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Issue: Four Color #296
Publication Date: October 1950
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Issues: #296 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Private Eye for Hire
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/22/1950
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MICKEY MOUSE in PRIVATE EYE FOR HIRE, No. 296." Code number is M.M.O.S. #296-5010. Copyright 1950 by Walt Disney Productions. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1950 Pamphlets, page 462. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
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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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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagFour Color #296 published November 1950 as Here's How To Make the Front Cover Move! [Activity on Interior Page(s)] back cover
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Cover, Front
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Private Eye for Hire

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFour Color #296 published November 1950
as Private Eye for Hire [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Part of the "Animated Cover" series.
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Mattress Safety Mat for Washing Dishes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis: Mortie and Ferdie intentionally drop dishes so they won't have to wash them. Mickey foils their scheme by putting a mattress by the sink.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Private Eye For Hire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Captain O'Hara
Synopsis: Mickey becomes a private investigator. A man hires him to trail his wife to keep her from cheating on her diet. While doing that Mickey becomes involved with a gang of shoplifters.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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The Black Pearl Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Black Pete
Synopsis: While vacationing in Shark Bay, Mickey and Goofy find a message in a bottle that has a map to a treasure in a sunken ship in the bay. Black Pete has disguised himself as a hermit on the shore of the bay and tries to steal the treasure.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Disclose Notes: Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Mickey Mouse and the Tagalong Pup

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Tagalong; Pluto; Mr. Meanie
Synopsis: Mickey finds a small pup that whistles. The pup has run away from the circus and Mickey returns him and receives a reward. The pup runs away again and when Mickey returns him this time, the circus owner has him arrested, thinking he has stolen the pup to receive another reward.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Watchmaker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse
Synopsis: Mickey owns a clock repair shop and advertises an "Any clock repaired for only one dollar!!" sale.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #1/1956 published January 1956
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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How To Make the Front Cover Move..

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Directions for making the front cover move.

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