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Issue: Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat #110
Publication Date: July 1960
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Issues: #110 of 57 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/15/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: All reprint issue. Interior comic content is all reprint. A "Giants" theme runs through the entire issue, with the exception of the "Inky and Dinky" story. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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A Really "Hot" Dog!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; anthropomorphic hot dog
Synopsis: An angry hot dog jumps from its bun to bark at Felix.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credit from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10666), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credit the pencils and inks to "Joe Oriolo ?"

New cover for an issue of reprints.
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Feet of Bravery?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat
First Line: What nonsense! - Everyone knows there's no such thing as a giant!
Synopsis: Felix talks pretty brave about fighting giants, until he spies a huge pair of feet coming around a corner.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10667), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited both to "Joe Oriolo ?"
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Giant Size

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; The Merry Midgets [Tic, Tac, and Toe]; giant
First Line: Golly, am I bored!
Synopsis: Bored with the cozy life of a housecat and craving adventure, Felix inadvertently summons the Merry Midgets (Tic, Tac, and Toe) who whisk him off to "Fableland" and an encounter with a giant.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: 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 Merry Midgets (Tic, Tac, and Toe) speak here in rhyme, similar to Walt Disney's Bucky Bug and the Dell/Gold Key version of Beep Beep the Road Runner.

Part One of Three.
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No Fun at the Fun House!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Kitty; fun house barker; giant
First Line: Gracious! - I haven't been to one of those places since I was a kitten!
Synopsis: Kitty bonks her head while in a carnival fun house and dreams she's entered a giant's castle.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10668), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credit both to "Joe Oriolo ?"

According to Felix expert and historian David Gerstein, author of "Nine Lives to Live a Classic Felix Celebration by Otto Messmer" (1996, Fantagraphics Books), Messmer did some pencil art during the Harvey run - but with different inkers, so his work here less reflects his more classic works of the newspaper strip and the Dell and Toby Press comics. Per indexer's personal conversation with David Gerstein (2022).

The "dream giant" in this story (presumably drawn by Messmer) more closely resembles the giant of Messmer's original story than does Joe Oriolo's giant of our main story.
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Tale of a Shoe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; The Merry Midgets [Tic, Tac, and Toe]; giant; Felix's mistress
First Line: Won't you join us three in this giant cup of tea?
Synopsis: While Felix's mistress looks for her missing cat, Felix and the Merry Midgets are captured by the giant.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: 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.

Part Two of Three.
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Flyin' High

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; The Merry Midgets [Tic, Tac, and Toe]; giant; Felix's mistress
First Line: How do you do? And just how good are things with you?
Synopsis: Felix and the Merry Midgets escape, thanks to the giant's pepper-induced super-sneezes. The midgets glide away atop playing cards (as seen in Messmer's original story) and Felix is sneeze-expelled from Fableland and blown back home through the mistress' living room hanging picture - which is ripped apart by the cat's reentry. Blaming Felix for the damage, the mistress throws him out leaving him homeless once again.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: 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.

Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10670), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited both to "Joe Oriolo ?" Inks might be Oriolo over Messmer's pencils.

Part Three of Three.
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In the Swim

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Henrietta Hen; Henrietta's little ducklings; Teresa Turkey; Claudia Cow; Marrieta Mule
First Line: All the barnyard folk knew that old Henrietta Hen was very nearsighted, but even so -- to make such a mistake!
Synopsis: Nearsighted Henrietta Hen adopts a family of little ducklings, raising them as if they were her own. Complications ensue when the ducklings begin swimming.
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Pages: 1
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Fat Chance

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Regina Rabbit; Franklin Fox; Horace Hippo; Sylvester Squirrel
First Line: The citizens of Greenwood Valley were buzzing with excitement, for that day the animal community was getting a new citizen - And what's more, he was coming all the way from Africa!
Synopsis: In an early instance of what we would now call "fat-shaming", huge Horace Hippo arrives in Greenwood Valley and is ridiculed and scorned for his size by the smaller and more fleet-of-foot animals of the community -- until a great flood occurs and "big, fat, foolish-looking" Horace (as he's described in the story) proves his value as a rescuer.
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Felix's Dishonorable Discharge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Felix the Cat; captain; admiral; various sailors; cannibals
First Line: Felix, aboard a Navy battleship finds himself being the boat's floor mat...
Synopsis: Felix escapes the Navy battleship he unwittingly boarded by hiding in an empty artillery shell, which is fired off the ship. Unfortunately, the cat-containing shell lands Felix on an island of cannibals.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Art and coloring simulate a black-and-white television program. Continued from issue #109 and continued in issue #111.

A reworking of several of the elements of a story titled "Felix the Cat Modern Jonah" in Felix the Cat Winter Annual (Toby, 1954 Series) #2 (Winter 1954), which was reformatted from an original Otto Messmer Felix newspaper strip continuity of the 1930s.

Good Double-Entendre: Felix is concerned for his safety aboard this floating instrument of war:
FELIX: "Golly! A cat's life isn't WORTH A DIME aboard a busy battleship like this!" ...This line is not in Messmer's original story.
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To the Moon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Inky; Dinky; Kitty; two guys in gas masks
First Line: Look Inky! It says here the moon is made of hydrogen, oxygen and other minerals!
Synopsis: Inky and Dinky argue over the composition of the Moon, with each determined to prove himself right.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits from Michael Morgan via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10671), 2016-08-26; the previous indexer credited both to "Joe Oriolo ?" Inks might be Oriolo over Messmer's pencils.

The only story in this issue that breaks with the overall theme of "giants".

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