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Issue: Four Color #296
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Title: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Private Eye for Hire
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
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): Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
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. 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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Private Eye for Hire

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Carl Buettner ?
?
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Reprinting
FlagFour Color #296 published November 1950
as Private Eye for Hire [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
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Part of the "Animated Cover" series.
Mattress Safety Mat for Washing Dishes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jim Pabian
Jim Pabian
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Jim Pabian
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
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.
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Miscellaneous
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Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Private Eye For Hire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse; Captain O'Hara
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
20
The Black Pearl Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al Hubbard
Al Hubbard
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Melvin Millar [Tubby Millar]
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Black Pete
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
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Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Mickey Mouse and the Tagalong Pup

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jim Pabian
Jim Pabian
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Jim Pabian
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Tagalong; Pluto; Mr. Meanie
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
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Letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Watchmaker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jim Pabian
Jim Pabian
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Jim Pabian
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Mickey owns a clock repair shop and advertises an "Any clock repaired for only one dollar!!" sale.
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FlagDonald Duck & Co #1/1956 published January 1956
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
How To Make the Front Cover Move..

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Carl Buettner ?
?
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Directions for making the front cover move.

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