Yesterday, we had a Mighty Mouse commercial. Here's a Mighty Mouse cartoon. Yeah, I know. I stopped liking Mighty Mouse cartoons when I was around seven, too. But there's some funny animation in here of goofy wolves…and it's the early, skinnier Mighty Mouse instead of the later, pumped-up one who always looked like he was getting steroids in his Velveeta. It's worth six minutes and eleven seconds of your time and besides, it's free.
Mighty Mouse, in case you didn't know, was called Supermouse in his first seven cartoons. The name was changed not because of litigation from the Superman people — although that might have come eventually — but because there was another Supermouse in existence in a comic book. When those first cartoons were rereleased later, the name was overdubbed and otherwise changed. As a kid watching them on TV in the fifties, I used to always wonder why the sound was so weird on some of them. That's why.
This was the twelfth in the series. It was released 6/22/44, it's called "Wolf! Wolf!" and what more can I tell you? Oh, yeah. The announcer is Tom Morrison, who was the big house voice and also a storyman at the Terrytoons Studio, from whence this came. He often did the voice of Mighty when Mighty had a voice but sometimes it was a guy named Roy Halee. Also, you should know that the opening titles you'll see were put on when the cartoon played on TV. The original cartoon opened with much classier title cards which probably got this one off to a better start when it played in theaters.
Stand back. Here it comes…
