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Issue: Mickey Mouse #218
Publication Date: January 1984
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Issues: #218 of 134 Issues (197 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: WhitmanView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/01/1984
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Final Whitman issue.

Cover code: 90027. No cover date appears on cover or in indicia. On-sale date from The Comic Reader #217.

All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint. No interior ads in this issue. Ads are limited to inside and back covers.

The issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one reads 90027-208 (...with "208" translating to August, 1982). The previous issue, #217 had an issue code of 90027-206 (...with "206" translating to June, 1982).

Issue #216 had a published cover date of April, 1982, meaning that this issue (#218) and its predecessor (#217) were likely delayed (or on hiatus) for about two years, given the irregular suspensions and restarts of the Whitman line during its final years.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
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A Dog(gone) Kink in the Hose

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Pluto
Synopsis: Mickey is about to get a big wet surprise, as frisky Pluto turns the garden hose toward him.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Mickey Mouse #41 published April 1955
was Water Hose [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A small patch of grass is added to the extreme lower right of this cover that was not on the original printing. https://www.comics.org/issue/12021/cover/4/
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Super Goof

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Whitman Comics; Super Goof
Character(s): Super Goof
First Line: He’s on the right track in Whitman Comics
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Whitman house ad for Super Goof. Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney Super Goof (Western, 1965 series) #49 October 1978. Color ad on inside front cover.
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The Great Giveaway Mystery, Episode I

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, mystery
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Chief O'Hara; Mr. Spiffany; bank guard; beat cop; taxi driver
First Line: Didn't Chief O'Hara tell you what problem he wants us to help him with?
Synopsis: Chief O'Hara has Mickey and Goofy investigate a strange, unexplained "epidemic of generosity" that has hit the city, where people (including jewelry store owners and bank tellers) are giving away various things for no reason.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #12 (252) published September 1961
was The Great Giveaway Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 1 of 3 - but story is complete in this issue.
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The Great Giveaway Mystery, Episode II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, mystery
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; J. Pinpoint Broadloam (horticulturist); Skragg (butler); Mulch (gardener)
First Line: Mickey and Goofy have been called by Chief O'Hara to help figure out a strange epidemic of generosity which has gripped their town.
Synopsis: Following a lead on the "generosity epidemic", Mickey and Goofy run across an isolated countryside mansion, where Mickey is immediately ejected by the butler. Then, the gardener, posing as an innocent van driver, locks the pair in the back of the van and lets it roll off a steep cliff into a rushing river. Narrowly escaping their four-wheeled death trap, they make their way back to the mansion where Goofy boosts Mickey over the high stone wall. Inside Mickey meets J. Pinpoint Broadloam, an eccentric but harmless horticulturist... and recognizes Broadloam's gardener as the murderous van driver.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v22 #1 (253) published October 1961
was The Great Giveaway Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of 3 - but story is complete in this issue.
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The Great Giveaway Mystery, Episode III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, mystery
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Chief O'Hara; J. Pinpoint Broadloam (horticulturist); Skragg (butler); Mulch (gardener); Officer Smith; Officer Jones
First Line: While following a hunch during the investigation of a number of incidents involving bankers and jewelers who gave away money and valuables to perfect strangers for no apparent reason, Mickey thinks he has the explanation for it all...
Synopsis: Mickey, at last, discovers the reason for the unexplained "epidemic of generosity" that has hit the city, where people are handing over various things, valuable and otherwise, for no reason. A rare flower, bred by J. Pinpoint Broadloam, called the "Dizzy Daisy" emits a fragrance that causes a momentary impulse to give things away. Recognizing the problems such a mind-altering plant could cause, Broadloam keeps his "Dizzy Daisies" in a special locked greenhouse. Mickey also finds that Skragg the butler and Mulch the gardener have accessed the greenhouse to use the flowers for criminal gain.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v22 #2 (254) published November 1961
was The Great Giveaway Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of 3 - completing the story in this issue.
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A Whale of a Tale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Black Pete (see notes); Scuttle; chemist; two police officers
First Line: Our story begins in this humble little cottage at the edge of town.
Synopsis: Inspired by a radio program, Goofy embraces "positive thinking", becomes a beachcomber, and stumbles onto a deposit of ambergris - catching the thieving attentions of Pete and Scuttle.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v23 #3 (267) published December 1962
was A Whale of a Tale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story is billed as "Mickey and Goofy".

In accordance with the “Early Gold Key style”, this story has borderless panels with rectangular dialogue balloons.

In this story "Black Pete", as he was named in the original printing, is renamed "Dirty Pete".
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Daffy Duck

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Whitman Comics; Daffy Duck
Character(s): Daffy Duck
First Line: He’ll quack you up in Whitman Comics
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Whitman house ad for Daffy Duck. Reproduces the cover illustration for Daffy Duck (Western, 1962 series) #114 April 1978. Color ad on inside back cover.
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Meet your favorite comic characters and enjoy exciting adventure in... Whitman Comics.

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Whitman Comics
First Line: Fun for everyone!!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Whitman Comics. No characters or properties are pictured. Color ad on back cover.

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