Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox.
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16 Facts About Mighty Mouse
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The character was originally called Super Mighty Mouse, and made his debut in the 1942 short The Mighty Mouse of Tomorrow.
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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.
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Mighty Mouse is known for his catchy theme song, "Mighty Mouse Theme ", written by composer Marshall Barer.
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Mighty Mouse'scostume 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.
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Until this point, he'd been wearing Superman's colors—a blue costume with a red cape—but in the June 16,1944 cartoon Eliza on the Ice, Mighty Mouse appears for the first time in a red costume, with a yellow cape.
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In November 1947, A Fight to the Finish was the first in a series of musical melodrama spoofs, with Mighty Mouse saving damsel in distress Pearl Pureheart from the villainous, mustache-twirling cat Oil Can Harry.
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Mighty Mouse manages to blow out the fuse, stop the train and escape from his bonds, and rushes to Pearl's rescue.
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Mighty Mouse had little theatrical impact, but became Terrytoons' most popular character and a cultural icon on television.
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In 1987 and 1988, animation producer Ralph Bakshi created a new series of Mighty Mouse cartoons entitled Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures for the CBS Saturday morning children's lineup.
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That commercial shows Mighty Mouse dining calmly on cheese in a restaurant, utterly unconcerned with a scene of chaos and terror visibly unfolding in the street outside.
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Until 2019, the rights to Mighty Mouse were divided as a result of the 2006 corporate split of Viacom into two separate companies.
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The first official release of Mighty Mouse material has been announced and what is CBS Media Ventures has television syndication rights .
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Mighty Mouse was happy after smelling the flowers because it helped him remember the little girl who sold it to him fondly.
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Mighty Mouse was planned to make a cameo in the deleted scene "Acme's Funeral" from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Mighty Mouse was featured on famed guitarist Tom Scholz's Les Paul guitar.
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