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Issue: Mickey Mouse #156
Publication Date: June 1975
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Issues: #156 of 134 Issues (197 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/03/1974
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #117.
Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (506 = June, 1975). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (754 = April, 1975).

All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint.
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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:  
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Fishing Once Removed

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Morty
Synopsis: Morty catches fish not from the water, but from Mickey's creel.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Mickey Mouse #59 [10¢ Cover Price] published April 1958
was Fishing Once Removed [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Rare Stamp Search

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Morty; Ferdie; Professor Phil Atelist; unscrupulous stamp collector; old man in canoe; stamp collector from New York; various South American officials and locals
First Line: Hooray! I've won first prize in the Amateur Stamp Collecting Contest!
Synopsis: Mickey, Morty, and Ferdie travel to South America with Professor Phil Atelist on a mission to find an ultra-rare "One Cent Silver-Striped Magenta" stamp. Their efforts are stymied by rival stamp collectors, conniving locals; levels of bureaucracy... and one particularly unscrupulous stamp collector.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Mickey Mouse #74 published October 1960
was The Rare Stamp Search [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: This is a 15-page remake of Carl Barks' 32-page Donald Duck adventure "The Gilded Man" from Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #422 (September-October 1952) https://www.comics.org/issue/9608/ - copied in many places panel-for-panel and word-for-word, though omitting any business with "El Dorado, the Gilded Man" in favor of a different ending.

In the story, Mickey describes the sought-after mail sack from the year 1856 as being "96 years old." (Page 11, panel 5) 1856 plus 96 adds up to 1952, publication year for "The Gilded Man" - not 1960, original publication year for "The Rare Stamp Search".

The story's dialogue, already inaccurate, was also not updated and recalculated for this 1975 reprint, compounding the earlier error.

If one remake wasn't enough, it was also later remade as "The Rare Reward" for Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #1151 Mickey Mouse Album (November 1960-January 1961) https://www.comics.org/issue/15968/ with a length of only eight pages and a more condensed ending. Carl Fallberg is listed as the writer of this second remake, so it was likely that was given the task of adapting Barks' original story as well.
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Blanket Bonanza

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; dam construction foreman; various Native Americans
First Line: Looks as if Goofy is starting a new business venture!
Synopsis: Mickey and Goofy tour the American southwest trying to sell Goofy's load of surplus electrical equipment. When that doesn't pan out, Mickey takes a temporary job as a watchman for a newly constructed dam that will supply electric power to the region. The local Native Americans are used to a life without electricity, but Goofy finds a way to change that and create a demand for his cut-rate cords.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Mickey Mouse #79 published August 1961
was Blanket Bonanza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: In 1961, when this story was originally printed, it *may* have been possible that there were still remote regions of the United States without electrical power. However, it seems highly unlikely when this story was reprinted in 1975.

TO WHICH MERLIN HAAS ADDS THE FOLLOWING: Apparently some Native American reservations are still without access to electricity: "23 percent of Navajo Nation Homes and 35% of Hopi Indian Tribe homes are unelectrified" (Department of the Interior, 2023). So maybe not so unrealistic when first printed.

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