Saturday 30 January 2010

MISSING PANELS IN MICKEY SUNDAY REPRINT IN WDC


When Mickey Mouse Sunday newspaper comics were reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories magazine, they were re-formatted to fit the page layout and some panels from the original were often omitted in the process. For example, the above reprint of the Nov. 1st, 1942 Sunday in WDC&S no. 38 (Nov. 1943) is missing a total of 5 panels from the 12 panels of the original Sunday version.
Below are scans of the missing panels, as reprinted in Britain's Mickey Mouse magazine (wartime bi-weekly edition of Mickey Mouse Weekly) no. 399 (Oct. 20, 1945):

Note that only the third panel in the above scan is available in the WDC&S reprint..

..and only the central panel in the above scan.
The fifth missing panel is this reaction shot of Mickey, whose original place was just before the last panel:

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