Issue | #304 |
Published | December 1950 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director) |
Notes | Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Indicia title is "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Tom-Tom Island." Code date is W.D.O.S. #304-5012. Apparently Mickey Mouse #16. Part of "animated covers" series. Sections of back covers could be cut out and inserted into slits cut in the front cover and moved back and forth. |
Characters | Mickey Mouse; Thursday |
Genre | funny animals |
Pencils | Carl Buettner ? |
Inks | Carl Buettner ? |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Notes | Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Indicia title is "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Tom-Tom Island." Code date is W.D.O.S. #304-5012. Apparently Mickey Mouse #16. Part of "animated covers" series. Sections of back covers could be cut out and inserted into slits cut in the front cover and moved back and forth. |
Characters | Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Morty and Ferdie |
Synopsis | Morty and Ferdie borrow Mickey's shoes when they swipe a pie from Minnie's windowsill. |
Genre | funny animals |
Colors | black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Notes | Inside front cover; monochrome (black and red). |
Characters | Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Thursday; Friday; Minnie Mouse (cameo) |
Synopsis | Mickey receives a request from Tom-Tom Island (somewhere by Africa) that he and Goofy visit his native friends Thursday and Friday. Goofy turns out to look exactly like the natives' idol "Teetotem" and they won't let him leave. |
Genre | funny animals; adventure |
Pencils | Riley Thompson |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Notes | Friday is first introduced in Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip story "Mickey Mouse Meets Robinson Crusoe" (December 1, 1938, to April 13, 1939). Thursday, Friday's brother, is first introduced in Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip story "An Education for Thursday" (January 15, 1940, to April 20, 1940). The latter story is reprinted as "Mickey's Surprise Visitor" (Four Color #268, March 1950). |
Characters | Mickey Mouse; Goofy |
Synopsis | Mickey and Goofy become forest rangers at Sleepy Valley National Park. They soon learn that the last four rangers at the park have disappeared and receive a threat that they might be the next ones. |
Genre | funny animals |
Pencils | Al Hubbard |
Inks | Al Hubbard |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Melvin Millar [Tubby Millar] |
Characters | Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie |
Synopsis | On a cold day, Mickey bundles Morty and Ferdie up snugly, only to regret it later at the movies. |
Genre | funny animal |
Colors | black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Notes | Inside back cover; monochrome (black and red). |
Characters | Thursday |
Pencils | Carl Buettner ? |
Inks | Carl Buettner ? |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Notes | Back cover; color. Directions for cutting out a section of the back cover and inserting it in slits cut in the front cover; thus making a moving drum hand. |