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Issue Details

Issue #261
Published January 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
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 MISSING KEY, No. 261." Code number is M.M.O.S. #261-501. 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). Page count increases from 36 to 52. Apparently Mickey Mouse #11.

Cover Details - "Mickey Mouse and The Missing Key"

Characters Mickey Mouse
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Morty and Ferdie as Railroad engineers"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis Morty and Ferdie drop hints about what they want for Christmas.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Jack Bradbury
Inks Jack Bradbury
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

28 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse and The Missing Key"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Synopsis Two clowns deliver a steel trunk to Goofy, an inheritance from his Uncle Clown Goof. However they didn't leave a key to the trunk, so Mickey and Goofy travel to Clownland to retrieve the key. When they arrive in Clownland they find that Clown Goof's stepson, Clown Blackbeard, the world's most vicious clown, has the key on a string around his neck.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Jim Pabian
Inks Jim Pabian
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

20 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse and the Phantom Thief"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Chief O'Hara; Casey; Dinny the Dandy
Synopsis Chief O'Hara comes to Mickey's house late at night to request his help. A string of burglaries has been committed. Each house has been protected by an electric beam which is supposed to detect any intruder. Mickey goes undercover to find the criminal and teams up with a suspect named Dinny the Dandy.
Genre funny animals
Script Bill Wright
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald (Gladstone, 1988 series) #15 (November 1989)

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Street Skating"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis Morty and Ferdie are depressed because there is no place for them to go ice-skating.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Jack Bradbury
Inks Jack Bradbury
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white.

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Jigsaw for Christmas"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis Morty and Ferdie get a jigsaw (power saw) for Christmas.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Jack Bradbury
Inks Jack Bradbury
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Back cover.