(December 1950)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Indicia title is "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Tom-Tom Island." Code date is W.D.O.S. #304-5012.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet, 1948 series) #12/1955 (30. november 1955) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Egmont Serieforlaget AS, 1998 series) #1955 del III (2002)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet, 1948 series) #8/1957 (10. april 1957) which is reprinted
- in De Komplette Ã…rgangene 1957 del 2 (2003)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet, 1948 series) #9/1957 (24. april 1957) which is reprinted
- in De Komplette Ã…rgangene 1957 del 2 (2003)
Tom-Tom Island
Mickey Mouse / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Carl Buettner ?
- Inks:
- Carl Buettner ?
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Mickey Mouse; Thursday
Indexer Notes
Part of "animated covers" series. Sections of back covers could be cut out and inserted into slits cut in the front cover and moved back and forth.
[Pie theft]
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
- Synopsis:
- Morty and Ferdie borrow Mickey's shoes when they swipe a pie from Minnie's windowsill.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; monochrome (black and red).
Tom-Tom Island
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 29 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Riley Thompson
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals; adventure
- Characters:
- Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Thursday; Friday; Minnie Mouse (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- Mickey receives a request from Tom-Tom Island (somewhere by Africa) that he and Goofy visit his native friends Thursday and Friday. Goofy turns out to look exactly like the natives' idol "Teetotem" and they won't let him leave.
Indexer Notes
Friday is first introduced in Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip story "Mickey Mouse Meets Robinson Crusoe" (December 1, 1938, to April 13, 1939). Thursday, Friday's brother, is first introduced in Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip story "An Education for Thursday" (January 15, 1940, to April 20, 1940). The latter story is reprinted as "Mickey's Surprise Visitor" (Four Color #268, March 1950).
Rescue of the Rangers
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 19 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Al Hubbard
- Inks:
- Al Hubbard
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Melvin Millar [Tubby Millar]
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Mickey Mouse; Goofy
- Synopsis:
- Mickey and Goofy become forest rangers at Sleepy Valley National Park. They soon learn that the last four rangers at the park have disappeared and receive a threat that they might be the next ones.
[Movie visit]
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
- Synopsis:
- On a cold day, Mickey bundles Morty and Ferdie up snugly, only to regret it later at the movies.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; monochrome (black and red).
How to make the front cover move...
activity / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Carl Buettner ?
- Inks:
- Carl Buettner ?
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Characters:
- Thursday
Indexer Notes
Back cover; color. Directions for cutting out a section of the back cover and inserting it in slits cut in the front cover; thus making a moving drum hand.
Table of Contents
-
1.
[Pie theft]
Mickey Mouse -
2.
Tom-Tom Island
Mickey Mouse -
3.
Rescue of the Rangers
Mickey Mouse -
4.
[Movie visit]
Mickey Mouse -
5.
How to make the front cover move...
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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