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{{Short description|American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse}}
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{{Infobox character
| name = Mighty Mouse
| series = [[Terrytoons]]
| image = Mighty Mouse.png
| caption = Mighty Mouse, as appeared in the 1940s theatrical shorts made by the [[Terrytoons]] studio for [[20th Century Fox]] 
| first = ''Mouse of Tomorrow'' (1942)
| last = 
| creator = [[Paul Terry (cartoonist)|Paul Terry]]<br>Izzy Klein
| voice = {{ubl|[[Roy Halee]] (theatrical cartoons, singing)<ref name="CartoonVoices">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-70 Vol. 1 |date=3 October 2022 |publisher=BearManor Media |page=757 |language=en}}</ref>|[[Allen Swift]] (''Mighty Mouse's First Adventures'')<ref>{{cite web |title=Mighty Mouse’s First Adventure (Sort of) – on Records {{!}} |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mighty-mouses-first-adventure-sort-of-on-records/ |website=cartoonresearch.com |access-date=14 December 2024}}</ref>|Tom Morrison (theatrical cartoons, speaking)|[[Alan Oppenheimer]] (''[[The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle]]'')|[[Patrick Pinney]] (''[[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'')}}
| species = Mouse
| gender = Male
}}

'''Mighty Mouse''' is an American animated character created by the [[Terrytoons]] studio for [[20th Century Fox]]. He is an [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] [[superhero]] [[mouse]], originally called Super Mouse, and made his debut in the 1942 short ''The Mouse of Tomorrow''. 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''.

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 show lasted until 1967. [[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.

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.

Mighty Mouse is known for his theme song, "Mighty Mouse Theme (Here I Come to Save the Day)", written by composer [[Marshall Barer]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nolan |first1=Frederick |title=Obituary: Marshall Barer |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marshall-barer-1174694.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marshall-barer-1174694.html |archive-date=May 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=February 24, 2020 |work=The Independent |date=August 29, 1998}}</ref>

==History==

===Super Mouse===
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. [[Paul Terry (cartoonist)|Paul Terry]], the head of the studio, liked the idea but suggested a mouse rather than an insect.<ref name=terry-ch18>{{cite book |last1=Hamonic |first1=W. Gerald |title=Terrytoons: The Story of Paul Terry and His Classic Cartoon Factory |date=2018 |publisher=John Libbey Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-0861967292 |pages=207–223 |chapter=Here I Come to Save the Day!: The Mouse that Saved a Cartoon Studio, 1942-1945}}</ref>

The character was dubbed "Super Mouse", and his first theatrical short, ''The Mouse of Tomorrow'', debuted on October 16, 1942.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/110/mode/2up |pages=110–111}}</ref>

In his book ''Of Mice and Magic'', critic [[Leonard Maltin]] describes the character's origin story:

{{Blockquote|Cats of the city have imposed a reign of terror on the rodent community. The mice have barely a chance to live in peace, with endless traps and clever feline footwork sealing their doom. One mouse manages to escape from a particularly hungry cat and runs for shelter into an enormous supermarket. 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. 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. Super Mouse soars to the rescue of his fellow mice and dispatches the neighborhood cats to the moon. Returning to earth, he is hoisted on the shoulders of his happy comrades, as the narrator declares, "Thus ends the adventure of Super Mouse... he seen his job and he done it!"<ref name=magic>{{cite book|last1=Maltin|first1=Leonard|title=Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons|date=1987|publisher=Plume Books|location=New York|isbn=0-452-25993-2|pages=141–147|edition=Revised}}</ref>}}

The trade journal ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' said ''The Mouse of Tomorrow'' "just misses being outstanding, mainly because of faulty narration and too much kidding of Superman. Idea of super-rat conquering prowling beasts of feline world is good, but too closely follows pattern of that super hero."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Mouse of Tomorrow |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=December 2, 1942 |page=8 |url=https://archive.org/details/variety148-1942-12/page/n7/mode/2up |access-date=February 22, 2020}}</ref>

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 [[John Randolph Bray|J. R. Bray]]'s studio. In the operatic melodramas to follow, Halee and his quartet provided all of the vocals.<ref name=terry-ch18/>

In Super Mouse's next film, he spoofed the popular [[Universal Monsters]] films (''Frankenstein's Cat'', 1942). 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.<ref name=terry-ch18/> The hero made seven films in 1942–1943 before his name was changed.

===Mighty Mouse: rename and redesign===
[[File:Mighty Mouse (original blue version).png|thumb|upright|left|Mighty Mouse, as the character originally appeared, wearing a costume reminiscent of Superman's.]]
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.<ref name=toon>{{cite web |last1=Markstein |first1=Don |title=Supermouse, the Big Cheese |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/suprmous.htm |website=Toonopedia |access-date=February 15, 2020}}</ref> The first short under the character's new name was ''The Wreck of the Hesperus'', released February 11, 1944, adapting [[The Wreck of the Hesperus|the celebrated poem]] by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] with the addition of a superhero mouse. A couple months later, the studio spoofed another classic, [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'', under the title ''Mighty Mouse Meets Jeckyll and Hyde Cat''.

By summer, Mighty Mouse's costume got an overhaul as well. 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. This is also the first time that the character was portrayed as living among the stars, hurtling down from the heavens to save the day.<ref name=terry-ch18/>

The final design of the character debuted in the 15th cartoon, ''The Sultan's Birthday'', released on October 13, 1944. In this cartoon, redesigned by animator [[Connie Rasinski]], Mighty Mouse has a fuller figure with an exaggerated upper body, and is clad in a yellow outfit, with a red cape and trunks.<ref name=terry-ch18/>

Like his inspiration, Superman, Mighty Mouse's [[superpower (ability)|superpowers]] are vast and sometimes appear limitless. His main powers include flight, super-strength and invulnerability. The early cartoons often portray him as a ruthless fighter; one of his most frequent tactics is to fly under an enemy's chin and let loose a volley of blows, subduing the opponent through sheer physical punishment.

However, his powers can vary, depending on the demands of the story; he is sometimes knocked unconscious or rendered temporarily immobile by the villain, only to rise again by the end of the cartoon and save the day. In some films, he uses [[X-ray vision]] and [[psychokinesis]]. He was also able to [[Time travel|turn back time]] in 1946's ''The Johnstown Flood''. Other cartoons, like 1945's ''Krakatoa'', show him leaving a red [[contrail]] during flight that he can manipulate like a band of solid, flexible matter. In several of the cartoons, when Mighty Mouse achieves the impossible feats, the narrator exclaims, first in a normal voice: " What A Mouse!!!!!", followed by his louder triumphant voice: "WHAT A MOUSE!!!!!"

