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Mickey Mouse (1951–1993)
Mickey Mouse Magazine (since 1993)
Mickey Mouse magazine logo
description Comic book publication
language German
publishing company Egmont Ehapa Media ( Germany )
Headquarters Berlin
First edition August 29, 1951
Frequency of publication biweekly
Sold edition 67,643 copies
( IVW 2/2020)
Widespread edition 68,266 copies
( IVW 2/2020)
Range 0.627 million readers
(2010)
Editor-in-chief Marko Andric
executive Director Klaus-Thorsten Firnig
Web link micky-maus.de

The Mickey Mouse magazine is a comic - magazine , which since 1951 in Ehapa appear Publishing House and comics from Disney includes production, especially with the characters Donald Duck , Mickey Mouse and other residents of Duckburg . Since issue 18/1993 the magazine has had the subtitle Magazine .

From the beginning, the stories about Donald Duck took up more pages than the eponymous mouse. The stories were translated by Erika Fuchs , who was the editor-in-chief of Mickey Mouse until 1988 and who coined sayings such as "Nothing too swear for the engineer" or popularized the so-called inflective ("schepper", "klirr", "groan").

Frequency of publication

The series was initially published monthly, supplemented by Mickey Mouse special issues, which were initially irregular and later also appeared monthly, until 1955 . In 1956 the frequency was increased to biweekly; the special issues were discontinued. Longer stories, which were previously intended for the special issues, have since been published as sequels over several issues. With issue 26 in 1957, it was switched to a weekly publication. However, over the decades the day of the week on which the magazine is published has changed several times. Since September 11th, 2009 the publication date has been Friday. On January 4, 2013, a magazine appeared for the first time after two weeks, which has been the case several times a year since then. On April 1, 2016 (with the number 14/2016) a regular publication frequency of three times in four weeks began, that is, every fourth week is skipped, but the number that appears before is counted as a double number. The magazine has been published every two weeks since issue 35/2017 (August 25, 2017).

Year (s) Number of issues Frequency of publication
1951 4th monthly (usually last Wednesday of the month)
1952-1955 12
1956 26th twice a month (January 1956), two weeks (from February 8, 1956)
1957 28 weekly (from No. 25/1957), Saturdays
1958 51
1959-2011 52-53 from No. 53/1977 on Tuesdays, from No. 6/1984 on Saturdays, from No. 37/1986 on Thursdays, from No. 3/1988 on Wednesdays, from No. 9/1988 on Thursdays, from No. 4/2003 on Tuesdays, from No. 3/1988 on Wednesdays, from No. 2/2008 on Mondays, since No. 38/2009 on Fridays
2012-2013 51
2014 49
2015 51
2016 40
2017 35
since 2018 26th

title

Unlike in most non-German-speaking countries, the title character of the Disney series is not Donald Duck, but Mickey Mouse, although this only takes up a small part of the pages. The reason was that Micky was much better known in German-speaking countries in 1951.

While Mickey Mouse films ran successfully in Germany from 1930 onwards, only one cartoon with Donald in a supporting role was shown there until the end of the war, because Disney stopped exporting further cartoons to the German Reich in 1935.

The German-language magazine's predecessors in Europe were the Disney magazines Topolino (from 1932) in Italy, the Le Journal de Mickey (JDM) , which appeared in France from 1934, and the British Mickey Mouse Weekly (MMW) from February 8, 1936.

"Mickey Mouse special issues"

These are single issues which only have the wording "Micky Mouse" or "Micky Mouse special issues" in their names. One can therefore speak of a separate series of issues. The idea was later continued as the Mickyvision series from 1967 and only a few special issues were published after that. These booklets were only published as additional boxes to the first Mickey Mouse booklets as part of the Ehapa reprint series. Much of these special editions were republished in later years. These booklets are in the original very popular collector's items and should not be confused with the reprints:

