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Issue Details

Issue #504
Published October 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
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Notes Indicia title is "KRAZY KAT, No. 504." Code number is K.KAT O.S. #504-5310. Copyright 1953 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. "Adapted from the famous newspaper comic feature "Krazy Kat," originally created by Herriman." Second of five Krazy Kat Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

2 page Krazy Kat text story "Krazy Kat, Inventor"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Taking Offissa Pupp's advice, Krazy invents a better mousetrap.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front and inside back covers; black and white. Text story with two illustrations.

12 page Krazy Kat story "The Smartest Kat in the World"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Ignatz gives Krazy a vase he finds in the dump. It is a magic vase and a genie appears. Krazy wishes to be smart and dazzles everyone with his intelligence. Unfortunately the pressure of people wanting his expert advice mounts and Krazy ends up wishing to be dumb again, and the genie returns him to his old self.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

8 page Krazy Kat story "Ignatz Makes a 3-D Movie"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Ignatz hires some Indians and makes a 3-D western movie with Krazy as cameraman.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

6 page Krazy Kat story "The Not-Scared Crow"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse
Synopsis Ignatz hires Mr. Crow to pretend to be afraid of the scarecrow he sells Krazy.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

6 page Ignatz Mouse story "The White Mice Circus"

Characters Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Ignatz paints himself with white paint to be able to join a circus comprised entirely of white mice.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Krazy Kat story "A Too-Realistic Painting"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse
Synopsis Ignatz gives Krazy a painting of a brick that's so lifelike the brick falls on Krazy's head after he hangs the painting on the wall.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Back cover. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)