In a 1969 interview, Terry said that Mighty Mouse's power had a religious aspect: "When a man is sick, or down, or hurt, you say, 'There's nothing more we can do. It's in God's hand.' And he either survives or he doesn't according to God's plan. Right? So, 'Man's extremity is God's opportunity.' So, taking that as a basis, I'd only have to get the mice in a tough spot and then say, 'Isn't there someone who can help?' 'Yes, there is someone; it's Mighty Mouse!' So, down from the heavens he'd come sailing down and lick the evil spirit, or whatever it was. And everything would be serene again." Biographer W. Gerald Harmonic notes that as of the mid 40s, Mighty Mouse would be pictured living on a star or a cloud, up in the heavens, and that he became "a Christ-like figure, a savior of all 'mouse-kind'."<ref name=terry-ch18/>

While his typical opponents are nondescript cats, Mighty Mouse occasionally battles specific villains, though most appear in only one or two films. Several of the earliest "Super Mouse" films (having been made during [[World War II]]), feature the cats as thinly veiled caricatures of the [[Nazism|Nazis]], hunting down mice and marching them into [[Internment#Concentration camp|concentration camp]]–like traps to what would otherwise be their doom. The Bat-cats, alien cats with bat wings and wheels for feet, appeared in two cartoons; in two others between 1949 and 1950 he faces a huge, dim-witted, but super-strong cat named Julius "Pinhead" Schlabotka (voiced by [[Dayton Allen]]) whose strength rivals Mighty Mouse's. In rare moments, he confronts non-feline adversaries such as human villain Bad Bill Bunion and his horse, or the Automatic Mouse Trap, a brontosaur-shaped robotic monster. In ''The Green Line'' (1944), the cats and the mice live on either side of a green dividing line down the middle of their town's main street. They agree to keep the peace as long as no one crosses it. An evil entity, a [[Satan]] cat, starts the cats and mice fighting. At the end, Mighty Mouse is cheered by mice and cats alike.

===Melodrama spoofs===
In 1945, ''Mighty Mouse and the Pirates'' was the first Mighty Mouse cartoon to feature sung dialogue, in the [[operetta]] style. ''[[Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life|Gypsy Life]]'' (1945) and ''The Crackpot King'' (1946) followed in the same style.<ref name=terry-ch18/> ''Gypsy Life'' was particularly successful, earning Terry his third nomination for an [[Academy Award]] for Short Subjects (Cartoon).<ref>{{cite web|title=18th Academy Awards|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |publisher=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 14, 2012|year=1946}}</ref>

There was a romantic, [[damsel in distress]] element in these cartoons—in each one, Mighty Mouse saves a dark-haired beauty from terrible trouble, and in the latter two, the camera fades out on the hero and the girl in a romantic clinch. While these were very similar to the musical [[melodrama]] spoofs that were soon to emerge, they didn't have an overwrought narrator, or the suggestion that the cartoon is an episode of a continuing story.

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 (sometimes "Little Nell") from the villainous, mustache-twirling cat Oil Can Harry. Terrytoons revived the concept from their earlier [[Fanny Zilch]] series, a melodrama spoof that ran for seven cartoons from 1933 to 1937. Fanny was constantly tormented by a human version of Oil Can Harry, and protected by her lover, J. Leffingwell Strongheart.

''A Fight to the Finish'' begins with a snatch of [[Cole Porter|Cole Porter's]] song "And The Villain Still Pursued Her", which had also been used as the theme for the Fanny Zilch cartoons. The narrator opens with an urgent recap of the (nonexistent) previous episode: "In our last episode, we left Mighty Mouse at the old Beaver River station. As you remember, folks, he was locked in a desperate struggle with a villain. But on with the story..." Mighty Mouse is engaging in "a fight to the finish" with Oil Can Harry, now a villainous cat with a mustache, a top hat and a big black cloak, voiced by Tom Morrison.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Markstein |first1=Don |title=Oil Can Harry |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/oilcan.htm |website=Don Markstein's Toonopedia |access-date=February 10, 2020}}</ref> The blonde heroine, Pearl Pureheart, is tied up in the other room, but refuses to give up hope. Harry manages to knock out Mighty Mouse, and leaves him tied to the railroad track with a bomb on his head, and the 5:15 train due to pass by. Harry drives Pearl away to his home, where he woos her in song, to no avail. Mighty Mouse manages to blow out the fuse, stop the train and escape from his bonds, and rushes to Pearl's rescue. At Harry's house, they fight with fists, guns and swords, as Pearl slips out the window and onto a passing log which is floating down the river into a mill. Mighty Mouse throws Harry into the river and rushes to rescue Pearl, who's heading for the buzzsaw. The narrator asks, "Is our little heroine doomed to destruction in the sawmill? Will Mighty Mouse arrive in time? See the following episode, next week!" The camera starts to iris out, but then stops, as the narrator relents, "Stop! Gosh, we can't wait until next week. Please, show us what happens, won't you?" Mighty Mouse grabs Pearl in time, and the pair have a brief romantic chorus together as the cartoon delivers a happy ending.

The melodrama spoofs continued as an occasional series over the next six years, with Oil Can Harry and Pearl Pureheart returning in thirteen more cartoons. Another memorable short was 1949's ''The Perils of Pearl Pureheart'', in which Oil Can Harry hypnotizes Pearl into singing "[[Carry Me Back to Old Virginny]]" on stage at an old saloon, where he vacuums up the tips thrown by the audience. Hypnotized for three and a half minutes of the six-minute cartoon, Pearl continues to sing as the battle between Harry and Mighty Mouse rages around her, even underwater.

To vary the formula, the melodramas started traveling to exotic locales, including Italy (''Sunny Italy'', 1951), Switzerland (''Swiss Miss'', 1951), Holland (''Happy Holland'', 1952) and even prehistoric times (''Prehistoric Perils'', 1952) and medieval times (''When Mousehood Was in Flower'', 1953).

