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Issue Details

Issue #619
Published April 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "KRAZY KAT, No. 619." Code number is K.KAT O.S. #619-554. Copyright 1955 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Based on the "Krazy Kat" newspaper strip by George Herriman.

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).

1 page Krazy Kat story "The Good Luck Horseshoe"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Krazy finds a horseshoe, but it only brings bad luck to Ignatz.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

10 page Krazy Kat story "The Sea Chase"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Krazy builds a boat, but Ignatz steals it and holds up on a little island. Offissa Pupp pursues in a motorized speedboat, but finds that the island is not in his jurisdiction.
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 "The Mystery Rider"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp; Mister Meeyow; Mrs. Kwakk-Kwakk
Synopsis Krazy decides to become "the Mystery Rider, the phantom-type cowboy" and fight crime in Kokonino.
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 the Volunteer Fireman"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Offissa Pupp gets caught in a tree while trying to dislodge its last leaf. Ignatz is part of the volunteer fire department and gets Offissa Pupp down. Ignatz later makes a nuisance of himself by putting out a pile of burning leaves and dousing a fire in a fireplace.
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).

5 page Ignatz Mouse story "The Ice Brick Machine"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Ignatz promises to build Offissa Pupp a new room for his jail, but the bricks he uses to build it are made of ice.
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).

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Look For These Dell Comics"

Characters Beetle Bailey (cameo); Jungle Jim (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Promo for Beetle Bailey Four Color #622 (April 1955) and Jungle Jim (Dell, 1954 series) #5 (April-June 1955). The cover depicted for Beetle Bailey has different colors than the actual issue and the cover for Jungle Jim is a line-drawing of the painted cover.

1 page Krazy Kat story "The Woodpecker"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse
Synopsis Krazy catches a woodpecker to use to peck a hole in the door to the catnip factory.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Krazy Kat story "No Place is Safe"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Krazy sits under a palm tree and Offissa Pupp shows him that he might get hit by the tree's coconuts. Krazy then sits under a different tree, only to get hit by a brick dropped by Ignatz.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Back cover; pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).