Four Color #248
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn the 1949 Four Color #248, "Fixing Tire With Bubble Gum" delivers a delightfully odd mystery as Mickey Mouse and Goofy investigate a string of bizarre disappearances linked only by one strange detail: all the missing people had been watching television the night they vanished. Written, drawn, and inked by Bill Wright—handling every aspect of the interior art—this whimsical tale blends early TV-era paranoia with classic Disney charm. The cover, also by Wright, captures the surreal tone with a bold, hand-drawn image of Mickey staring in disbelief at a floating TV.
When Minnie vanishes and Mickey discovers dozens of others have disappeared under the same strange circumstances—each last seen near a television— he and Goofy uncover a chilling pattern: a mysterious sorcerer is using TV broadcasts to hypnotize people into coming to his castle. The only clue? A signal hidden in the static, and a villain whose magic is more modern than medieval.
Mickey, Mortie, and Ferdie take shelter in a storm-ravaged lighthouse—only to find it’s the secret hideout of the notorious pirate Black Pete, who’s trapped them in his island stronghold. With the sea raging and no escape in sight, the trio must outwit their swashbuckling captor before it’s too late.
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Reprinted in Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #74 (1951), Donald Duck & Co #25/1964 (1964), Kalle Anka & C:o #25/1964 (1964), Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald #10 (1989), Mickey Mouse #250 (1989), Donald Duck & Co #47/1989 (1989), Quella buffa dozzina I Grandi Autori dei Funny Animals USA #[nn] (2024), Four Color #248
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