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Issue Details

Issue #248
Published October 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 MICKEY MOUSE and the BLACK SORCERER, No. 248." Code number is W.D.O.S. #248-4910. Copyright 1949 by Walt Disney Productions. Apparently Mickey Mouse regular series #10?

Cover Details - "Mickey Mouse and the Black Sorceror"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Phantasmo
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Fixing Tire With Bubble Gum"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Mortie; Ferdie
Synopsis When Mickey's car gets a flat tire, he patches it with bubble gum.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

20 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse and the Black Sorcerer"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Goofy; Phantasmo
Synopsis Minnie disappears and when Mickey goes to the Bureau of Missing Persons, he finds that more than 50 people have been reported missing. More people are missing the next day. The only thing the missing people have in common is that they either owned a television set or had gone someplace to watch television on the night they vanished. Mickey and Goofy find that Phantasmo the Sorcerer is sending hypnotic broadcasts over the television ordering people to come to his castle to take part in his experiments.
Genre funny animals
Script Bill Wright
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes This was published when only a few people owned televisions. Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted in Mickey Mouse (Gladstone, 1986 series) #250

12 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse on Pirate Key"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie; Black Pete
Synopsis When out sailing, Mickey, Mortie, and Ferdie seek shelter from a storm in an old lighthouse. The lighthouse turns out to be the hideout of Black Pete, who holds them captive.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Bill Wright
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald (Gladstone, 1988 series) #10 (May 1989)

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Pluto Attacks Dragon Hat"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Minnie Mouse
Synopsis After Mickey reads him a story, Pluto mistakes Minnie's hat for a dragon.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Goofy Serves Dinner"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Synopsis When Goofy invites Mickey for dinner, Mickey requests mince pie.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Back cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).