The fourteen Oil Can Harry melodrama theatricals were:

* ''A Fight to the Finish'' (1947)
* ''Loves Labor Won'' (1948)
* ''The Mysterious Stranger'' (1948)
* ''Triple Trouble'' (1948)
* ''A Cold Romance'' (1949) 
* ''The Perils of Pearl Pureheart'' (1949)
* ''Stop, Look and Listen'' (1949)
* ''Beauty on the Beach'' (1950)
* ''Sunny Italy'' (1951)
* ''Swiss Miss'' (1951)
* ''Prehistoric Perils'' (1952)
* ''Happy Holland'' (1952)
* ''A Soapy Opera'' (1953)
* ''When Mousehood Was in Flower'' (1953)

===Television===
====''Mighty Mouse Playhouse''====
{{Main | Mighty Mouse Playhouse}}
Mighty Mouse had little theatrical impact, but became Terrytoons' most popular character and a cultural icon on television. In 1955, Paul Terry sold the Terrytoons studio to [[CBS]], which repackaged the theatrical cartoons as a popular Saturday morning show, ''Mighty Mouse Playhouse''. The show aired from December 1955<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodriguez|first=Robert|title=The 1950s' most wanted the top 10 book of rock & roll rebels, Cold War crises, and all-American oddities|year=2006|publisher=Potomac Books|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-1-61234-030-2|url=https://archive.org/details/1950smostwantedt0000rodr|url-access=registration|quote=mighty mouse.|edition=1st|access-date=May 14, 2012|page=[https://archive.org/details/1950smostwantedt0000rodr/page/219 219]}}</ref> through September 1967, using the existing film library. Only three new cartoons were produced after the sale. The final season also included a new feature, entitled ''[[The Mighty Heroes]].''

Tom Morrison of Terrytoons provided the speaking voice of Mighty Mouse in the show's new framing sequences.

The show's theme song was credited on some early [[Gramophone record|records]] to "The Terrytooners, [[Mitch Miller]] and Orchestra". However, writer [[Mark Evanier]] credits a group called The Sandpipers (not the [[The Sandpipers|1960s easy listening group of the same name]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=Evanier|first=Mark|title=Sandpiper Stuff|url=http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2004_01_18.html#007948|work=News from Me (Archive)|access-date=March 9, 2013|date=January 18, 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524043713/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2004_01_18.html#007948|archive-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref>

====''The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle''====
{{Main | The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle}}
In 1979&ndash;1980, [[Filmation]] made television cartoons starring Mighty Mouse and fellow Terrytoon characters [[Heckle and Jeckle]] in a show called ''[[The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle]]''. The show introduced two new characters: a vampire duck named Quacula (not to be confused with [[Count Duckula]]), and Oil Can Harry's bumbling, large, but swift-running, henchman Swifty. The show premiered in 1979 and lasted two seasons. In the Filmation series and movie, Mighty Mouse and Oil Can Harry were performed by veteran voice artist [[Alan Oppenheimer]], and Pearl Pureheart was voiced by [[Diane Pershing]]. [[Frank Welker]] played Heckle, Jeckle and Quacula, and [[Norm Prescott]] played Theodore H. Bear.<ref name=Scheimer>{{cite book |last1=Scheimer |first1=Lou |last2= Mangels |first2=Andy |title=Creating the Filmation Generation |date=2012 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1-60549-044-1 |page=164}}</ref>

Each episode included two traditional ''Mighty Mouse'' cartoons, as well as an episode of a Mighty Mouse science-fiction serial, "The Great Space Chase". The hour was rounded out with two ''Heckle & Jeckle'' cartoons and one ''Quacula'' cartoon, plus short bumpers with tips about safety and the environment. The total cartoons produced for the series were 32 ''Mighty Mouse'' cartoons, 32 ''Heckle & Jeckle'' cartoons, 16 episodes of "The Great Space Chase" and 16 ''Quacula'' cartoons.<ref name=Scheimer/>

The "Space Chase" episodes were edited together into a theatrical matinee movie, ''[[Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase]]'', which was released on December 10, 1982.

====''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures''====
{{Main | Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures}}In 1987 and 1988, animation producer [[Ralph Bakshi]] (who began his career at Terrytoons in the late 1950s and worked on the last Mighty Mouse shorts filmed by that company) created a new series of Mighty Mouse cartoons entitled ''[[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'' for the [[CBS]] Saturday morning children's lineup. In this series, Mighty Mouse has a real identity, Mike Mouse (both identities voiced by [[Patrick Pinney]]), and a sidekick, [[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures#Cast|Scrappy Mouse]] (voiced by actress [[Dana Hill]]), the little orphan. Though a children's cartoon, its heavy [[Satire|satirical]] tone, risqué humor and adult jokes made the Bakshi Mighty Mouse series a [[Collectable|collector's item]] for collectors of older television series.

The best-remembered episode of this series featured a crossover with Mighty Mouse and another Bakshi creation, the Mighty Heroes (Strong Man, Tornado Man, Rope Man, Cuckoo Man and Diaper Man). In the 1988 episode "Heroes and Zeroes", the Mighty Heroes were middle-aged men (except for Diaper Man, who was 36) and were all accountants with the firm of Man, Man, Man, Man, and Man.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hero-A-Go-Go: Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters, & Culture of the Swinging Sixties|first=Michael|last=Eury|publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing|year=2017|page=117|isbn=9781605490731}}</ref>

====Later years====
[[Marvel Comics]] produced a 10-issue comic book series (set in the ''New Adventures'' [[Continuity (fiction)|continuity]]) in 1990 and 1991. Since then, little else new has been produced using the Mighty Mouse character except for a 2001 "The power of cheese" television commercial.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Power of Cheese, Mighty Mouse|url=http://adland.tv/commercials/cheese-mighty-mouse-2001-030-usa|publisher=America's Dairy Farmers|access-date=May 11, 2012|year=2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403115609/https://adland.tv/commercials/cheese-mighty-mouse-2001-030-usa|archive-date=April 3, 2015}}</ref> 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. The commercial was later removed from air following the [[September 11 attacks]].

The character appeared in the 1999 pilot ''Curbside'', voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/101602-Curbside|title=Curbside (Nickelodeon)|last=DataBase|first=The Big Cartoon|website=Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB)|language=en-US|access-date=November 28, 2018}}{{dead link|date=January 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Until 2019, the rights to Mighty Mouse were divided as a result of the 2006 corporate split of [[Viacom (2005–2019)|Viacom]] (the former owner of the Terrytoons franchise) into two separate companies. CBS Operations (a unit of the [[CBS Corporation]]) owns the ancillary rights and trademarks to the character, while Paramount Home Entertainment/[[CBS Home Entertainment]] holds home video rights. The first official release of Mighty Mouse material has been announced and what is now [[CBS Media Ventures]] has television syndication rights (the shorts are currently out of circulation). On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merged into a single entity, ViacomCBS (now [[Paramount Global]]), officially reuniting the rights to Mighty Mouse under the same company.

