Expert: Brian G. Philbin - 11/18/2009

Question
What was the comic book about the little girl with a mouse (I think) friend, who could make herself as small as the mouse saying - Now I turn myself around three times, then I wish with all my might, magic words of poof poof piffle, make me just as small as - Sniffle?  I need the names and correct incantation for a book.

Answer
Hi, Susan - thanks for your question!

You'll find them in Four Color Comics by Dell.  The subtitle is "Mary Jane and Sniffles".  Al Hubbard rendered the characters and Chase Craig was the writer of this series. They teamed Sniffles (an otherwise minor "star" in Merry Melodies and Loony Tunes cartoons) with Mary Jane, who could shrink herself to mouse size.  

I don't know the actual incantation, however, since I've not read these myself.

This is their first appearances together that I can find:

http://www.comics.org/issue/1754/

Also, you can use this link to find all of Sniffle's appearances in chronological order:

http://www.comics.org/character/name/sniffles/sort/chrono/

You'll likely need to buy a copy of one of these to get the actual incantation, so you should either search for these on eBay.  Here's an actual search for them - this should help:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_IncludeSIF=1&_nkw=mary+jane+%26+sniffles&_trkparm...

If the link doesn't work, just type "Mary Jane and Sniffles" (without the quotation marks) into eBay's "Search" function and you'll come up with at least a few.

Hope that's helpful - let me know if you have any other questions!

Pax, harmonia,

Brian G. Philbin
www.metropolisplus.com