(1950)
Western,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 32
- On-sale Date
- 1950
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
- Editing
- Chase Craig (editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb ? (editor)
Issue Notes
Mickey Mouse and the Disappearing Island
Mickey Mouse / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Mickey Mouse; Goofy
- Synopsis
- Mickey and Goofy peer at something below, while high up in a gas-filled balloon.
- Keywords
- balloon; unwelcome surprise
Mickey Mouse and the Disappearing Island
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 30 pages
- Script
- Homer Brightman
- Pencils
- Don R. Christensen
- Inks
- Don R. Christensen
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Get a view from the balloon, folks! Ten minutes for the tenth part of a dollar!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Mickey Mouse; Goofy; balloon ride proprietor; Professor Morose
- Synopsis
- Mickey and Goofy take an unintended balloon ride to “The Island of Professor Morose”, a crackpot scientist who intends to make the whole world disappear – starting with his two newly balloon-delivered test subjects.
- Keywords
- balloon; black cloud; disappearing; formula; island; mad scientist; sandbags; sea or island setting; shark; state fair; strange chemical properties
Indexer Notes
First comic book work for Western Publishing by Don R. Christensen, who would work off and on for Western through 1981. Full art for this story, but all future submissions would be in storyboard form, per Christensen's notes. Pages consist of 1-3 panels each.
Now Look! Coming your way - a big parade of 8 new fun-packed comic books!
General Mills; Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Send today for Walt Disney's Comic Book Set "B"
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Mickey Mouse; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck; Goofy; Pluto; Li'l Bad Wolf
- Synopsis
- Daisy's floating head is pictured with a box of Wheaties cereal, while the other characters (in full figure) march in parade style. Donald beats a drum, as the other marchers hold and wave issues of the mini-comics.
- Keywords
- cereal; comic books; Disney character merchandise
Indexer Notes
Ad for Wheaties cereal, sponsor of this giveaway premium, offering Disney character mini comic books. Comics offered feature Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and Li'l Bad Wolf. A rare advertisement for Wheaties cereal that does not feature an athlete of any kind.
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Now Look! Coming your way - a big parade of 8 new fun-packed comic books!
General Mills; Wheaties
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