In 2017, during his 75th anniversary, Mighty Mouse made his return with a 5-issue comic book series produced by [[Dynamite Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comicsalliance.com/dynamite-mighty-mouse-fisch-lima/|last=Collins|first=Elle|title=Here He Comes: Dynamite Unveils New 'Mighty Mouse' Comic|website=[[ComicsAlliance]]|date=March 28, 2017|access-date=July 28, 2024}}</ref>

===Feature film adaptation===
As early as 2004, [[Paramount Pictures]] and [[Nickelodeon Movies]] announced their intention to bring Mighty Mouse back to the motion picture screen with a [[computer-generated imagery|CGI]] Mighty Mouse feature film that was tentatively scheduled to be released some time in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mighty Mouse on again at Paramount|url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/mighty-mouse-on-again-at-paramount.html|publisher=Cartoon Brew|access-date=May 11, 2012|first=Jerry|last=Beck|date=April 16, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721220306/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/mighty-mouse-on-again-at-paramount.html|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref>

In April 2019, Jon and Erich Hoeber signed on to script the film for [[Paramount Animation]] while [[Karen Rosenfelt]] (''[[Wonder Park]]'') and Robert Cort (''[[Terminator Genisys]]'') are set to produce. The film will be a live action/animated production.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2019/04/mighty-mouse-movie-paramount-animation-jon-hoeber-erich-hoeber-writing-meg-1202592891/ Here They Come, To Save The Day: Jon & Erich Hoeber To Script ‘Mighty Mouse’ For Paramount Animation]</ref> In November 2024, it was announced [[Matt Lieberman]] took over as the writer for the film with [[Ryan Reynolds]] as the producer and the voice of Mighty Mouse.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/11/mighty-mouse-soars-to-the-big-screen-at-last-at-paramount-with-ryan-reynolds-scoob-writer/|title=Paramount's 'Mighty Mouse' Soars to the Big Screen at Last with Ryan Reynolds & 'Scoob!' Writer|website=[[Animation Magazine]]|date=November 25, 2024|access-date=November 25, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/ryan-reynolds-free-guy-writer-matt-lieberman-mighty-mouse-movie-1236221984/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG2HEhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSPxbxiLk7yOrh2SFZ0Y0nIDhiVJB9BOea0S2yAYaN-8Gnx9nHcE5mqG9w_aem_v6m8am45_I7y2SLZ47gnPg|last=Lang|first=Brent|title=Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort, 'Free Guy' Writer Matt Lieberman Team With Paramount Animation for 'Mighty Mouse' Movie (EXCLUSIVE)|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 25, 2024|access-date=November 28, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/ryan-reynolds-mighty-mouse-movie-plan-deadpool-and-wolverine-good-op-ed/|last=Gibbons|first=Ben|title=Ryan Reynolds Reviving An 82-Year-Old Cartoon Superhero Is Great After Deadpool & Wolverine (& His $450M Role From 5 Years Ago)|website=[[Screen Rant]]|date=November 29, 2024|access-date=November 29, 2024}}</ref>

==Terrytoons theatrical shorts==
The first seven films starred the character named Super Mouse. In these early films the character's costume is much closer in design to that of Superman (blue tunic and tights with red trunks and cape).

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|-
! Release # !! Title !! Release Date !! Director !! Writer !! Producer
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 01
 | Title           = The Mouse of Tomorrow
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1942|10|16}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = [[John Foster (cartoonist)|John Foster]], Isadore Klein
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = In Mouseville, the town's cats capture all the mice except one, who escapes to a Supermarket, where he uses Super Soap, and eats Super Celery and Super Cheese, transforming into Super Mouse, who then vanquishes the cats and saves the mice of Mouseville.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 02
 | Title           = Frankenstein's Cat
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1942|11|27}}
 | DirectedBy      = Manny Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Bill Weiss
 | ShortSummary    = Super Mouse must rescue the mice from a monster cat brought to life by a strike of lightning.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 03
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1943|02|05}}
 | Title           = He Dood It Again
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Super Mouse protects a group of mice who like to eat and party at a local diner at night.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 04
 | Title           = Pandora's Box
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1943|06|11}}
 | DirectedBy      = [[Connie Rasinski]]
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Greek mythology provides the background as Super Mouse must battle bat-like cats to save a female mouse from the Troubles she unleashes from a box mysteriously dropped from the sky.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 05
 | Title           = Super Mouse Rides Again
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1943|08|06}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Cats battle a group of mice with everything imaginable (including Tommy guns) that only Super Mouse can thwart.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 06
 | Title           = Down with Cats
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1943|10|07}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Super Mouse comes to the rescue of some mice enjoying winter sports. The influence of World War II is evident in this film.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 07
 | Title           = The Lion and the Mouse
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1943|11|12}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Aesop's tale is reborn as Super Mouse faces a lion.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|}

In the eighth cartoon, the character's name was changed to Mighty Mouse.

