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Issue Details

Issue #1199
Published April 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and/or Del Connell (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "The Absent Minded Professor"

Genre Adventure
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
Reprinted in Walt Disney The Shaggy Dog and the Absent-Minded Professor [Movie Comics] (Gold Key, 1967 series) #nn

1 page Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor photo story "The Absent-Minded Professor"

Genre Adventure
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes In some editions of this issue, the photos have been replaced by an ad "Announcing the Wonderful New Dell Comics Contest."

32 page Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor story "The Absent-Minded Professor"

Genre Adventure
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils John Ushler
Inks John Ushler
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes In some variant editons of this issue, pages 16 and 17 (the centerfold) have been dropped and replaced by an ad for the "Dell Trading Post." On page 32, the final half-page panel has been dropped and replaced by an ad for Jumping Jacks Shoes.
Reprinted in Walt Disney The Shaggy Dog and the Absent-Minded Professor [Movie Comics] (Gold Key, 1967 series) #nn (August 1967); in Walt Disney's Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #6 (August 1987)

1 page story "Pioneer Inventors"

Characters Samuel Hopkins; Elias Howe; Alexander Graham Bell; Eli Whitney
Genre fact
Pencils John Ushler
Inks John Ushler
Letters typeset

1 page story "Fabulous Formula"

Characters Christopher Columbus; Charles Goodyear
Genre fact
Pencils John Ushler
Inks John Ushler
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset
Notes In some editions of this issue, the one-page story "Fabulous Formula" has been dropped and replaced with an ad for Twinkles cereal and a mail-away offer for three Twinkles "Magic Sponge Toys," available for 30ยข and one boxtop from Twinkles cereal. The sponge toys are in the shape of Twinkles the elephant, Sanford the parrot and Wilbur the monkey.