Sunday, December 4, 2011

Mickey Mouse "Holiday Special" Magazine

This 64-page Mickey Mouse Holiday Special is a British publication copyrighted 1938-39. It was produced by Odhams Press Ltd, the same folks who published the long-running Mickey Mouse Weekly. Measures 9" x 12.5". Original price sixpence.

Front Cover image via Hake's.


The Christmas themed magazine includes a number of full page illustrations, comic strip reprints, a “Mother Goose In Hollywood” feature, “What’s New With Disney” article, plus some hip vintage ads. Snow White and the boys appear on the following pages.

Inside front cover - Cool ads for a Mouse Pathescope "Ace" and also Williams Ellis & Company Snow White jigsaws. See the puzzles in another Archive entry.



Page 3 - Dopey coloring page...



Page 8 - Happy's Howlers...



Page 14 and 15 - Wise Quacks and Horse Laughs...



Page 19 - Dopey's Dictionary...



Page 27 - Sleepy's Slumber Stories...



Page 36 - Witchery magic tricks...



Page 40 and 41 - Seven Dwarfs' Lucky Sevens Game and Snow White's Party Page......



Page 52 - Sleepy and Doc puzzles...



Page 57 - Snow White / Mickey Mouse embroidery advertisement...

Page images courtesy of the Rick Payne Collection via dadric's attic.


On the back cover was an ad for the “Shuffled Symphonies” card game (see next post).

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