Donald and Mickey #25
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDonald and Mickey #25 (2nd September 1972) sits squarely in the early run of IPC's flagship Disney weekly — the title that revived Disney comics publishing in the United Kingdom after a fifteen-year gap following the 1957 closure of Mickey Mouse Weekly. As one of the first issues to serialise a modified reprint of Mickey Mouse #115 (Gold Key/Western) across three consecutive numbers, it illustrates the editorial practice that defined the series: taking American Disney material and restructuring it for a British weekly audience. That serialisation strategy — breaking full US comic-book stories into weekly instalments and editing them to fit the UK tabloid pace — became a template that influenced how licensed Disney content would be packaged for British children throughout the 1970s.
In "A Glass of Water," Mickey and Goofy take on a mystery that leads them from city streets to the hidden depths of the ocean, uncovering the long-lost city of Atlantis in the process. Penciled and inked by Paul Murry, this 1972 adventure blends classic detective work with underwater wonder, all wrapped in a cover by Murry himself.
In "The Great Bone Rush," a sudden discovery during freeway construction unleashes a frenzy as Scamp and his friends scramble to claim their share of a surprising bone field. When Scamp’s spot is stolen, he turns to a clever trick involving a balloon bone to outwit the bully—and turn the tide in his favor.
In "Lost Atlantis," Mickey and Goofy chase a gang of crooks through the city, only to follow their trail to a hidden underwater mystery—deep beneath the waves, they uncover the long-lost city of Atlantis. The adventure blends classic detective work with a splash of myth, as the duo ventures into a sunken world teeming with secrets.
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IPC Magazines launched Donald and Mickey on 4 March 1972, betting that a new generation of British children would respond to Disney comic strips that had not had a dedicated weekly home in the UK since the mid-1950s. The bulk of the content was sourced from Gold Key/Western Disney titles — principally Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse — and then edited, sometimes severely compacted, to fit the 24-page British weekly format. New adventure strips were commissioned specifically for the UK run, with early issues featuring artwork by Sam Fair on adaptations tied to Disney films of the period. Cover artwork and editorial pages were often freshly produced by British artists such as Colin Wyatt, giving the book a local visual identity even as its strip content was largely transatlantic reprint material.
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- Cover date: 2nd September 1972; published by IPC Magazines Ltd. as part of the series that launched 4th March 1972.
- The issue carried a modified, serialised reprint of a story from Mickey Mouse #115 (Gold Key/Western publishing), with that serial spanning issues #24, #25, and #26 of Donald and Mickey — confirmed by the Grand Comics Database.
- The series ran for 182 issues in total, from 4th March 1972 to 29th August 1975, making it one of IPC's more durable 1970s Disney licensed titles.
- The weekly was a 24-page publication, with 16 pages in full colour and 8 pages printed in blue ink on salmon-pink paper — an unusual production choice that gave it a distinctive look on UK newsagents' shelves.
- Interior content was primarily reprinted from American Gold Key/Western Disney comics, but new adventure strips (including early adaptations of Disney films) were created specifically for the UK market by British artists.
- IPC editors regularly shortened and restructured Gold Key stories to fit the weekly serialisation format, a practice noted by British comics historians as sometimes compacting the original narrative pacing.
- The title's success directly prompted IPC to spin off a companion title, Goofy, in October 1973, which ran 29 issues before merging back into Donald and Mickey.
- After 1975 the line evolved through several title changes — Mickey and Donald, then Mickey Mouse — before the Disney UK licence eventually passed to London Editions in February 1982.
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↩ Reprints Walt Disney's Scamp #10 (1959), Donald Duck #101 (1965), Mickey Mouse #115 (1967), Walt Disney Moby Duck #2 (1968), Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #83 (1969), Donald Duck #139 (1971)
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