Issue Details

Issue	#27
Published	September 1961
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and/or Del Connell (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).

Cover Details - "Roller-skating"

Characters	Chip 'n' Dale
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Harvey Eisenberg ?
Inks	Harvey Eisenberg ?
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).

1 page Chip 'n' Dale story "Toot Retreat"

Characters	Chip 'n' Dale
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Pete Alvarado
Inks	Steve Steere

6 page Chip 'n' Dale story "The Defective Detective"

Characters	Chip 'n' Dale; Thumper; Bill Bird
Synopsis	Dale wants to be a detective.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Al Hubbard
Inks	Al Hubbard
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted	in Chip 'n' Dale (Gold Key, 1967 series) #21

1 page activity "Color This Picture and You can Win"

Letters	typeset
Notes	house ad for "Dell Comics Contest." Entrants have to color a drawing of boy and girl and Ford Thunderbird.

4 page Chip 'n' Dale story "The Large Charge"

Characters	Chip 'n' Dale
Synopsis	Chip 'n' Dale use a battery to set a booby-trap for a marten.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Al Hubbard
Inks	Al Hubbard
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted	in Chip 'n' Dale (Gold Key, 1967 series) #21

4 page Three Little Pigs story "Hindsight Plight"

Characters	Three Little Pigs [Practical Pig; Fifer Pig; Fiddler Pig]; Big Bad Wolf; Brer Fox
Synopsis	The big bad wolf captures the lazy brothers, but is undone by his superstitious nature when Practical shows him two mirrors that the Wolf had broken.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Jack Bradbury
Inks	Jack Bradbury
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

2 page The Dell Trading Post promo (ad from the publisher) "Start Trading Now at the Dell Trading Post"

Letters	typeset
Notes	house ad for "The Dell Trading Post" where readers could send in the title strips on the covers and cash and get prizes in return.

7 page Chip 'n' Dale story "Way Out West"

Characters	Chip 'n' Dale; Guy Ground Squirrel; Bill Quill
Synopsis	Chip 'n' Dale return to the desert to help the ground squirrels they met in an earlier story (Chip 'n' Dale #24) outwit a porcupine.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Al Hubbard
Inks	Al Hubbard
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes	Second in "Chipmunks visit Desert" series.
Reprinted	in Chip 'n' Dale (Gold Key, 1967 series) #48

1 page Scamp text story "The Watchpuppy"

Characters	Scamp
Synopsis	Scamp gets taken along with the loot when a robber steals the silverware in his master's house.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Al Hubbard
Inks	Al Hubbard
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	typeset
Notes	text story with 1/4 page illustrated title panel.

6 page Chip 'n' Dale story "All Shook Up"

Characters	Chip 'n' Dale; Donald Duck
Synopsis	Donald uses a nut-shaker attachment on a tractor to shake the nuts off the trees.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Fallberg
Pencils	Al Hubbard
Inks	Al Hubbard
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted	in Chip 'n' Dale (Gold Key, 1967 series) #48

1 page Pop-Ice advertisement "Special Offer from Pop-Ice!"

Characters	Popeye (cameo)
Letters	typeset
Notes	ad for "Pop-Ice" frozen juice snack featuring Popeye on package. Premium is "Popeye Navy Club"

1 page Chip 'n' Dale story "Keyed Up"

Characters	Chip 'n' Dale
Synopsis	Chip 'n' Dale use key from can of peanuts as pry bar to open walnut.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Al Hubbard
Inks	Al Hubbard

1 page Revolutionary War Soldiers advertisement "204 Revolutionary War Soldiers"

Letters	typeset
Notes	back cover. Illustrated ad for 204 plastic Revolutionary War Soldiers.