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

1. Hunt, Peter (15 April 2013). International Companion Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature. Routledge. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-134-87993-9.
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.
3. "United Kingdom: Mickey Mouse Weekly". Coa.inducks.org.
4. 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.

External links

• 920 issues
• Page at Mouseplanet.com