Walt Disney's Comics- Wheaties Set B #1

(1950)

Mickey Mouse and the Pharaoh's Curse (Table of Contents: 1)

Mickey Mouse / comic story / 30 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Jim Pabian

Inks

Jim Pabian

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gosh! Listen to it thunder, Pluto!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Boris (museum guard); Professor Dustibones (museum curator); two police officers

Synopsis

Professor Dustibones asks Mickey to guard a pharaoh's sarcophagus at his museum. The inscription on the sarcophagus translates to "Death and eternal sleep to the defilers of a pharaoh's tomb!", prompting all the museum's guards to quit when strange phenomena begin manifesting.

Reprints

• in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Disney, 1990 series) #557 (March 1991) [For the reprint, the story is remounted to "three tiers per page", vs. the "one tier per page" format of the original printing. One reprint-page equals three original-pages, making the reprinted version ten pages, vs. the thirty pages of the original printing.]

Keywords

abounding oddities; curse; fear; misdrawn character; museum; sarcophagus; storm

Indexer Notes

Pages consist of 1-3 panels each.

This story is reminiscent of a Floyd Gottfredson newspaper strip continuity, with Mickey as a plucky little scrapper, and uses the character of "Professor Dustibones" from the Gottfredson continuity "Land of Long Ago" (1940-1941).

In this story, Professor Dustibones is depicted as a "human", as opposed to his original rendering as a more typical "Disney-dogface" character.

Particularly effective and well-done by artist Pabian is the scene where, armed with only a small flashlight, Mickey tiptoes through the museum's darkened Anthropology Section carefully avoiding the wax statues... until one of them comes to life and tries to behead him.

It should be noted, however, that even wax statues of anthropological exhibit-beings from ancient civilizations wear those "standard-issue Disney white gloves" in hands that otherwise wield clubs and swords.

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