Mickey Mouse Weekly

Issue 605, 1951

Mickey Mouse Weekly was a weekly tabloid comic with full colour photogravure printing, launched by Willbank Publications, later Odhams Press, on 8 February 1936 and running for 920 issues (during World War II it was published fortnightly). To begin with it featured almost exclusively Walt Disney characters, about a third of which were American reprints, but as the years went on it also featured original characters. In 1957 Odhams lost the rights to Disney characters. The original, non-Disney material was continued in a new weekly, Zip. The Disney characters continued in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, published by Walt Disney Productions through Vernon Holdings until 1959, when it was renamed Walt Disney's Weekly, until 1961, when it closed.

Strips included:

• "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

• Wade Sampson, The Mickey Mouse Weekly story, Mouse Planet, 30 July 2008