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Issue Details

Issue #194
Published August 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE IN THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA, No. 194. Code number is M.M.O.S. #194-488. Copyright 1948 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). Apparently Mickey Mouse regular series #7?

Cover Details - "The World Under the Sea"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Genre funny animals; adventure
Pencils Harvey Eisenberg
Inks Harvey Eisenberg
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Mickey Mouse (Gold Key, 1962 series) #101 (June 1965); in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Friends (Gemstone, 2003 series) #287

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Egg Shopping"

Characters Mickey Mouse
Synopsis Mickey has trouble getting a carton of eggs from the store to his house without dropping them.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

20 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse and the World Under the Sea"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy; the King of Atlantis; Count Drakova
Synopsis Goofy invents a tank that will go underwater and fly. On a test run they find a huge air-filled undersea cavern with fields and a city. Their tank is stolen by Count Drakova, who somehow manages to render it invisible. Mickey and Goofy recover the tank and go to the city where they find that Count Drakova is threatening to make a man disappear if the King does not deliver a chest of gold to him.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Bill Wright
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Reprinted in Mickey Mouse (Gold Key, 1962 series) #101 (June 1965); in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Friends (Gemstone, 2003 series) #287

12 page Pluto story "Pluto's Problem"

Characters Pluto; Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie
Synopsis Pluto gets an inferiority complex after seeing the large and vicious animals in the zoo.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Harvey Eisenberg
Inks Harvey Eisenberg
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Silly Symphonies (Dell, 1952 series) #3 (3 pages removed); Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #6 (3 pages removed)

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Wire Recorder"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie; Pluto
Synopsis Mickey gets a new wire sound recorder, but Morty and Ferdie knock it over while playing with Pluto and he has to repair it.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. A wire recorder recorded sounds magnetically on spools of very thin wire, which could easily become snarled.

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Red and White House"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Synopsis Mickey and Goofy are told to paint a house red and white. Mickey paints his side white with red shutters, while Goofy paints his side red with white shutters.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Back cover.