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Issue: Four Color #304
Publication Date: December 1950
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Issues: #304 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Tom-Tom Island
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: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Disclose Notes: Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Indicia title is "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Tom-Tom Island." Code date is W.D.O.S. #304-5012.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Tom-Tom Island

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Carl Buettner ?
Inker(s): Carl Buettner ?
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Thursday
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's serier #1/1955 published January 1955
as Mikke Mus på Tam-Tam-øya [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's månedshefte #10/1971 published January 1971
as Mikke Mus besøker Torsdag [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Part of "animated covers" series. Sections of back covers could be cut out and inserted into slits cut in the front cover and moved back and forth.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
First Line: Look... Minnie just made some pie!
Synopsis: Morty and Ferdie borrow Mickey's shoes when they swipe a pie from Minnie's windowsill.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's serier #1/1955 published January 1955
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; monochrome (black and red).
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Tom-Tom Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Riley Thompson
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Thursday; Friday; Minnie Mouse (cameo)
Synopsis: Mickey receives a request from Tom-Tom Island (somewhere by Africa) that he and Goofy visit his native friends Thursday and Friday. Goofy turns out to look exactly like the natives' idol "Teetotem" and they won't let him leave.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's serier #1/1955 published January 1955
as Mikke Mus på Tam-Tam-øya [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's månedshefte #10/1971 published January 1971
as Mikke Mus besøker Torsdag [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation, 7 pages removed
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 29
Disclose Notes: Friday is first introduced in Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip story "Mickey Mouse Meets Robinson Crusoe" (December 1, 1938, to April 13, 1939). Thursday, Friday's brother, is first introduced in Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip story "An Education for Thursday" (January 15, 1940, to April 20, 1940). The latter story is reprinted as "Mickey's Surprise Visitor" (Four Color #268, March 1950).
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Rescue of the Rangers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Hubbard
Inker(s): Al Hubbard
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): Melvin Millar [Tubby Millar]
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Synopsis: Mickey and Goofy become forest rangers at Sleepy Valley National Park. They soon learn that the last four rangers at the park have disappeared and receive a threat that they might be the next ones.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #9/1957 published April 1957
as Mikke Mus på farlig post [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 10-19
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #8/1957 published April 1957
as Mikke Mus på en farlig post [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1-9
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Mickey Mouse
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
First Line: Brrr-r! Plenty cold outside...
Synopsis: On a cold day, Mickey bundles Morty and Ferdie up snugly, only to regret it later at the movies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #12/1955 published December 1955
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; monochrome (black and red).
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How to make the front cover move...

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Buettner ?
Inker(s): Carl Buettner ?
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Thursday
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; color. Directions for cutting out a section of the back cover and inserting it in slits cut in the front cover; thus making a moving drum hand.

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