Despite being the first Gold Key issue, Mickey Mouse #85 exhibits no aspects of the "Early Gold Key Look" where all stories have rectangular dialogue balloons, wider gutters, and some have borderless panels while others have panels bordered by pastel-colored rectangles. Instead, the interior stories look similar to those in prior Dell issues. The only exception to this is the Gyro Gearloose one-pager on the inside back cover which utilizes borderless panels and rectangular dialogue balloons.
The following issue, #86, would be the first issue of Mickey Mouse to exhibit the "Early Gold Key Look".
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