Friday Fun FUNNY TUNES "Space Mouse in 'Mister Fix-It' " and "Peter Rabbit in 'Parking Space!' "

Let's get back to non-disease-oriented humor...

...with a decidedly Earth-bound Space Mouse one-pager...

...and an oddly space-bound Peter Rabbit short!

I'd say somebody gave the artist for these pieces from Avon's Funny Tunes #1 (1953) the wrong scripts...except the writer and artist are the same person...Frank Carin!

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Land of the Giants!"

While the similarly-named 1960s-70s tv series had some "juvenile" (to put it politely) stories...

...they didn't even come close to being this silly!

So, the heroic Space Mouse just wanted to go somewhere and "make out" with his girlfriend?

Creator/writer/artist Frank Carin might want to reconsider the example this tale from Avon's Peter Rabbit #30 (1955-56) set for impressionable young children of the 1950s!

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Genius at Work" & "Great Hero"

Besides the four-color stories in the book, the b/w inside covers were used for one-page features...

...although this first one, with its' vaudeville-level humor could've been used for any character...and probably previously had by writer-artist Frank Carin!

The second one shows something unusual in that Space Mouse apparently runs an interplanetary gas station in his spare time!

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Both these never-reprinted one-pagers are from Avon's Space Mouse #1 (1953), which cover-features a different space beauty pageant story!

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Tasty Planet"

Along with comic tales, comic books ran text features...

...in order to qualify as magazines and get special low mailing rates!

Here's the never-reprinted story from Avon's Space Comics #4 (1954)!

It reads like it was probably written by series creator Frank Carin.

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Hunter"

The Dreaded Deadline Doom caught up with us this week...

...so we're re-presenting the first Space Mouse story we ran last year, right after a slew of Martian related posts celebrating the 80th Anniversary of Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which explains the following caption...

Thought the Martian invasion stuff was over for the year?

Guess again, Earthling!

Even funny animals battled Martians!

Not a Dream!

Not a Hoax!

Not an Imaginary Story!

(though it is the ending of the movie Invaders from Mars, which came out the year before this never-reprinted tale from Avon's Space Comics #4 [1954] appeared!)

If I were a cynical sort, I'd say writer/artist Frank Carin copped that finale...

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Fleischer Story

A history of the Cartoon Studio in the Golden Age of Film Animation

(covering the studio where Frank Carin got his start)

Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE & PETER RABBIT "Cold Reception"

Occasionally, Space Mouse would team up with Peter Rabbit...

...as seen in this never-reprinted summer-oriented story from Avon's Peter Rabbit #18 (1953)!

Since writer-artist Frank Carin did both strips, and the Mouse and Rabbit appeared in backups in each other's books, it seemed only appropriate they occasionally visit each other's strips!

BTW, I apologize for the poor color registration on the pages, but this was the only scan available, and, as I pointed out, this story has never been reprinted, so there was no better source material to work from!

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Flying Saucers"

It was the 1950s, and this was a sci-fi (albeit funny animal) strip...

 ...so it was inevitable they'd do at least one tale about...FLYING SAUCERS!

Of course, if they hauled the suitcase/vehicle to the newspaper office, the editor might have believed them...
Writer/artist Frank Carin told this never-reprinted tale of space, saucers...and suitcases in Avon's Space Mouse #1 (1953)!
And you gotta admit, he had a way of making such an implausible concept as "suitcase/flying cars" work, even if the script reads like a "best of vaudeville" compilation!
And no, I'm not explaing what "vaudeville" was!
If you're not old enough to remember (and I am), Google it!

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Reservation to the Moon!"

Sometimes the heroic Space Mouse ventured into outer space to fight menaces...

...sometimes the menaces commuted to Earth!

And, sometimes, very rarely, there is no menace...just misunderstood alien visitors!

Writer/artist Frank Carin told this never-reprinted tale of misinterpreted Moon-people motives in Avon's Peter Rabbit #31 (1956)!

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