The first short under the character's new name was The Wreck of the Hesperus, released February 11, 1944, adapting the celebrated poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the addition of a superhero mouse. In 1944, Paul Terry learned that another character named "Super Mouse" was to be published in Standard Comics' Coo-Coo Comics, so his character's name was changed to Mighty Mouse. The hero made seven films in 1942–1943 before his name was changed. In Pandora's Box (1943), he battled bat-winged cat demons, and his origin story was changed: now he becomes Super Mouse by eating vitamins A through Z. In Super Mouse's next film, he spoofed the popular Universal Monsters films ( Frankenstein's Cat, 1942). In the operatic melodramas to follow, Halee and his quartet provided all of the vocals. Super Mouse (and his later alias, Mighty Mouse) was originally voiced by Roy Halee Sr., a tenor who often sang on radio and first started doing cartoon voices for J. Idea of super-rat conquering prowling beasts of feline world is good, but too closely follows pattern of that super hero." The trade journal Variety said The Mouse of Tomorrow "just misses being outstanding, mainly because of faulty narration and too much kidding of Superman. Returning to earth, he is hoisted on the shoulders of his happy comrades, as the narrator declares, "Thus ends the adventure of Super Mouse. Super Mouse soars to the rescue of his fellow mice and dispatches the neighborhood cats to the moon. His costume is like Superman's, with a flowing red cape, and his powers are similar, too: He can fly through the air and repel bullets with his chest. He examines the goods on the long lines of shelves and sets to work on a total transformation: He bathes in Super Soap, swallows Super Soup, munches Super Celery and plunges head first into an enormous piece of Super Cheese - from which he emerges in a flash as Super Mouse! He's no longer a tiny rodent, but a two-footed, humanized mouse with a massive chest and powerful biceps. One mouse manages to escape from a particularly hungry cat and runs for shelter into an enormous supermarket. The mice have barely a chance to live in peace, with endless traps and clever feline footwork sealing their doom. In his book Of Mice and Magic, critic Leonard Maltin describes the character's origin story:Ĭats of the city have imposed a reign of terror on the rodent community. The character was dubbed "Super Mouse", and his first theatrical short, The Mouse of Tomorrow, debuted on October 16, 1942. Paul Terry, the head of the studio, liked the idea but suggested a mouse rather than an insect. The character originated in 1942 from an idea by animator Isadore Klein at the Terrytoons studio, who suggested a parody/homage to the popular Superman character, making some sketches of a superhero fly. Mighty Mouse is known for his theme song, "Mighty Mouse Theme (Here I Come to Save the Day)", written by composer Marshall Barer. Mighty Mouse also appeared in comic books by several publishers, including his own series, Mighty Mouse and The Adventures of Mighty Mouse, which ran from 1946 to 1968. Filmation revived the character in The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, which ran from 1979 to 1980, and animation director Ralph Bakshi revived the concept again in Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, from 1987 to 1988. In 1955, Mighty Mouse Playhouse debuted as a Saturday morning cartoon show on the CBS television network, which popularized the character far more than the original theatrical run. The name was changed to Mighty Mouse in his eighth film, 1944's The Wreck of the Hesperus, and the character went on to star in 80 theatrical shorts, concluding in 1961 with Cat Alarm. The character is a anthropomorphic superhero mouse, originally called Super Mouse, and made his debut in the 1942 short The Mouse of Tomorrow. Mighty Mouse is an American animated character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. Patrick Pinney ( Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures).Alan Oppenheimer ( The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle).Roy Halee (theatrical cartoons, singing).Tom Morrison (theatrical cartoons, speaking).
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