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Issue Details

Issue #227
Published May 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney's SEVEN DWARFS, No. 227." Code number is W.D.O.S. #227-495. Copyright 1949 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details

Characters The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Dopey; Grumpy; Sleepy; Sneezy; Bashful; Happy]; Yellow-Beak
Pencils Carl Buettner
Inks Carl Buettner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Bashful story "Bashful the Artist"

Characters The Seven Dwarfs [Bashful]
Synopsis Bashful decides he want to become an artist.
Pencils Roger Armstrong
Inks Roger Armstrong
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Roger Armstrong
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

25 page The Seven Dwarfs story "The Seven Dwarfs and the Pirate"

Characters The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Dopey; Grumpy; Sleepy; Sneezy; Bashful; Happy]; Yellow-Beak; Wicked Witch; King Neptune; Snow White
Synopsis Yellow-Beak the parrot comes to the Dwarfs' house with a map of buried pirate treasure and convinces the Dwarfs to help him find it. The Dwarfs and Yellow-Beak set sail on a ship, but the Witch changes herself into a rat to hitch a ride to the isle where the treasure is buried.
Script Chase Craig ?
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks Tony Strobl
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Tony Strobl
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

7 page The Seven Dwarfs story "The Seven Dwarfs and Humpty Dumpty"

Characters The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Dopey; Grumpy; Sleepy; Sneezy; Bashful; Happy]; Humpty Dumpty; Gumpty Dumpty; the Giant
Synopsis Humpty Dumpty's brother Gumpty falls for a trick contest and is captured by the Giant, who wants him for an omelet. Doc and Dopey come up with a plan to rescue him.
Genre children
Script Roger Armstrong
Pencils Roger Armstrong
Inks Roger Armstrong
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Roger Armstrong
Notes Script and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Sleepy story "Sleepy Can't Sleep"

Characters The Seven Dwarfs [Sleepy]
Synopsis Sleepy can't sleep because the house is too quiet when the other dwarfs are away.
Pencils Roger Armstrong
Inks Roger Armstrong
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Roger Armstrong
Notes Inside back cover; black, red. and white.

1 page Dopey story "Doorknobs and Eggs"

Characters The Seven Dwarfs [Dopey; Grumpy]
Synopsis Dopey tries to get a hen to lay eggs by placing a doorknob in her nest.
Pencils Roger Armstrong
Inks Roger Armstrong
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Roger Armstrong
Notes Back cover.