Showing posts with label mouse. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Mighty Mouse A Clue in the sky 1951
Created as a new character for the New York based “Terrytoons” cartoon studio by Izzy Klein, Mighty Mouse didn’t start out as a mouse, but a fly.
Terrytoons was founded in 1929 by animator Paul Terry (photo below) after he left the Fables studios, which he and his partner van Beuren had set up to produce their Aesop Fables cartoon series. Together they had produced their very first cartoon with sound in September 1928 called “Dinner Time”, a month before Disney’s “Steamboat Willy” was widely released with synchronized sound.
Of the many characters that Terrytoons created, their cartoon series featuring “Heckle & Jeckle” and “Mighty Mouse” are probably still best known today.
Terrytoons licensed their characters and turned them into comic book favorites with the help of several publishers. Timely comics, as Marvel was called in the early days, published the first four Mighty Mouse books, after which the small publishing company St. John Publications, founded by Archer St. John, took over from issue 5.
Terrytoons licensed their characters and turned them into comic book favorites with the help of several publishers. Timely comics, as Marvel was called in the early days, published the first four Mighty Mouse books, after which the small publishing company St. John Publications, founded by Archer St. John, took over from issue 5.
Timelys "Terrytoons" comics were produced in-house under the editorship of Vince Fago but the
St. John comics had art by actual Terrytoons animators as Jim Tyer, Conrad Rasinski and Art Bartsch.
63 issues would follow between 1947 and 1955. Later on, Dell Comics and Gold Key would continue this series. St. John Publications only existed as comic publisher for eleven years, from 1947 to 1958. After that they continued with magazines until 1967.
St. John comics had art by actual Terrytoons animators as Jim Tyer, Conrad Rasinski and Art Bartsch.
63 issues would follow between 1947 and 1955. Later on, Dell Comics and Gold Key would continue this series. St. John Publications only existed as comic publisher for eleven years, from 1947 to 1958. After that they continued with magazines until 1967.
The scans below are from issue 49 from August 17, 1951 which originally contains the Mighty Mouse stories, “A Clue in the sky” and “Wilbur the Weakling”, with a Gandy Goose short “The Magic Touch” and a single page of the “Terry bears”. Ill post the second story later this week!
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Floyd Gottfredsons Mickey Mouse Vol 3
If there is only one book youre gonna get this year, then make sure its this one. Coming next week from Fantagraphics is the third volume in their collection of Floyd Gottfredsons classic Mickey Mouse comic newspaper strips. This new volume collects nine classic Mickey stories by Gottfredson, originally published between January 10, 1934 and January 4, 1936 with scripts by Ted Osborne (except for The Captive Catsaways, which was written by Merril de Maris) and inks by Ted Thwaites.
It also includes some of Gottfredsons full color paintings, a couple of behind-the-scenes looks and other extra features, including a Mickey short by Fredrico Pedrocchi from December 1937. Heres the full list of classics:
- The Captive Castaways (January 10, - April 17, 1934)
- Plutos Rival (April 18 - April 28 1934)
- The Bat Bandit of Inferno Gulch (April 30 - July 28, 1934)
- Bobo the Elephant (July 30 - October 13, 1934)
- The Sacred Jewel (October 15 - December 29, 1934)
- Pluto the Racer (December 31, 1934 - March 2, 1935)
- Editor-in-Grief (March 4 - June 1, 1935)
- Race for Riches (June 3 - September 28, 1935)
- The Pirate submarine (September 30, 1935 - January 4, 1936)
Above: a beautifully rendered scene from The Captive Castaways (click to enlarge). By the way, the release date for Volume 4 appears to have been set for October 24, so if you can hold your breath that long, you should definately get the collected set, which also appears by then, containing both volume three and four in a nice slipcase. Check out the pics below, but remember, these editions are not yet part of Fantagraphics official promotion for the series, so theres no link I can share with you at this time to provide more info.
Logically, the next volume continues from 1936 on and will include classics such as The Seven Ghosts (published between August 10 and November 28, 1936) and great stories such as Mickey Mouse joins the foreign Legion and Island in the Sky (published between November 30, 1936 and April 3, 1937) for which Gottfredson created this full color painting in 1979 (click to enlarge):
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