Crying Wolf

A sheepdog tends his sheep. All the little lambs are playing and having fun except a little black sheep who is playing jokes. The sheepdog has trouble with the lone black sheep, who's always creating mischief and "crying wolf." The black sheep dresses like a wolf to scare the others and is captured by a real wolf. The real wolf and Mighty Mouse become entangled in this deviltry.

Mighty Mouse, Sheepdog, Black Sheep, Other Sheep, Wolf, Other Wolves

Created by I. (Izzy) Klein in the spring of 1940, this character was originally designed as a fly. Paul Terry liked the concept, and green-lighted the project after changing the fly to a mouse called, "Supermouse."

After two years on the screen, the Supermouse name was changed to Mighty Mouse. Some reports are that the threat of a lawsuit from DC Comics was behind this name change. Others insist that Terry did not want to compete against a character of the same name that an ex-TerryToons employee drew for Coo Coo Comics.

In any case, in 1944, the character's name was changed, and the Supermouse cartoons were retitled to the new name.