Four Color
#304 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Tom-Tom Island
(December 1950)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1950
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
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.
Tom-Tom Island
Mickey Mouse / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Mickey Mouse; Thursday
- Reprints
-
in Four Color (Wilson Publishing, 1947 series) #304 -
in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #1/1955 (januar 1955) which is reprinted - in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[13] - 1955 del 1 (2002)
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in Walt Disney's serier (Richters Förlag AB, 1950 series) #1/1955 - in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #10/1971 (uke 40 1971)
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- Keywords
- drums; native tribesmen; pith helmets
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.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look... Minnie just made some pie!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
- Synopsis
- Morty and Ferdie borrow Mickey's shoes when they swipe a pie from Minnie's windowsill.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #1/1955 (januar 1955) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; monochrome (black and red).
Tom-Tom Island
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 29 pages
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #1/1955 (januar 1955) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[13] - 1955 del 1 (2002)
- in Walt Disney's serier (Richters Förlag AB, 1950 series) #1/1955
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #10/1971 (uke 40 1971) [2. translation, 7 pages removed]
-
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
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Hubbard
- Inks
- Al Hubbard
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Melvin Millar
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #8/1957 (10. april 1957) [pages 1-9] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[21] - 1957 del 2 ([juli] 2003)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #9/1957 (24. april 1957) [pages 10-19] which is reprinted
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[no title indexed]
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Brrr-r! Plenty cold outside...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
- Synopsis
- On a cold day, Mickey bundles Morty and Ferdie up snugly, only to regret it later at the movies.
- Reprints
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #12/1955 (desember 1955) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; monochrome (black and red).
How to make the front cover move...
activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Carl Buettner ?
- Inks
- Carl Buettner ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- ?
- 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.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Tom-Tom Island
Mickey Mouse -
1.
["Look... Minnie just made some pie!"]
Mickey Mouse -
2.
Tom-Tom Island
Mickey Mouse -
3.
Rescue of the Rangers
Mickey Mouse -
4.
["Brrr-r! Plenty cold outside..."]
Mickey Mouse -
5.
How to make the front cover move...
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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