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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "Mickey Mouse in Tom-Tom Island"

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.

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Pie theft"

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).

29 page Mickey Mouse story "Tom-Tom Island"

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).

19 page Mickey Mouse story "Rescue of the Rangers"

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]

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Movie visit"

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).

1 page activity "How to make the front cover move..."

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.