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Mickey Mouse Weekly was a weekly British tabloid comic, the first with full colour photogravure printing. 920 issues were published by Willbank Publications and then Odhams Press between 8 February 1936 and 28 December 1957. The comics were said to be "drawn in a slick, smooth style which was clearly influenced by American comics". 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.

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

    Mickey Mouse Weekly Wikipedia
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