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|-
! Release # !! Title !! Release Date !! Director !! Writer !! Producer
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 08
 | Title           = The Wreck of the Hesperus
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|02|11}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = An old captain and his daughter are caught at sea in a hurricane. Mighty Mouse saves the captain, his daughter and the ship's crew and receives a hero's tickertape parade.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 09
 | Title           = The Champion of Justice
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|03|17}}
 | DirectedBy      = Manny Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Bill Weiss
 | ShortSummary    = An elderly couple dies and leaves their fortune to some mice who had befriended them. Willy the Spender, a distant relative of the couple, vows to get the money away from the mice. (NOTE: The villain in this film is a human, rather than the usual cat. Also, Mighty Mouse uses a gun in the course of fighting the villain.)
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 10
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|04|28}}
 | DirectedBy      = Manny Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse rescues a group of mice who sought shelter from a storm but accidentally hid away in the laboratory of Dr. Jekyll and are threatened by his cat who has taken the Doctor's horrific formula.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 11
 | Title           = Eliza on the Ice
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|06|16}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse has to save Eliza from the clutches of Simon Legree in this story with characters named after those in Uncle Tom's Cabin. ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 12
 | Title           = Wolf! Wolf!
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|06|22}}
 | DirectedBy      = Manny Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = [[Little Bo Peep]] and her sheep are the victims in this story that tips the hat to the [[Pied Piper of Hamelin]] as Mighty Mouse goes up against the wolves with a jazz soundtrack.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 13
 | Title           = The Green Line
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|07|07}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mice and cats live in relative peace in a town divided in half by a green line until an evil spirit convinces the cats to cross the line. Mighty Mouse puts everything aright again.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 14
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse and the Two Barbers
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|09|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Terrytown is the setting for this need for Mighty Mouse to rescue the mice who are threatened by a gang of alley cats.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 15
 | Title           = Sultan's Birthday
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|10|13}}
 | DirectedBy      = [[Bill Tytla]]
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = World War II mixes with [[One Thousand and One Nights|The Arabian Nights]] as Mighty Mouse rescues a sultan's harem girl from the attack of cats on flying carpets.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 16
 | Title           = At the Circus
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1944|11|17}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse flies to the circus this time to rescue the cute highwire performer from the escaped lions.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 17
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse and the Pirates
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|01|12}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Pirate cats capture an island mouse princess who Mighty Mouse must rescue.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 18
 | Title           = The Port of Missing Mice
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|02|02}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = More pirate cats, this time in San Francisco as Mighty Mouse battles cats to save a group of sailor mice from their clutches.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 19
 | Title           = Raiding the Raiders
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|03|09}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Rabbits are the victims this time, and vultures are the villains that Mighty Mouse must vanquish.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 20
 | Title           = The Kilkenny Cats
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|04|13}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = City mice are forced to battle a gang of cats with military weapons, until Mighty Mouse arrives to save the day.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 21
 | Title           = The Silver Streak
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|06|08}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnell
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mice living in an old shack are safe under the protection of their dog, until the cats capture the dog and leave him on the train tracks as the Silver Streak bears down on him. Only Mighty Mouse can save everyone concerned while teaching the cats a leson.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 22
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse and the Wolf
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|07|20}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Three fairy tales are inverted as the Wolf tries to show how he takes all the blame unjustly. Spoofs Red Riding Hood, Little Bo Peep and the Three Little Pigs just to let Mighty Mouse take out the Wolf three times.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 23
 | Title           = [[Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life|Gypsy Life]]
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|08|03}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = The bat-cats are back. This time they kidnap a gypsy girl who Mighty Mouse must rescue while putting the bat-cats in their place.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 24
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse Meets Bad Bill Bunion
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|11|09}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse must save the saloon gal singer from the clutches of the outlaw Bad Bill Bunion.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 25
 | Title           = Krakatoa
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1945|12|14}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Dancing mouse Krakatoa Katie offends the island volcano which spews lava to punish the mice. A signal for help is received by a scientist, who drinks a potion and changes (a la Jekyll/Hyde) into Mighty Mouse who must stop the volcano's threat and set the island aright.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 26
 | Title           = Svengali's Cat
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|01|08}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A hypnotist cat forces a girl mouse to act as bait to lure other mice to be captured and eaten by the cats until Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 27
 | Title           = The Wicked Wolf
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|03|08}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = [[Goldilocks and the Three Bears]] get mixed in with the Wolf as Mighty Mouse must set everything right.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 28
 | Title           = My Old Kentucky Home
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|03|29}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Humans are the recipients of Mighty Mouse's help this time when the Wolf comes to collect the mortgage on the home of The Colonel and Nellie. A jockey promises to win the horse race and use the money to pay the mortgage. The Wolf plans to prevent the jockey from winning, but Mighty Mouse won't let that happen.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 29
 | Title           = Throwing the Bull
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|05|03}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A wealthy Spanish merchant offers a reward and marriage to his daughter to anyone who can defeat a bull. All comers fail, until Mighty Mouse enters the ring to win the fight and the merchant's daughter.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 30
 | Title           = The Johnstown Flood
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|06|28}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = In a re-imagining of the [[Johnstown Flood]], mice and dogs are caught in the devastating deluge as Mighty Mouse battles to rescue them while averting further disaster. 
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 31
 | Title           = The Trojan Horse
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|07|26}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A return to mythology, this time Troy (the mouse version) where the unsuspecting rodents take in a horse statue which hides cats within waiting to pounce. Mighty Mouse descends from Mount Olympus to save the day.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 32
 | Title           = Winning the West
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|08|16}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = American myth sets the stage this time as Mighty Mouse turns up in the old west to battle cats threatening pioneer mice.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 33
 | Title           = The Electronic Mouse Trap
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|09|06}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = An evil scientist cat invents a robot mouse trap that goes after all the mice in the city. The [[Atomic Age]] begins to make its presence known as Mighty Mouse must battle a robot powered by atomic bombs.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 34
 | Title           = The Jail Break
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|09|20}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Another story set in the classic American west. This time, Bad Bill Bunion returns to commit crimes until Mighty Mouse defeats him and send him back to prison at Alcatraz Island.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 35
 | Title           = The Crackpot King
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|11|15}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse must battle the insane cat king and his evil wolf wizard to rescue the fair damsel mouse in distress.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 36
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse and the Hep Cat
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1946|12|06}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = The fairy tale theme returns as a city of well-to-do suburban mice are lured to their demise by cats using the magic flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Mighty Mouse must help the mice who cannot help themselves.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 37
 | Title           = Crying Wolf
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|01|10}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A faithful sheepdog cares for the lambs under his care, but it's always the black sheep of the family that causes the problems and needs the help of Mighty Mouse when his practical jokes go awry.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 38
 | Title           = The Dead End Cats
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|02|14}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse must face down a 1930s-style mob of racketeer cats.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 39
 | Title           = Aladdin's Lamp
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|03|28}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = The Arabian Nights return as Mighty Mouse becomes involved with rescuing the daughter of [[Aladdin]] in this retelling of the story.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 40
 | Title           = The Sky Is Falling
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|04|25}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse rescues some barnyard animals who have been tricked by the fox into believing the sky is falling.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 41
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse Meets Deadeye Dick
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|05|30}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Back to the American western as the sheriff and the bad guy battle it out until Mighty Mouse arrives to finish the fight.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 42
 | Title           = A Date for Dinner
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|08|29}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A game of cat and mouse, until the cat catches the mouse. The mouse makes a promise to deliver an even better mouse if the cat will release him. When the mouse returns, dinner is...Mighty Mouse.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 43
 | Title           = The First Snow
