Space Mouse

An Avon-published oddity from the early 1950s, Space Mouse squeezed five issues of intergalactic hijinks out of a premise that sounds more like a one-joke cartoon than a comic series. Writer Carl Wessler and artist Frank Carin were the primary hands on this title, which followed a plucky, pointy-eared mouse as he rocketed through space—often outwitting larger alien threats and getting into the kind of slapstick trouble that defined the era's funny-animal comics. Though brief, the series is a curious artifact of science fiction's golden age, blending anthropomorphic charm with the atomic-age fascination with outer space.