  1. 1951-12: Cinderella (Dan Gormley)
  2. 1952-12: Alice in Wonderland (Riley Thompson, Bob Grant)
  3. 1953-04: Mickey Mouse - In the Land of Giants (Harvey Eisenberg)
  4. 1953-06: Donald on a North Pole trip ( Carl Barks )
  5. 1953-06: Mickey Mouse, the big vacation special (Harvey Eisenberg et al.)
  6. 1953-08: Micky's Guest from Africa ( Floyd Gottfredson )
  7. 1953-10: Peter Pan (Al Hubbard)
  8. 1953–11: Christmas special (Carl Barks)
  9. 1953-12: Donald Duck and Peter Pan ( Dick Moores , Jack Bradbury )
  10. 1954–01: Dagobert Duck the "poor old man" (Carl Barks)
  11. 1954–02: Peter Pan and Captain Huck (Bob Grant)
  12. 1954–03: Little Eagle Eye (Lee Hooper, Harvey Eisenberg)
  13. 1954–03: The sword and the rose
  14. 1954-04: Goofy the Master Sheriff (Al Hubbard)
  15. 1954–05: The Little Bad Wolf (Harvey Eisenberg)
  16. 1954-06: The big vacation special (Harvey Eisenberg, Dick Moores and others)
  17. 1954-07: Duck family on vacation trip (Carl Barks)
  18. 1954-08: Mickey Mouse - Goofy and the Wonder Car (Dick Moores)
  19. 1954-10: Donald Duck and the golden helmet (Carl Barks)
  20. 1954–11: Mickey Mouse - Adventure from the Double Cross Farm ( Paul Murry )
  21. 1954–11: Christmas special (John Morin Bradbury, Paul Murry, Al Hubbard)
  22. 1954–12: ​​Christmas for Kummersdorf (Carl Barks)
  23. 1955–01: Micky and Googy in Africa (Riley Thompson)
  24. 1955–02: Donald Duck - The Snake Charmer (Frank McSavage, Carl Barks)
  25. 1955–03: Dagobert Ducks 13 trillion (Carl Barks)
  26. 1955-04: Pluto (Paul Murry, Tony Strobl )
  27. 1955–05: Karlo the cat (Al Hubbard, Paul Murry et al.)
  28. 1955-06: The big holiday special (Phil De Lara, Paul Murry)
  29. 1955-07: Donald Duck in the mud bath (Dick Moores, John Morin Bradbury)
  30. 1955-08: Donald Duck in Honolulu (Tony Strobl, Phil De Lara)
  31. 1955-09: Mickey Mouse in the Wild West (Tony Strobl, Phil De Lara, Paul Murry)
  32. 1955-10: Dagobert Duck (Carl Barks)
  33. 1955–11: Christmas special (Tony Strobl, Frank McSavage)
  34. 1955–12: Donald Duck and the Christmas Trees (Dick Moores, John Morin Bradbury et al.)

Editorial part

In the editions 1/1956 to 1/1976 there was an editorial section on the middle pages of Mickey Mouse , initially as MMK Nachrichten (MMK = Micky Mouse Club ), later MMK Zeitung and MMK Magazin . Based on the results of a reader survey in 1975, the editorial section was removed from the magazine after 993 issues. However, the last MMK magazine in issue 1/1976 had the number 995 because in 1961 the numbers 216 and 217 were accidentally skipped.

Since the 15/1990 issue, every issue has again contained an editorial section (though distributed over the entire issue), consisting of jokes, TV program information and advertisements for other Disney media.

With the 7/1995 issue, the “SPASS TV” section with selected program recommendations on 10 pages was introduced as an integrated TV magazine. After this section in the meantime even comprised 12 pages in later editions, it was then gradually reduced to 6 pages. From the 1/1997 issue, the “SPASS TV” section only had two pages until it was finally given up completely after the 9/1998 issue.

At the beginning of the 2000s, in cooperation with Tessloff Verlag, topics from the non-fiction book series Was ist Was were presented in loose succession on a double page .

In the “mouse box”, selected drawings by children, letters to the editor and the “fan of the week” are displayed along with a photo. With MM 5/2014 the scope was reduced from two pages to one page. Since then, the “picture of the week” and the “fan of the week” have alternated.

In the summer of 2008, stern.de reported on repeated reprints of " old man's jokes ", in which traditional gender roles - clichés were conveyed, and cited a critical statement from the Bremen regional women’s commissioner Ulrike Hauffe. The joke page is always on the last page.

“Special”: The content of “Special” is very different - competitions , sweepstakes, promotions, but also guest appearances by celebrities or TV presenters can be part of it.

In "Crazy World" bizarre news and records were published, most of which were joke drawings. "Crazy World" was discontinued in issue 29/2016.

The "Mouse Mix" page was placed after the table of contents. Photos and drawings from earlier episodes of “Crazy World” were given new comments. There was a weatherman and various series of slogans, u. a. " The good Franz " with Bauernregeln , " Gundel glass ball " with a joke horoscopes and " pie of the week ." "Mouse Mix" replaced the previous page "Comedy". This page has not been continued since 2014.

