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Issue Details

Issue #181
Published February 1948
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 MICKEY MOUSE in JUNGLE MAGIC, No. 181." Code number is M.M.O.S. #181-482. Copyright 1947 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 regular series #6?

Cover Details - " Jungle Magic"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Genre funny animals; jungle
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Trombone Trouble"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Synopsis Goofy's neighbor is practicing the trombone at night and is keeping Goofy awake.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Gil Turner
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

20 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse and Jungle Magic!"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Horace Horsecollar; Goofy; Missus van Giltedge; Dan Delion
Synopsis Mickey is working in a flower shop. A wealthy woman requests a black orchid and the store's owner sends Mickey and Goofy to the Orinoco River area in South America to find one.
Genre funny animals; jungle
Script Bill Wright
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Title is slightly different than cover title. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

12 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse and the Soap Box Derby"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie; Pluto; Goofy; Minnie Mouse
Synopsis The nephews are so busy building a soap box racer that Mickey thinks they've forgotten his birthday.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes References in the last panel to radio programs "The Lone Cowpuncher" and "The Green Beetle" likely takeoffs on "The Lone Ranger" and "The Green Hornet."
Reprinted in Mickey Mouse Birthday Party (Dell, 1953 series) #1

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Raking Leaves"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
Synopsis Mickey is angry with the nephews for not doing their job of raking the leaves.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Don Gunn
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white.

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Artificial Fruit"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Minnie Mouse
Synopsis Mickey has Pluto take a basket of fruit to Minnie, but along the way it is switched with a basket of wax fruit.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Gil Turner
Notes Back cover.