Merry Mouse #1

Merry Mouse takes on a singing telegram delivery job, heading to the mansion of the well-to-do Miss Patricia Gotdough with a birthday song to perform—but he arrives to find the place crawling with burglars who've taken the household hostage. Determined to complete his assignment no matter what chaos erupts around him, Merry keeps launching into his song despite the gang's best efforts to stop him, with unexpectedly heroic results.

A young mouse finds a cute striped kitten and decides to keep it as a pet, teaching it tricks and feeding it a vitamin pill to help it grow stronger—but when a real tiger escapes from the city zoo, things get delightfully complicated. Written and illustrated in classic funny-animal style, "Tiger Kitty!" is a charming romp where a harmless game of training turns into an accidental capture that saves the day.

Merry Mouse heads out to sell kitchen appliances door-to-door, but his sample case gets swept up by museum movers and mistaken for African artifacts—complete with a cursed tom-tom that sets off a wild chain of events. Before long, our determined salesman finds himself shipwrecked in the heart of Africa, face-to-face with a witch doctor and some very hungry locals who have dinner plans. With nothing but his wits and his appliance demonstrations, Merry Mouse has to figure out how to turn this cannibal territory into his best sales opportunity yet.

Merry Mouse stumbles onto a movie set filming a Western in his quiet town and jumps at the chance to act, grabbing a prop gun and throwing himself into the action alongside the film crew—only to realize the "movie" he's been starring in might be far more real than he bargained for. Packed with slapstick humor and references to classic Western pictures, this tale of mistaken movie magic will have you laughing at every turn.

When Merry Mouse agrees to deliver a sculptor's prized statue to an exhibition, a mishap transforms the artwork into something unexpectedly different. What begins as a disaster might just turn into something far more interesting than anyone expected.

Merry Mouse plans to impress Matilda with flowers from the garden, but his romantic gesture hits a snag when he arrives late to their meeting—and things get even more complicated when an armed robber crashes the scene. Watch as our hero finds himself caught between an angry sweetheart and a desperate crook in this 1953 tale by Frank Carlin.