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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics- Wheaties Set B #1
Publication Date: January 1950
 
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Publisher: FlagWestern
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Indicia Publisher: none
On Sale Date: 1950
Volume:
Pages: 32
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.00 USD
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Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: No indicia. Blurb on inside back cover encourages you to "Read about Disney characters every month in Walt Disney's Comics Magazine —— on all newsstands." Story starts on inside front cover and ends inside back cover. Back cover ad for Wheaties cereal.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 3 1/4 in. x 7 in.
Paper Stock: newsprint cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfect bound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Mickey Mouse and the Pharaoh's Curse

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anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse
At a museum on a dark and stormy night, a nervous Mickey guards an ancient sarcophagus.
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Mickey Mouse and the Pharaoh's Curse

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anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Boris (museum guard); Professor Dustibones (museum curator); two police officers
Gosh! Listen to it thunder, Pluto!
Professor Dustibones asks Mickey to guard a pharaoh's sarcophagus at his museum. The inscription on the sarcophagus translates to "Death and eternal sleep to the defilers of a pharaoh's tomb!", prompting all the museum's guards to quit when strange phenomena begin manifesting.
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FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories #557 [Direct] published March 1991
as Mickey Mouse and the Pharaoh's Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]For the reprint, the story is remounted to "three tiers per page", vs. the "one tier per page" format of the original printing. One reprint-page equals three original-pages, making the reprinted version ten pages, vs. the thirty pages of the original printing.
 
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Pages consist of 1-3 panels each.

This story is reminiscent of a Floyd Gottfredson newspaper strip continuity, with Mickey as a plucky little scrapper, and uses the character of "Professor Dustibones" from the Gottfredson continuity "Land of Long Ago" (1940-1941).

In this story, Professor Dustibones is depicted as a "human", as opposed to his original rendering as a more typical "Disney-dogface" character.

Particularly effective and well-done by artist Pabian is the scene where, armed with only a small flashlight, Mickey tiptoes through the museum's darkened Anthropology Section carefully avoiding the wax statues... until one of them comes to life and tries to behead him.

It should be noted, however, that even wax statues of anthropological exhibit-beings from ancient civilizations wear those "standard-issue Disney white gloves" in hands that otherwise wield clubs and swords.
Now Look! Coming Your Way - A Big Parade of 8 New Fun-Packed Comic Books!

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General Mills; Wheaties
Huey; Dewey; Louie; Dumbo; Mickey Mouse
Send today for Walt Disney's Comic Book Set "A"
Huey, Dewey, and Louie ride atop a flying Dumbo and hold high a banner which says "Announcing 8 More Comic Books! All New, Different!" Mickey Mouse is pictured with a box of Wheaties cereal.
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Ad for Wheaties cereal, sponsor of this giveaway premium, offering Disney character mini comic books. Comics offered are from Wheaties Set "A" and feature Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Grandma Duck, and Li'l Bad Wolf. A rare advertisement for Wheaties cereal that does not feature an athlete of any kind.

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