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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published February 1954
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 100
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)

Cover Details - "Playing music"

Characters Donald Duck; Mickey Mouse; Bongo; Gauchito; Pablo; Minnehaha
Genre Funny Animal; Cartoon
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Don MacLaughlin (painted)
Colors Don MacLaughlin (painted)

1 page New Tales from Old Mother Goose story "Mickey cuckoo"

Characters Mickey Mouse
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Letters Paul Murry

39 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey Mouse and the Beanstalk"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Goofy; the Golden Harp; Willie the Giant
Genre funny animals
Pencils Harvey Eisenberg
Inks Harvey Eisenberg
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #157 (July 1947)

1 page activity "Beanstalk Crossword"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Goofy
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

8 page Little Minnehaha story "Big Bear Scare"

Characters Little Minnehaha; Hiawatha; Bambi; Thumper
Script Roger Armstrong
Pencils Roger Armstrong
Inks Roger Armstrong
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #43

1 page activity "Try This Totem Pole"

Characters Hiawatha; Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Pluto
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

1 page activity "Goofy Gimmicks"

3 page Silly Symphony text story "More Kittens from a Silly Symphony"

Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset
Notes copyright 1941
Reprinted from ?

10 page Pablo, the Cold-blooded Penguin story "Pablo, the Cold-blooded Penguin"

Characters Pablo, the Cold-blooded Penguin
Genre Funny Animals; Cartoon
Inks Vic Lockman ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in New Mickey Mouse Club Fun Book, The (Golden Press, 1977 series) #11190 (October 1977); in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #3 (September 1968)

1 page activity "Penguin Play"

Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

8 page The Flying Gauchito story "The Flying Gauchito"

Pencils Fred Abranz
Inks Fred Abranz
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #10 (April 1969); in New Mickey Mouse Club Fun Book, The (Golden Press, 1977 series) #11190 (October 1977)

1 page activity "Flying Gauchito"

Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

2 page Mickey Mouse text story "Special Delivery"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse
Genre funny animals
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #22

2 page text story "Pluto Junior"

Characters Pluto; Pluto Junior
Genre funny animals
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #12

1 page activity "Tommy Tug's Travelogue"

Characters Tommy Tug
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

1 page activity "Tommy Tug's Tow Service"

Characters Tommy Tug
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

9 page Pluto story "Pluto's Problem"

Characters Pluto; Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Harvey Eisenberg
Inks Harvey Eisenberg
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Edited reprint. 3 pages removed.
Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #194

8 page Bongo story "The runaway circus bear"

Characters Bongo; Lumpjaw
Genre funny animals
Script Chase Craig
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Adapted from Bongo in the animated feature Fun and Fancy Free (1947).
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #82

1 page New Tales from Old Mother Goose story "Goofy selling pie"

Characters Donald Duck; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Letters Paul Murry

1 page Family Duck illustration "Climbing up the beanstalk"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Goofy; Ambrose; Bongo; Gauchito; Pablo; Pluto
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Don MacLaughlin (painted)
Colors Don MacLaughlin (painted)
Notes backcover