Mickey Mouse Weekly
Mickey Mouse Weekly was a weekly British tabloid comic, the first with full colour photogravure printing.[1] 920 issues were published by Willbank Publications and then Odhams Press between 8 February 1936 and 28 December 1957.[2][3] The comics were said to be "drawn in a slick, smooth style which was clearly influenced by American comics".[4] On 21 July 1951, Enid Blyton's The Secret Seven began appearing in the Mickey Mouse Weekly. It ceased production after Odhams lost the rights to the Disney characters. Non-Disney content was continued in the Zip comics, and Walt Disney then published Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, renamed Walt Disney's Weekly in 1959 and discontinued in 1961.[2]
Strips
Mickey Mouse Weekly contained the following notable strips:
- "Billy Brave" (Tony Weare, 1950–57)
- "Bongo" (Basil Reynolds)
- "Danny the Lamb" (Basil Reynolds)
- "Davy Crockett" (Jim Holdaway, 1955–57)
- "Donald Duck" (William Ward, 1936–57)
- "Don o' the Drums" (Ron Embleton, 1957)
- "Gordon Gale, Air Rover" (Stephen Chapman, 1936)
- "Kidnapped" (Joan Martin May, 1948)
- "Li'l Wolf" (Basil Reynolds)
- "The Lone Ranger" (reprinted American strip by Ed Kressy)
- "Mickey Mouse" (Wilfred Haughton, Victor Ibbetson, Basil Reynolds 1936-57)
- "Monty Carstairs, Special Agent" (Cecil Orr, Frank Bellamy, 1951–56)
- "Peter Puppet" (Basil Reynolds)
- "Robin Alone" (E. O., 1950–57)
- "Rogers' Rangers" (Ron Embleton, 1953)
- "Sea Shanties" (Reg Carter)
- "Secret in the Sands" (Frank Bellamy, 1953)
- "Shuffled Symphonies" (Basil Reynolds)
- "Skit, Skat and the Captain" (Basil Reynolds, 1936–40)
- "Strongbow the Mighty" (Ron Embleton, 1954–57)
- "Troubles of Father" (Reg Carter)
- "True Life Adventures" (Basil Reynolds)
- "Walt Disney's Living Desert" (Frank Bellamy, 1953)
References
- ↑ Hunt, Peter (15 April 2013). International Companion Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature. Routledge. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-134-87993-9.
- 1 2 Ghez, Didier (30 September 2011). Walt's People: Talking Disney With the Artists Who Knew Him. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-4653-6841-6.
- ↑ "United Kingdom: Mickey Mouse Weekly". Coa.inducks.org.
- ↑ Khoury, George (2004). True Brit: A Celebration of the Great Comic Book Artists of the UK. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-893905-33-7.
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