Saturday Morning Cartoons--Mighty Mouse in The Mouse of Tomorrow

Now this is a fun treat--the first Mighty Mouse cartoon! Now according to Wikipedia:

Mighty Mouse is an animated superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox.

He was created by storyman I. Klein as a super-powered housefly named "Superfly," but studio head Paul Terry changed the character into a toon mouse instead. Originally created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short entitled The Mouse of Tomorrow. The original name of the character was Super Mouse, but it was soon changed to Mighty Mouse when Paul Terry learned that another character with the same name was being published in comic books.

Mighty Mouse originally had a blue costume with a red cape, like Superman; but over time this changed to a yellow costume with a red cape. As with other imitations of Superman, Mighty Mouse's super powers allow him to fly, and make him incredibly strong and invulnerable. He has demonstrated the use of "X-ray vision" in at least one cartoon, while during several cartoons he used a form of super-hypnosis that even allowed him to command inanimate objects and turn back time (as in the cartoons The Johnstown Flood and Krakatoa). Other cartoons have him leaving a red contrail as he flies which he can manipulate like a band of solid flexible matter when he so desires.

The initial formula consisted of an extended setup of a crisis which needs extraordinary help to resolve and Mighty Mouse appears to save the day.

So here is the first Mighty Mouse cartoon--The Mouse of Tomorrow! From YouTube:



Here I come to save the day!