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|10|10}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = In the winter, the rabbits are enjoying life when a fox shows up. They can handle him for a while, but when the baby bunnies are threatened, only Mighty Mouse can save the day.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 44
 | Title           = A Fight to the Finish
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|11|14}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = The spoofs of serial cliffhanger films begin as Oil Can Harry threatens Pearl Pureheart and Mighty Mouse must come to the rescue.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 45
 | Title           = Swiss Cheese Family Robinson
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|12|19}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Even superheroes need time off, and as the mouse version of [[The Swiss Family Robinson]] gets underway Mighty Mouse is enjoying a vacation on a beach somewhere. The Robinsons send a note in a bottle for help, which finds its way to Mighty Mouse and he quickly returns from vacation to save the mice.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 46
 | Title           = Lazy Little Beaver
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1947|12|26}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A young beaver runs away from home but soon discovers the world can be an unsafe place. Fortunately, Mighty Mouse will help him learn a lesson about work and sloth, safely.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 47
 | Title           = Mighty Mouse and the Magician
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|03|27}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A mouse village magician's show is interrupted by an invasion of cats. The magician bravely tries to hold off the cats, but they gain his wand and become invisible. Only Mighty Mouse with his powers can rout the cats and save the mice.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 48
 | Title           = The Feudin' Hillbillies
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|06|23}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse must settle a clan feud between the cats and the mice.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 49
 | Title           = The Witch's Cat
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|07|15}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A mouse Halloween party attracts a witch and her cat. Mighty Mouse, it seems, can be poisoned, but is revived by the rain to finish the job.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 50
 | Title           = Loves Labor Won
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|09|15}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Another operatic cliffhanger serial spoof with Oil Can Harry and Pearl Pureheart.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 51
 | Title           = Triple Trouble
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|09|30}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Another serial cliffhanger sets the stage as Mighty Mouse faces vultures while Oil Can Harry threatens the Colonel and kidnaps Pearl Pureheart.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 52
 | Title           = The Magic Slipper
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|12|02}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Cinderella is the framework for this retelling, with a wolf who might resemble Oil Can Harry and Pearl Pureheart as Cinderella. Of course, Mighty Mouse will set everything as it should be by the end of the story.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 53
 | Title           = The Mysterious Stranger
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|12|21}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A mortgage is at stake, but this time Oil Can Harry holds the deed to a circus, and wants the hand of Nell, the highwire performer. But everything Harry tries is foiled by a mysterious stranger in a trenchcoat. Who is that masked man?
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 54
 | Title           = The Racket Buster
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1948|12|26}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster, Tom Morrison
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Gangster cats return to threaten Mighty Mouse and Pearl Pureheart.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 55
 | Title           = A Cold Romance
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1949|04|10}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = It's the return of Little Nell this time, with Oil Can Harry as the villain against Mighty Mouse set at the North Pole.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 56
 | Title           = The Catnip Gang
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1949|07|22}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse battles the Catnip Gang, a group of cats that have escaped from jail.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 57
 | Title           = The Perils of Pearl Pureheart
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1949|10|11}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Oil Can Harry and Pearl Pureheart return, with Harry hypnotizing Pearl to sing at his saloon.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 58
 | Title           = Stop, Look and Listen
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1949|12|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Another melodrama operetta, with Oil Can Harry having tied Pearl Pureheart to the horns of a rampaging bull and Mighty Mouse to its tail as they are chased by a locomotive.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 59
 | Title           = Comic Book Land
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1950|01|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = In this Sourpuss/Gandy Goose cartoon, Mighty Mouse puts in a guest appearance by flying out of a Mighty Mouse comic book, within a dream, to save the day.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 60
 | Title           = Anti-Cats
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1950|03|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = To avoid a winter storm, a group of mice take refuge in a home with a hungry cat. Mighty Mouse dons his trenchcoat disguise to cause the cat no end of grief.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 61
 | Title           = Law and Order
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1950|06|23}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse rescues mice being sold as frozen treats by a gang of cats.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 62
 | Title           = Beauty on the Beach
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1950|11|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse faces down Oil Can Harry for the safety of Pearl Pureheart in an amusement park.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 63
 | Title           = Mother Goose's Birthday Party
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1950|12|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = All of Mother Goose's characters give her a party of honor, but when the Big Bad Wolf appears, only Mighty Mouse can save the party.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 64
 | Title           = Sunny Italy
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1951|03|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse and Oil Can Harry battle all across Italian history and geography for the affections of sweet Pearl Pureheart.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 65
 | Title           = Goons from the Moon
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1951|04|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Science fiction arrives with alien cats and bat-cats that want to capture the mice of TerryTown.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 66
 | Title           = Injun Trouble
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1951|06|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = The Colonel has mortgage trouble again, and sets out to strike it rich in gold to pay it off, but it never works out. Mighty Mouse will again rescue the Colonel.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 67
 | Title           = A Swiss Miss
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1951|08|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Another cliffhanger (literally) as Oil Can Harry threatens Pearl Pureheart in the Swiss Alps.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 68
 | Title           = The Cat's Tale
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1951|11|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A cat narrates this origin story about Mighty Mouse.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 69
 | Title           = Prehistoric Perils
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1952|03|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = 
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse, Oil Can Harry, and Pearl Pureheart time travel back to prehistoric times.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 70
 | Title           = Hansel and Gretel
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1952|06|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse battles the witch and her cat to save mouse versions of Hansel and Gretel.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 71
 | Title           = Happy Holland
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1952|11|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Oil Can Harry and Pearl Pureheart meet Mighty Mouse in Holland this time.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 72
 | Title           = Hero for a Day
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1953|04|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = A humble mouse dreams of being Mighty Mouse so he can impress the girl of his dreams, but the cats know the difference.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 73
 | Title           = Hot Rods
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1953|06|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Eddie Donnelly
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Teenage mice driving their hot rods get into trouble that only Mighty Mouse can fix.  ([[Technicolor]])
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 74
 | Title           = When Mousehood Was in Flower
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1953|07|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry, Bill Weiss
 | ShortSummary    = Taxes are at the heart of the troubles for the nobleman and his daughter Pearl. The Black Night (Oil Can Harry) wants the daughter's hand in marriage, and only Mighty Mouse can set things in order.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 75
 | Title           = A Soapy Opera
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1953|01|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Pearl Pureheart is the laundry maid beholden to Oil Can Harry, and only Mighty Mouse can rescue her.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 76
 | Title           = The Helpless Hippo
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1954|03|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse meets his match when he tries to rescue a baby hippo and discovers that every baby animal in the jungle wants him as their babysitter.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 77
 | Title           = The Reformed Wolf
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1954|10|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse convinces a wolf that carrots are preferable to mutton.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 78
 | Title           = Spare the Rod
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1954|01|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Paul Terry
 | ShortSummary    = Mighty Mouse must teach respect to a group of unruly mice children.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 79
 | Title           = Outer Space Visitor
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1959|11|01}}
 | DirectedBy      = Dave Tendlar
 | WrittenBy       = John Foster
 | Aux2            = Gene Deitch
 | ShortSummary    = Cheeseville is invaded by an infant, robot-like alien. Everyone thinks it's cute, until they learn that its parent plans to wipe out Cheeseville.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 80
 | Title           = The Mysterious Package
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1961|12|15}}
 | DirectedBy      = Mannie Davis
 | WrittenBy       = Bob Kuwahara
 | Aux2            = Bill Weiss
 | ShortSummary    = A mechanical monster is kidnapping the children of Mouseville. Mighty Mouse must go to the alien world to bring them back.
}}
|-
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber   = 81
 | Title           = Cat Alarm
 | Aux1            = {{Start date|1961|12|31}}
 | DirectedBy      = Connie Rasinski
 | WrittenBy       = Larz Bourne, Tom Morrison
 | Aux2            = Bill Weiss
 | ShortSummary    = The cats use Mighty Mouse to capture the mice of Cheeseville by making him believe the dam has burst and threatens the town. While trying to warn them, he sends the mice into the waiting clutches of the waiting cats.
}}
|}

