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Issue: Four Color #261
Publication Date: January 1950
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Issues: #261 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the Missing Key
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MICKEY MOUSE and the MISSING KEY, No. 261." Code number is M.M.O.S. #261-501. Copyright 1949 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). Page count increases from 36 to 52. Apparently Mickey Mouse #11.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Mickey Mouse and The Missing Key

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Paul Murry
Inker(s): Paul Murry
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse
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In Content Item: FlagFour Color #261 published March 1950
as Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the Missing Key [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Morty and Ferdie as Railroad Engineers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Bradbury
Inker(s): Jack Bradbury
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis: Morty and Ferdie drop hints about what they want for Christmas.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
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Mickey Mouse and The Missing Key

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Pabian
Inker(s): Jim Pabian
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Synopsis: Two clowns deliver a steel trunk to Goofy, an inheritance from his Uncle Clown Goof. However they didn't leave a key to the trunk, so Mickey and Goofy travel to Clownland to retrieve the key. When they arrive in Clownland they find that Clown Goof's stepson, Clown Blackbeard, the world's most vicious clown, has the key on a string around his neck.
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In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #25/1963 published June 1963
as Mikke Mus i Klovne-land [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 1-8
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #26/1963 published June 1963
as Mikke Mus i Klovneland [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 9-16
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #27/1963 published July 1963
as Mikke Mus i Klovneland [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 17-21
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #28/1963 published July 1963
as Mikke Mus i Klovneland [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 22-28
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
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Mickey Mouse and the Phantom Thief

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Wright
Penciller(s): Bill Wright
Inker(s): Bill Wright
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): Bill Wright
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Chief O'Hara; Casey; Dinny the Dandy
Synopsis: Chief O'Hara comes to Mickey's house late at night to request his help. A string of burglaries has been committed. Each house has been protected by an electric beam which is supposed to detect any intruder. Mickey goes undercover to find the criminal and teams up with a suspect named Dinny the Dandy.
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In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Mickey and Donald #15 [Direct] published November 1989
as The Phantom Thief [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Street Skating

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Bradbury
Inker(s): Jack Bradbury
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis: Morty and Ferdie are depressed because there is no place for them to go ice-skating.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
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Jigsaw for Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Bradbury
Inker(s): Jack Bradbury
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis: Morty and Ferdie get a jigsaw (power saw) for Christmas.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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