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Issue: Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics #54
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #54 of 50 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagSt. John
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Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Comic content is all reprint. While sporting a new cover, this issue reprints the interior comics content of Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 Series) #62 (April 1949).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Belling the Cat - Mighty Mouse Style

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; cat
Synopsis: Mighty Mouse "rings the bell" of a carnival strength tester by propelling a cat up to the top, where the cat abruptly meets the bell.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New cover for an issue of reprints.
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Why Just Wish for the Things You Want?

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Make extra money! It’s easy-fast-and FUN, too!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for selling Christmas cards for Wallace Brown, Inc. Black and white ad on inside front cover.
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Saved at the Sawmill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Pearl Pureheart; Oil Can Harry
First Line: Episode 3 At the old Beaver River Station, we find the helpless Pearl bound and gagged, a victim of Oil Can Harry.
Synopsis: Oil Can Harry kayos Mighty Mouse with a spray gun of DDT, and ties him to the railroad tracks as a train approaches. Mighty Mouse frees himself, has a swordfight with Harry, and saves a "log-tied" Pearl from the whirling blades of a sawmill in the nick of time.
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From Content Item: FlagMighty Mouse Comics #10 published April 1949
was Episode 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This reprint of the THIRD entry of the "Perils of Pearl Pureheart" subseries is suitably melodramatic, as entries in the series go, but is far from as outrageously absurd as later examples of the series would become.
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Foiling the Fox

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; little chick; lots of disbelieving chickens; goat; Snaggletooth (fox); costume store proprietor
First Line: I just saw him! I saw him with my own eyes!
Synopsis: A little chick sees Mighty Mouse flying overhead, but none of the other chickens believe that there is such a being as "Mighty Mouse". In a slight switch on the "Chicken Little" fable, Snaggletooth the fox rents a Mighty Mouse costume and hoaxes the chickens into believing that "the sky is falling". Entering (rather clumsily) disguised as Mighty Mouse, Snaggletooth plans to lead the chickens away from the danger of the "falling sky" and into his stew pot.
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From Content Item: FlagMighty Mouse Comics #10 published April 1949
was Foiling the Fox [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Meta Moment: As the disguised Snaggletooth bursts heroically into the chickenyard, he paraphrases Mighty Mouse's signature phrase by saying: "Here I am to save the day!".
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The Snow Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; Johnny (Mitzi's nephew); Snowman (in dream sequence); Bill (Mighty Mouse's childhood friend in dream sequence); Bob (Mighty Mouse's childhood friend in dream sequence); Terrible Tom (cat in dream sequence)
First Line: Johnny sat on the window seat in his bedroom with his nose pressed flat against the pane.
Synopsis: Little Johnny, Mitzi's nephew, is too excited by the outside snowfall, and the fun he will have playing in it tomorrow, to fall asleep tonight. Mighty Mouse tells him the story of a dream the hero once had about a childhood winter experience.
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From Content Item: FlagMighty Mouse Comics #10 published April 1949
was The Snow Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: According to this story, Mighty Mouse did not possess any superpowers a a boy.
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Ski Meet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; lots of skiing mice; skiing cat; other cats
First Line: The great champion of justice speeds down a snowy slope outside of Terrytown in answer to a call for help --
Synopsis: When a cat joins a ski race for mice, Mighty Mouse sticks around to see that things remain on the up-and-up. ...Guess what? They don't!
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From Content Item: FlagMighty Mouse Comics #10 published April 1949
was Ski Meet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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"Yesterday I Knew Nothing About Music... Today I'm Actually Playing!"

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (black and white photos)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): woman playing a piano
First Line: Over 900,000 people have taken up this quick, easy way to learn music.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering music lessons for many different instruments (piano, guitar, accordion, violin, and clarinet are among those named)... "without suffering through a dull training period first". "Lessons cost only a few cents each, including sheet music." Four adults with quotes endorsing this enterprise are seen in black and white photos.
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Who Is Mighty Mouse?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Character(s): Mighty Mouse; Atlas Mighty Mouse; (ancestor of Mighty Mouse); Don Quixote Mouse; (ancestor of Mighty Mouse); Sir Bois De Breathless Mouse (ancestor of Mighty Mouse and featured character in this story); medieval townspeople; king; wise men; scullery maids; knights; one brave knight [Sir Bois De Breathless Mouse]; Dracula Dragon; royal blacksmith
First Line: Is the great mouse real?
Synopsis: The story of Mighty Mouse's ancestor, Sir Bois De Breathless Mouse - our hero's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather, and his mighty battle with the feared Dracula Dragon to save an oppressed kingdom.
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From Content Item: FlagMighty Mouse Comics #10 published April 1949
was Who is Mighty Mouse? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Jim Tyer depicts the battle as nearly four full pages of prime comic absurdity, culminating with Sir Bois cutting off the dragon's head, only to have it grow back... repeatedly - with dragon heads flying all over the place accompanied by the following caption: "...But our brave lad will not surrender and eight hundred and sixty seven horrible heads bite the dust. (Count 'em.)"

Additional Tyer Touch: As our brave knight strides resolutely toward Dracula Dragon's lair, he is first met by a series of warning billboard signs, and then by the skeletal remains of previously-vanquished knights. As the remains grow more plentiful with each step, Tyer gives us three skeletons hanged - with the tops of the hangman's ropes tied to the top border of the panel!

A similarly-titled - but different - story exists in Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics (St. John, 1951 Series) #25 (April 1951).
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Buzz Baxter Rides Again!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Buzz Baxter; Dan; Sarge; pretty girl at finish line
First Line: Jumpin' Jona! My bike's gone, Dan... The lock's been filed!!
Synopsis: Buzz Baxter's racing bike is stolen by the "East High Gang", shortly before the big bicycle marathon between completing high schools. Friend Dan directs Buzz to sell all-occasion greeting cards from Artistic Card Co. In just two weeks, thanks to his ambitious salesmanship, Buzz has enough money for a newer, better, faster racing bike with which he wins the marathon for good ol' "West High".
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering money for the sales of all-occasion greeting card assortments from Artistic Card Co. On final interior page of the comic.
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New! 1954 "Space Commander" Vibro-Matic Walkie-Talkies

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: 2 phones only $1
Synopsis: Consumers Mart
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering a pair of walkie-talkies for one dollar, promising "Thrills & Fun Galore!" Black and white ad on inside back cover.
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Men-Women-Boys-Girls Prizes Given

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Make money too!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering prizes or money for the sales of "inspiring, beautiful religious wall motto plaques". Color ad on back cover.

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