From February 2015 (MM 06/15) there was a genial section, which was renamed to WOW in summer 2016 with MM 28/29/2016 , this section was then discontinued from the 01/2018 issue. To this day only WTT (jokes, tips and tricks) and the joke page remain .

With the “Mouse Tips” a column appeared until 2017 that contained suggestions on current events, leisure activities , ( online ) games , movies, etc. It was later redesigned to contain a riddle and advertisement .

With “Current” up to and including the 27/2016 edition, a column appeared that dealt with current events or news (important football match , films , TV series , other events such as festivals, etc.).

A puzzle section appeared by MM 28/29/2016 .

From 2014 to 2017, a rubric appeared under the name “ Disney Channel ”, which showed highlights of the Disney Channel's TV program . In the course of time it was shortened from two sides to one side.

Enten-Kurier : On the last page of the Micky Mouse magazine is the Enten-Kurier , a (fictional) tabloid that reports on the latest events and trends in and around Duckburg . Dussel has a column there called Dussel thinks! Where he - not entirely serious - tips like puns seem, published, z. B. “What to do if you get chills in your limbs? - Take away his driver's license! ”Or“ What to do if someone looks banned? - To call the police!". There is also a quote of the week , in the past there was also an "entoskop" (modification of " horoscope "). Humorous advertisements such as advertisements for holidays on “Knallorca”, “Los Enteles”, “Tahihi” and “Weitfortistan” or advertisements from the tank crackers with their prisoner numbers or from Gundel Gaukeley are also included. Sometimes the duck courier is replaced by advertising, the duck kicker (fictional soccer magazine for soccer world championships - or European championships ) or other things.

particularities
  • In Enten-Kurier 94 (MM 7/2012) the headline "Muzzle for the mouse - dog president Wuff tries to prevent reports" alluded to the affair surrounding the then Federal President Christian Wulff , who called Bild chief reporter Kai Diekmann and threatened him , he should report on the accusation of taking advantage of Wulff.
  • In the duck couriers 245-248 (MM-M 28-31 / 2015) there was a crossword puzzle and a postcard to cut out, matching the topic of summer .
  • In MM 37/2015 there was a timetable instead of the duck courier .
  • In Enten-Kurier 94 (MM-M 10/2017) the police in Duckburg published the “most stupid and unimportant emergency calls” under the # no emergency call.
Further editorial pages
  • On-line
  • Games
  • movie theater

Side dishes

General supplements

In the 29/1958 issue, a cardboard sun visor was included for the first time , previously it was mostly loose advertising supplements, such as the first Gütermann sewing silk brochure that was included in 1955 .

In the issues 51/1959 to 24/1963 there were two loosely enclosed paper strips with additional comic pages. You could put together an additional comic book from several of these strips. In issues 37–48 / 1966, more strips appeared.

In 1976, a handicraft sheet was introduced as a regular supplement , which was gradually replaced by more complex gimmicks such as iron-on transfers, sound foils or whoopee pillows in the mid-1980s .

In 1999 Ehapa-Verlag bought the competing comic series Yps , which was sold together with an enclosed gimmick - often a plastic toy - welded in foil. In 2000 Yps was discontinued. Mickey Mouse, issue 28/1999, was also offered for the first time with a loosely enclosed toy sealed in foil, which has been repeated at irregular intervals since then. Well-known Yps gimmicks such as the Tadpole Shrimp can also be found regularly in Mickey Mouse , although they were already in earlier Mickey Mouse magazines (e.g. Tadpole Shrimp in 6/1994).

There is a tendency for certain side dish extras to be repeated regularly. A detective set is enclosed about once a year , the composition of which is usually very similar. An adventure set or survival set is often included even in midsummer, primarily before the start of the big school holidays (summer holidays) . In addition, many joke articles and magic trick gimmicks are repeated every three years .

