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Issue Details

Issue #79
Published August 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Carl Buettner (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE, No. 79." Code number is M.M.O.S. 79-458. Copyright 1945 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). Apparently Mickey Mouse #1?

Cover Details - "The Riddle of the Red Hat"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Buettner ?
Inks Carl Buettner ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Uncle Scrooge - Free Comic Book Day (Gemstone, 2004 series) #[nn]

11 page Mickey Mouse story "The Riddle of the Red Hat"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Clarabelle Cow; Goofy; Black Pete; Mr. Whoosit
Synopsis Mickey laughs at Minnie's new hat, then mistakes a girl in a similar hat for Minnie. The girl mistakes Mickey for someone else and gives him a "diamond ring" that actually contains a large ruby. Minnie is kidnapped by the girl's real contact, Black Pete (who is never identified by name.)
Genre funny animals
Script Eleanor Packer
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted April 27, 1945. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982). Story starts on inside front cover (printed in red/black tones)
Reprinted in Mickey Mouse in Color (book) (Another Rainbow, 1988 series) #1 (June 1997); in Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald (Gladstone, 1988 series) #17 (March 1990); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #5 (May 1994); in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Uncle Scrooge - Free Comic Book Day (Gemstone, 2004 series) #[nn]

10 page Mickey Mouse story "Pluto the Hero"

Characters Pluto
Genre funny animals
Pencils Vivie Risto
Inks Vivie Risto
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

14 page Mickey Mouse story "Goofy's Orphans"

Characters Goofy
Genre funny animals
Pencils Don Gunn ?
Inks Don Gunn ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes story continues on inside back cover (printed in red/black tones) and ends on back cover.
Reprinted in Mickey Mouse Birthday Party (Dell, 1953 series) #1