Jack Mercer Movies

Superman’s reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.

A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.

Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills…

Fed up with Bluto’s greed with his expensive river ferry service, Popeye, Olive and Wimpy decide to undermine the bully by building a bridge instead.

That’s what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy’s barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you’d think Popeye would know better than to…

In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his “Adventures of Popeye” comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips…

Popeye’s ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”). Maestro Bluto drops in from…

It’s the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto’s Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye’s fairy godpappy appears and…

Popeye’s unconventional torpedo-loading technique get him a mild punishment: he’s ordered to stand at attention. Just then, the enemy attacks. He remains at attention, even as a bomb throws…

In her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to the good fairy; later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.

Grampy wants to take Betty Boop out for a ride in his roadster. But Betty had a wild party the night before, and now she has to clean up. Grampy…

In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people. He saves a baby from…

A murder at the Metropolis Munitions plant draws Lois Lane into the thick of a sabotage plot; she ends up inside a torpedo about to be tested. Meanwhile, where is…

Popeye is enjoying watering his patriotic garden on July 4 when he catches his nephews attempting to light fireworks. The game is on when he attempts to confiscate the fireworks…

Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy to be the new mayor, and he wins by one vote. Betty gets everything in his office ready. But the moment Grampy sits down, the…

A series of blackout gags show the topsy-turvy world of Crazy Town.

While Clark Kent is in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur.

Olive is reading ghost stories to the boys. Popeye scoffs; Bluto decides to take advantage of this by staging various pranks (a headless man, an animated skeleton, and a sheet-over-balloon…

The children at the orphanage are thrilled to wake up and find plenty of new toys on Christmas morning. Unfortunately, all of them break or fall apart within a few…

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares – and Olive, in particular.

American industry builds a gigantic new bomber and Lois Lane stows away on the test flight; little does she suspect, Japanese spies are aboard to hijack the giant. Superman to…

Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto). Hercules gets his strength by sniffing garlic;…

A caterwauling cat annoys Betty Boop and Pudgy; the latter tries cat-chasing, but bites off more than he can chew.

Popeye is marrying Olive tomorrow; he’s ecstatic. She has a dream of the future, including twin sons who prove to be a real handful. When Popeye comes by the next…

Popeye and Bluto are running competing penny arcades, trying to bring in customer Wimpy. Of course, he would gladly pay Tuesday for a penny today. And of course, their competing…

Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the…

Popeye’s sailing out in the Pacific, spoiling for a fight with the Japanese. He comes across what looks a Japanese fishing boat, but, just before Popeye lets loose with the…

Little Audrey likes school, but doesn’t like Mother Goose rhymes. She gets so involved in the crooks in her comic books that she doesn’t hear when asked by the teacher…

A swingin’ hurdy-gurdy man goes by Betty Boop’s house; she wants to buy the monkey, which causes plenty of trouble for Pudgy the Pup.

Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain….

His Mama is the only one who love Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little…

The World’s Fair, as imagined by the Max Fleischer animation studio.

Depressed by the antics of the other ghosts, Casper leaves home to make friends. After unintentionally scaring several potential pals, Casper befriends two young children. They take him home, where…

The adult ghosts are testing themselves on a Scare Meter; but poor, lonely Casper has no wish to frighten anyone. Yet he’s a ghost; and when he tries to befriend…

Hunters visit the home of a polar bear community, causing a bear parent to have to rescue its cub.

It’s winter, and all the toys are in tears because their little girl mistress Nancy is seriously ill and the doctor says that only sunlight will make her recover. Raggedy…

Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother’s warning that “curiosity killed the cat.”

A jungle temple with hooded priest is really a Nazi military base which downs a plane bearing Lois Lane and some secret plans. Can Superman save her from human sacrifice?

Bluto’s window cleaning service is not above drumming up a little business for himself. But when he gets to Olive’s stenographer office, about 10 floors up, she says no: Popeye’s…

While Clark and Lois are reviewing a circus, “Gigantic” the gorilla escapes and endangers Lois. In the resulting chaos, other dangerous animals escape also. A job for Superman?