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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published October 1958
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 100
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 - "Merry-go-round"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Goofy; Pluto
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks Norm McGary ?
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).

9 page story "Disneyland Birthday Party"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks John Liggera
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes frame story
Reprinted in Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 Series) #1

10 page Dumbo story "Kidnapped"

Characters Dumbo; El Rancid; John Worthington Foulfellow; Gideon
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Fallberg
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Paul Murry
Reprinted in Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 Series) #1

16 page Uncle Scrooge story "The impenetrable money bin"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge and Gyro go to the Moon to find a material hard enough to cut into Scrooge's new impenetrable money bin, since Scrooge has destroyed the only copy of the combination. On the Moon they find the material they want--a comet head--but are forced to jettison it on their way back to Earth when their rockets catches fire.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on February 4, 1958. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 series) #1 (August 1985); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #34 (January 1998); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)

11 page Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs story "The wishing jewel"

Characters The Seven Dwarfs; Snow White; Wicked Witch
Script Carl Fallberg
Pencils Pete Alvarado
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 Series) #1

8 page Goofy and Li'l Davy story "Laying rails"

Characters Li'l Davy; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 Series) #1

17 page story "The Adventures of Mr. Toad"

Characters Mr. Toad
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Fallberg
Pencils Pete Alvarado
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 series) #1 (August 1985); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Disney, 1990 series) #580 (February 1993)

14 page Donald Duck story "Bargain sea cruise"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Daisy Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Fallberg
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks John Liggera
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 Series) #1

11 page Peter Pan and Captain Hook story "Ambush at Sea"

Characters Captain Hook; Peter Pan; Tinker Bell; Mister Smee
Script Carl Fallberg
Pencils Jack Bradbury
Inks Jack Bradbury
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #26 (new layout); Disneyland Birthday Party (Gladstone, 1985 Series) #1

1 page illustration "Birthday Time at Disneyland"

Pencils Lee Hooper
Inks Lee Hooper
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)