Trading cards

overview

expenditure Trading cards series
15/1990 - 26/1994 "Micky's collection series"
27/1994 - 24/1996 "The clever book" (1st series)
25/1996 - 36/1996 "Mickey Mouse Cards Collection"
37/1996 - 14/1997 "Duckburg from A - Z"
24/1997 - 5/1998 "The clever book - Survival" (2nd series)
29 - 41/1997 "Bundesliga footballer"
35 - 49/1997 "Dinosaur"
46/1997 - 5/1998 "Stars * movie! TV! Music!"
12 - 23/1998 "Detectives - The Handbook"
32 - 38/1998 "Entenhausen coin collection"
16/1999 - 30/1999 "The ultimate cheats collection"
40 - 49/1999 "Guinness World Records 2000 - Millennium Collection"
2 - 4/2000 "Pokémon - Tips + Tricks"
12 - 28/2000 "The clever book 2000" (3rd series)
18/2001 - 31/2001 "The new clever book" (4th series)

Information on the trading card series

In the first edition based on a fundamentally revised concept (15/1990; see also above), in addition to the usual insert (gimmick), trading cards (approx. 8.5 cm × 11.5 cm) were included for the first time . With a few exceptions in 1990, this series was continued for four years up to issue 26/1994.

From issue 27/1994, a new series of trading cards started with the supplement “The Clever Book”, which was included for almost two years up to issue 24/1996.

With the following magazine 25/1996 the "Mickey Mouse Cards Collection" was introduced, which was discontinued after 12 issues (36/1996).

This was followed with issue 37/1996, the collection series "Duckburg from A - Z" with all the well-known Disney characters from Duckburg and the surrounding area, which was completed with issue 14/1997.

Then came Mickey Mouse magazine 24/1997, the continuation of the series "The clever book" with trading cards exclusively on the topic of "Survival", for which there was also a separate folder as a supplement. In addition, this series was regularly accompanied by editorial contributions on the topic. This collection series ended with issue 5/1998.

At the same time, there were trading cards in issues 29 - 41/1997 with selected football players from the Bundesliga teams at the time, trading cards with various dinosaurs from 35 - 49/1997 and also from issue 46/1997 - 5/1998 under the theme "Stars * Movie! TV! Music! ”Trading cards from popular stars of the time, so that there were now three different series of trading cards at the same time.

The following series of trading cards were only continued for a few issues: In the twelve issues 12-23/1998 there was the series "Detective - The Handbook" and from 32-38/1998 the "Entenhausen coin collection" with seven small trading cards on which various play money coins (thalers and cruisers) were glued. With issue 16/1999, “The Ultimate Cheats Collection” started with a collector's box and square trading cards with tips and tricks for the most popular video and console games at the time, which was ended again in issue 30/1999. This was followed by a collection series from 40 - 49/1999 as an extract from the Guinness Book of Records with a collection book "Guinness World Records 2000 - Millennium Collection". The trading card series "Pokémon - Tips + Tricks" was only available for 3 issues of No. 2 - 4/2000.

The collection “The clever book 2000” started with the magazine 12/2000. Instead of the usual trading cards made of sturdy paper (cardboard), each magazine had a page with four sections to cut out from different subject areas. This series ended with issue 28/2000. From issue 18/2001 to 31/2001, trading cards were once again included as index cards on various topics for the folder “The new clever book”. Thereafter, no more trading cards were enclosed in this form.

Three years later, in cooperation with McDonald’s , eight trading cards were printed in issues 10/2004 to 13/2004 to be cut out, which together formed a quartet game . A year later, a quartet game on the topic of dinosaurs was published based on the same concept in issues 10/2005 to 13/2006. In issues 34/2005 to 37/2005 there were index cards to be cut out for an MM lexicon on the subject of "Flying and Aviation".

In 2014, packets of “ Duck Stars ” cards were included that could also be purchased individually. Issues 32-38 / 2014 included special cards that could only be obtained from Mickey Mouse magazine .

Extra booklets

Particularly popular among children were the editions where an additional magazine was included as a supplement, as you got almost twice as much magazine for your money. Occasionally, however, Ehapa raised the price for issues with an extra booklet - there were only no additional costs for subscribers. The extra issues were also reprints (see below) or other issues.

Supplements "The most beautiful films from Walt Disney"

In three Mickey Mouse magazines there were 40-page extra issues as supplements, in which selected Disney productions were presented in the form of illustrated short stories as "The most beautiful films from Walt Disney".

  • 13/1991; Episode 1: Arielle, Bernard & Bianca, Donald playing golf (comic), Oliver & Co, Pinocchio, Snow White; in addition a reduced film poster by Arielle
  • 41/1992; Episode 2: Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Bernhard & Bianca in Kangaroo Land, Susi & Trolch, The Witch and the Wizard, Aristocats, Basil - The Great Mouse Detective
  • 24/1993; Episode 3: Bambi, Robin Hood, