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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Carl Buettner (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE, No. 27." No code number. Copyright 1943 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).

Cover Details - "Mickey Mouse and The Seven Colored Terror"

Characters Mickey Mouse
Genre funny animals; mystery
Pencils Ken Hultgren ?
Inks Ken Hultgren ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Mickey Mouse illustration "Salutes a Bird"

Characters Mickey Mouse
Synopsis While out for a walk, Mickey tips his hat to a bird in a tree.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Notes Inside front cover; color.

21 page Mickey Mouse story "The Seven-Colored Terror!"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Pluto; Mr. Squiggles
Synopsis Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto go to Lake Tranquil to take summer jobs, only to find that the tourist trade is being scared off by a ferocious seven-colored mountain lion.
Genre funny animals
Script Ken Hultgren
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Ken Hultgren
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #1

23 page Mickey Mouse story "The Great Swami Mooh-lah"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Clarabelle Cow; Goofy;
Synopsis Minnie inherits some money and decides to open a gift shop. When the big department store next door undercuts her prices and takes her business, Mickey comes up with the idea of posing as a swami who will weave a person's personality into a scarf.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Ken Hultgren
Reprinted in Mickey Mouse Birthday Party (Dell, 1953 series) #1

20 page Mickey Mouse story "Villain of the Victory Garden"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Goofy; Clarabelle Cow; Horace Horsecollar; Chief O'Hara
Synopsis Someone is vandalizing Mickey and his friends' Victory Gardens.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Ken Hultgren

1 page Minnie Mouse illustration "Picking Flowers"

Characters Minnie Mouse
Synopsis Minnie uses scissors to cut flowers.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Notes Inside back cover; color.

1 page Mickey Mouse illustration "Bike Ride"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Pluto
Synopsis Mickey and Minnie ride a bicycle and pull Pluto in a trailer behind them.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Back cover. Scene is the same as the start of "The Seven-Colored Terror" story.