==Comics==
Mighty Mouse's first comic book appearance was in ''Terry-Toons Comics'' #38 (November 1945), published by [[Timely Comics]].<ref name=FunnyAnimal-ch3>{{cite book |last1=Becattini|first1=Alberto|title=American Funny Animal Comics in the 20th Century: Volume Two |date=2019 |publisher=Theme Park Press |location=Seattle, WA |chapter=Super-Animals}}</ref> Mighty Mouse was featured in:

* ''Terry-Toons Comics'' #38–85 (1945–1951)
* ''Paul Terry's Comics'' #86–125 (1951–1955)

Mighty Mouse was also featured in two main titles by several different publishers: ''Mighty Mouse'' and ''The Adventures of Mighty Mouse''.

*''Mighty Mouse'', [[Timely Comics]] #1–4 (1946)
*''Mighty Mouse Comics'', [[St. John Publications]] #5–21 (1947–1949)
*''Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Comics'', [[St. John Publications]] #22–67 (1949–1955)
*''Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse'', [[Pines Comics]] #68–83 (1956–1959)
*''Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse Adventures'', St. John Publications #1 (1951)
*''Adventures of Mighty Mouse'', St. John Publications #2–18 (1952–1955)
*''The Adventures of Mighty Mouse'' (renaming of ''Paul Terry's Comics'', where Mighty Mouse appeared)
**St. John Publications #126–128 (1955); as ''Paul Terry's Adventures of Mighty Mouse''
**Pines Comics #129–144 (1956–1959)
**[[Dell Comics]] #144–155 (1959–1961) NOTE: Dell's series also started with an issue numbered 144
**[[Gold Key Comics]] #156–160 (1962–1963)
**Dell Comics #161–172 (1964–1968)
*''Mighty Mouse'', [[Spotlight Comics]], #1–2 (1987)
*''Mighty Mouse'', Marvel Comics, #1–10 (1990), based on the [[Ralph Bakshi]] version (''[[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'')
*''Mighty Mouse'', [[Dynamite Entertainment]], #1–5 (2017–2018, collected as Volume 1: ''Saving the Day'', {{ISBN|978-1-5241-0386-6}})

In 1953, Mighty Mouse was featured in ''Three Dimension Comics'' #1, the first three-dimensional comics publication, produced by St. John Publications.<ref>{{cite news |title=Advertising & Marketing |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/06/27/84408849.html?pageNumber=23 |access-date=February 24, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 27, 1953}}</ref> According to co-creator [[Joe Kubert]], the 3-D issue sold an extraordinary 1.2 million copies at 25 cents each, more than twice the standard comic price of 10 cents.<ref name=terry-ch21>{{cite book |last1=Hamonic |first1=W. Gerald |title=Terrytoons: The Story of Paul Terry and His Classic Cartoon Factory |date=2018 |publisher=John Libbey Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-0861967292 |pages=255–266 |chapter=Relinquishing the Reins: The New Challenge of Television, the Sale of Terrytoons to CBS, and the Retirement of Paul Terry, 1952-1956}}</ref>

==DVD releases==
*''[[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'', the first official release of Mighty Mouse material, was released on January 5, 2010.<ref>[http://www.iammightymouse.com/ Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227064751/http://www.iammightymouse.com/ |date=December 27, 2009 }} official site</ref>

At least one episode, ''Wolf! Wolf!'', has fallen into the [[public domain]] and is available at the Internet Archive.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mighty Mouse: Wolf! Wolf!|url=https://archive.org/details/mighty_mouse_wolf_wolf|publisher=Internet Archive|access-date=May 11, 2012}}</ref>

==Controversy==
[[File:Mighty Mouse - The Littlest Tramp.png|right|thumb|Stills from the ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' episode "The Littlest Tramp". Top left: the flower is crushed by the rich man. Top right: Mighty Mouse receives the remains of the flower, which falls apart in his hand. Bottom left: Mighty Mouse thinks fondly of the girl, and brings out what's left of the flower. Bottom right: Mighty Mouse smells the flower, inhaling it in the process.]]

In 1988, ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' was the subject of media controversy when one scene was interpreted as a depiction of [[cocaine]] use. In the episode "The Littlest Tramp" a poor mouse girl attempts to sell flowers, and is repeatedly harassed by a rich man who crushes her flowers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Did Mighty Mouse Snort or Just Sniff the Flowers?|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8j5TAAAAIBAJ&pg=5837,3789168&dq|access-date=May 7, 2012|newspaper=The Deseret News|date=June 10, 1988|page=A3}}</ref> She runs out of flowers and makes new ones from sundry items she finds, such as tomato slices, but the man crushes these too.<ref name=ToledoBlade>{{cite news|title=Minister says cocaine made mouse mighty|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DFFPAAAAIBAJ&pg=2198,2938995|access-date=May 7, 2012|newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=June 10, 1988|agency=Associated Press|page=1}}</ref> Mighty Mouse attempts to purchase the flowers with his chunk of cheese, and to avenge the girl, but she gives Mighty Mouse the crushed flowers and insists that others need help more than she does. After successfully saving several different characters, he is reminded of the girl, and attempts to smell the flowers she gave him (now a pink powder), inhaling them in the process. He then finds the man that has been harassing the girl, and spanks him. The girl is sympathetic to the man, and he is so moved that the two are married.

A family in [[Kentucky]] saw the episode and reportedly interpreted the scene as Mighty Mouse snorting cocaine. The family called the [[American Family Association]] in [[Tupelo, Mississippi]]. The group demanded Bakshi be removed from production of the series.<ref name=NYTimes>{{cite news|title=Mighty Mouse Flying High On Flowers?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/nyregion/mighty-mouse-flying-high-on-flowers.html|newspaper=New York Times|access-date=May 7, 2012|first=Craig|last=Wolff|date=July 26, 1988}}</ref> Bakshi and CBS denied the allegations, Bakshi stating the whole incident "smacks of [[McCarthyism]]. I'm not going to get into who sniffs what. This is lunacy."<ref name=ToledoBlade /> To defuse the controversy, Bakshi agreed to cut the 3.5 seconds from the episode. Rev. [[Donald Wildmon]] claimed that the editing was a "de facto admission" of cocaine use, though Bakshi maintained that the episode was "totally innocent".<ref>{{cite news|title=Mighty Mouse's flowers clipped|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eShUAAAAIBAJ&pg=3344,6988718|access-date=May 7, 2012|newspaper=Boca Raton News|date=July 26, 1988|agency=Associated Press|page=2A}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|It's because of [[Fritz the Cat (film)|Fritz]] that they're going after Mighty Mouse. I grew up in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]] in Brooklyn and attended High School for Industrial Arts. I remember teachers who quit. Because of McCarthyism they weren't able to teach what they wanted. This is the same thing. Mighty Mouse was happy after smelling the flowers because it helped him remember the little girl who sold it to him fondly. But even if you're right, their accusations become part of the air we breathe. That's why I cut the scene. I can't have children wondering if Mighty Mouse is using cocaine.|Ralph Bakshi| ''The [[New York Times]]''}}

