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Issue: Mickey Mouse #176

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Publication Date: October 1977

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Issues: #176 of 134 Issues (197 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Whitman

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Western

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0335009002710

Price: $0.30 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
6 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Del Connell (managing editor); Del Connell (story editor); Larry Mayer (art director)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

Mickey Mouse #176 [unnamed variant]

Mickey Mouse #176 [Whitman]

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (7 total)

The Outlaw Trail

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Outlaw Trail

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Mountie colonel; banker; grocery store proprietor; other irate citizens; Slippery Sam

First Line: In this story, Goofy and I try to uphold the code of the Mounties and get our man!

Synopsis: Sergeant Mickey Mouse and Private Goofy of the Mounties are assigned to apprehend an outlaw whom no victims or witnesses have ever laid eyes on.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Notes: Mickey addresses the readers in the opening splash panel, acting as a host. The story resumes conventionally after that.

At one point, Mickey is explicitly presumed dead by his commanding officer.

Mickey's use of the word "Ug!" (page 9, panel 5) and a greater level of humor than in a typical Carl Fallberg Mickey Mouse adventure story point to Bob Ogle as having written this story.

The original 1964 printing displayed a "banner" at the top of the opening splash panel reading "Walt Disney's A Mickey Mouse Club Comic", with what appears to be clip-art of the 1950s-era Mickey Mouse Club clubhouse. That banner is removed for this 1977 reprint.

All Bark and No Bite

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Morty; Ferdie; Filmore (raccoon); Slippery Joe; Light-Fingered Fred; firefighters; Chief O'Hara

First Line: Pluto! Have you seen the boys?

Synopsis: Morty and Ferdie bring home a raccoon for a pet, unaware that it has been trained by burglars to rob houses. Pluto suspects that something's fishy but is disregarded as being jealous of the new house pet.

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Pages: 8

Something About Whales

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational, non-fiction

Feature(s): Mickey Mouse Club

First Line: Twice each year, hundreds of gray whales pass within a few miles of the California coast.

Synopsis: Text feature on the believed evolution of the whale from land-dwelling mammal to "king of the depths".

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Single illustration accompanied by the 1970's version of the Mickey Mouse Club logo and symbol.

Caretaker Faker

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Li'l Bad Wolf; Big Bad Wolf [Zeke Wolf]; new owner of Morbit Mansion

First Line: Yipe! That's the last straw! This crummy shack is falling apart!

Synopsis: With his old shack falling down around him, Zeke takes a job as a caretaker of palatial Morbit Mansion - but eschews the caretaker's cottage and moves into the mansion while its owner is away.

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Pages: 4

Introducing Mouseketeer Lisa Whelchel

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography, non-fiction

Feature(s): Mickey Mouse Club

Character(s): Lisa Whelchel

First Line: Since Lisa Whelchel was eight years old, she has wanted to be an actress and has studied at the Casa Manana Playhouse in Fort Worth, Texas.

Synopsis: Biography of then-Mouseketeer Lisa Whelchel, later star of the television series "The Facts of Life" (1979-1988) and (as of 2022) host of ME-TV's "Collector's Call"

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Pages: 1

Notes: Two illustrations of Lisa Whelchel are accompanied by the 1970's version of the Mickey Mouse Club logo and symbol.