier here is named "Captain Bully", while in Messmer's original he was called "Cap Woody". Also, in Messmer's original, there are no references to the tale taking place in a department store.

Part One of Three.
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What's Cooking?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Kitty; Julius
First Line: No wonder you're a cook in the largest restaurant in town, Julius! This rice pudding is delicious!
Synopsis: Kitty gets a restaurant recipe for rice pudding from cook Julius, and follows it to the letter.
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Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: Shares the page with the "Felix the Cat Magazine Survey".
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Felix the Cat Magazine Survey

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; Kitty; Inky; Dinky; Flub the Pup; The Professor (not the character from the Felix the Cat television cartoons); Pussyfoot
First Line: Hi, friends! How'd you like to see your name in my magazine?
Synopsis: Felix hosts a reader survey, masquerading as a contest, about the characters and features appearing in his magazine - in which "...the lucky winner will have his name printed in a future issue of Felix the Cat".
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Disclose Notes: A full figure of Felix the Cat looks to have been drawn by a Harvey staff artist, rather than by Oriolo or Messmer. Floating heads of Kitty, Inky and Dinky, Flub the Pup, The Professor, and Pussyfoot are from repurposed art by Oriolo or Messmer.

The questions are as follows:

1. "My favorite story in the issue is... (check one)" The individual chapter titles of the three-part Felix the Cat story about "Toyland" are offered as selections - but none of the other stories in the book.

2. "My two favorite friends of Felix are... (check 1st and 2nd choices)" Offered selections consist of Kitty, Inky and Dinky, Flub the Pup, The Professor, and Pussyfoot.

3: "I like Felix the Cat because..." Space is provided for a short answer.

The survey asks for name, age, address, city, and state.

As Harvey's Felix title had become primarily all-reprint by this time, it's very likely that the "Felix the Cat Magazine Survey" was simply reprinted along with the Kitty story above it - reprinting the page as a whole.

Lower 1/4 of page.
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All Gummed Up

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Flub the Pup
First Line: Gee! Imagine getting 75 cents just for driving this truck to Centerville!
Synopsis: Flub the Pup has a blowout while driving a truckload of bubble gum.
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Pages: 1
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Battle of Wits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; Dolly; Captain Bully; Toyland army (wooden soldiers)
First Line: Don't worry, Dolly! I'll save you!
Synopsis: Felix saves Dolly from Captain Bully and his army of wooden soldiers by fighting toys with toys, using a jack-in-the-box, a boomerang, a toy clown with clashing cymbals, and a bowling set.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Nice Touch: While they are after Felix, the wooden soldiers are drawn as "marching" but, when Felix "bowls them over" like bowling pins, they become stiff, wooden, and unable to move.

The "department store backdrop" is not forgotten as Captain Bully rages: "I'll follow you to the ENDS OF THE DEPARTMENT STORE!"

This story uses a variation on the standard "Felix the Cat Harvey Comics Logo" where the words "the Cat" are plainly lettered in black with no depth or coloring.

A reworking of many of the elements of the lead story in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954) titled "Felix the Cat and the Merry Midgets", which was reformatted from the "Merry Midgets" continuity of Otto Messmer's original Felix newspaper strips of 1939.

Differing from Messmer's original story, the villainous wooden toy soldier here is named "Captain Bully", while in Messmer's original he was called "Cap Woody". Also, in Messmer's original, there are no references to the tale taking place in a department store.

Part Two of Three.
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Call It a Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; Dolly; Captain Bully; toy department manager
First Line: Gosh, this is fun going through Toyland with you, Dolly!
Synopsis: Felix takes Dolly for a ride in a toy airplane only to be brought down by Captain Bully, who recaptures Dolly. Felix effects an unconventional rescue of the doll using a ball attached by a rubber band to a paddle.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This story chapter uses the standard "Felix the Cat Harvey Comics Logo", where the other story chapters had used a variation.

A reworking of many of the elements of the lead story in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954) titled "Felix the Cat and the Merry Midgets", which was reformatted from the "Merry Midgets" continuity of Otto Messmer's original Felix newspaper strips of 1939.

Differing from Messmer's original story, the villainous wooden toy soldier here is named "Captain Bully", while in Messmer's original he was called "Cap Woody". Also, in Messmer's original, there are no references to the tale taking place in a department store.

In Messmer’s 1939 strip version, “Cap Woody” attacks Felix and Dolly’s plane with a rocket barrage, until the Merry Midgets blow up his weapons cache and rout the villain with a large angry ostrich. Felix and Dolly land safely and Dolly is never recaptured. The story then moves on to an encounter with a giant, which formed the basis for the later story appearing in Harvey's Felix the Cat #74 (1956 - and reprinted in #110, 1960).

The Merry Midgets were also not part of this revised version.

Part Three of Three.
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Tailor-Made

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky the Porcupine; Fenwick Fox
First Line: Porky the Porcupine looked up at the sign over his shop and sighed a deep sigh.
Synopsis: Porky the Porcupine is ready to close his tailor shop, due to a lack of pins, until the obvious solution occurs to his friend Fenwick Fox.
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Pages: 0.75
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Now on TV

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): ABC Television Network; Casper the Friendly Ghost
Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; Big "H" Kid
First Line: Casper the Friendly Ghost
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Ad for Casper the Friendly Ghost appearing on ABC TV's new show Funday Funnies. Ad is on a half-page below the second column of the previous text story.
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His Honor, Franklin Frog

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Franklin Frog; old hop-toad; other frogs
First Line: Franklin was different than the other frogs in the marsh.
Synopsis: A series of accidents result in Franklin Frog becoming the mayor of the frog community.
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Chock-Full of Fun and Food...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Harvey Comics; Little Lotta
Character(s): Little Lotta
First Line: Meet the World's Biggest Little Girl with the biggest Funny Stories
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Harvey Comics house ad for Little Lotta. Lower 1/4 of page.
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Picture Star

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Pussyfoot and Flub
Character(s): Pussyfoot; Flub the Pup
First Line: Gee, I'd love to kick this football around!
Synopsis: Flub can't play football with Pussyfoot anymore because he's now a "moving picture actor".
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Pages: 4
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Stumbling Blocks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Inky; Dinky; Kitty; burglar
First Line: Wake up, Aunt Kitty!! Wake up!
Synopsis: A burglar sneaks into Inky and Dinky's room, but there's no cause for alarm.
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Pages: 1

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