==Cultural influences==
In the book ''Astro Boy Essays'', author Frederik L. Schodt quotes Japanese animator [[Osamu Tezuka]] as saying that Mighty Mouse was the influence that inspired him to name his well-known character [[Astro Boy (character)|Mighty Atom]] (also known as Astro Boy). He also chose to imitate Mighty Mouse's signature flying pose with one arm stretched ahead with a clenched fist.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schodt|first=Frederik L.|title=The Astro Boy essays : Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the manga/anime revolution|year=2007|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|location=Berkeley, Calif.|isbn=978-1-933330-54-9|pages=248|access-date=May 10, 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wS3JJfZ0XgC&q=mighty+mouse&pg=PT88}}</ref>

Mighty Mouse was planned to make a cameo in the deleted scene "Acme's Funeral" from the 1988 film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hill |first1=Jim |title=From the JHM Archives: Scenes that were cut out of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" |url=http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2011/08/02/from-the-jhm-archives-scenes-that-were-cut-out-of-quot-who-framed-roger-rabbit-quot.aspx |website=jimhillmedia.com |date=August 2, 2011 |access-date=June 24, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

Mighty Mouse was featured on famed guitarist [[Tom Scholz]]'s [[Les Paul]] guitar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebrityguitars.com/gallery-3/tom-scholz|title=Tom Scholz's Mighty Mouse guitar.|publisher=Celebrity Guitars|access-date=May 10, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724053415/http://www.celebrityguitars.com/gallery-3/tom-scholz|archive-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref>

As part of [[Andy Kaufman]]'s act, he would play the Mighty Mouse theme while standing perfectly still and lip-sync only the line "Here I come to save the day" with great enthusiasm;<ref name="cnn2012">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/07/us/kaufman-lawler-wrestling-match/|title=The Great Ruse: The comedic genius who rocked wrestling|first=Wayne|last=Drash|publisher=CNN|date=April 7, 2012|access-date=April 9, 2012}}</ref> a 1975 performance of this act on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''<ref name="snl-s1">''SNL: The Complete First Season, 1975–1976''. DVD recording.</ref> is recreated in the 1999 [[biopic]] ''[[Man on the Moon (film)|Man on the Moon]]''.

===Apple trademark dispute===
{{Main|Apple Mighty Mouse#Name}}
[[Image:Mighty Mouse.jpg|thumbnail|Apple Mighty Mouse]]
On August 2, 2005, [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] released the company's first multi-control [[USB]] [[computer mouse]]. The product was designed by [[Mitsumi Electric]] and premiered under the name [[Apple Mighty Mouse]]. Apple continued to use the name when the product was redesigned as a [[Bluetooth]] device in 2006. Prior to its release, CBS licensed the right to use the Mighty Mouse name to Apple. In 2008, Man and Machine, Inc., a company that produces medical grade, chemical-resistant, mice and keyboards, sued both Apple and CBS for trademark infringement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clabaugh |first=Jeff |date=May 21, 2008 |title=Man & Machine sues Apple over Mighty Mouse |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/05/19/daily34.html |access-date=November 28, 2018 |website=Washington Business Journal}}</ref> Man and Machine claimed that it had used the name since 2004 and that CBS did not have the right to license the name for computer peripherals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 21, 2008 |title=Apple, CBS sued over 'Mighty Mouse' |url=https://9to5mac.com/2008/05/21/apple-cbs-sued-over-mighty-mouse/ |access-date=June 27, 2022 |website=9to5Mac |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled in favor of Man and Machine and Apple changed the name of its product to the "Apple Mouse".<ref>{{cite web|title=Apple's Mighty Mouse Never Lived Up To Its Name. And Now It Can't.|url=https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/apples-mighty-mouse-never-lived-up-to-its-name-and-now-it-cant/|publisher=Techcrunch|access-date=May 10, 2012|first=MG|last=Siegler|date=October 7, 2009}}</ref>

==See also==
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*[[Dinkan]], a Malayalam comic superhero mouse

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*''The Animated Movie Guide'' by [[Jerry Beck]], [[Independent Publishers Group|Chicago Review Press]], October 2005, {{ISBN|978-1-55652-591-9}}
*''Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi'', Universe, April 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-7893-1684-4}}
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*[https://books.google.com/books?id=LyesAyRMj1MC&q=mighty+mouse ''Castle Films: a hobbyists's guide''] by Scott MacGillivray, iUniverse, Inc., {{ISBN|978-0-595-32491-0}}
*''The Encyclopedia of Cartoon Superstars: From A to (Almost Z),'' by John Cawley and Jim Korkis, Pioneer Books, November 1990, {{ISBN|978-1-55698-269-9}}
*[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/299 <!-- quote=mighty mouse. --> ''Who's Who in Animated Cartoons''], by Jeff Lenburg, Applause Books, June 1, 2006, {{ISBN|1-55783-671-X}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=EMwn_4llWK0C&dq=mighty+mouse&pg=PA26 ''Modern Masters Volume 3: Bruce Timm''], by Eric Nolen-Weathington & Bruce Timm, TwoMorrows Publishing, June 1, 2004, {{ISBN|978-1-893905-30-6}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=voIe7XkFvEsC&dq=mighty+mouse&pg=PA138 ''Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV's Most Famous Myths''], by Bill Brioux, Praeger, December 30, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-275-99247-7}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=WlEjmDkdc08C&dq=mighty+mouse&pg=PA77 ''American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era: A Study of Social Commentary in Films And Television Programs, 1961–1973''], Christopher P. Lehman, McFarland & Company, October 27, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2818-2}}

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150403133011/http://tvshowsondvd.com/showresults.cfm?ShowName=mighty+mouse&ShowCategory=&Decade=&MaxRows=25&StartRow=1&Sort=Alpha&x=46&y=21 Mighty Mouse] at TVShowsOnDVD.com
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606033529/http://www.toontracker.com/terry/terry3.htm Terrytoons – The TV Series via the Wayback Machine] at Toontracker

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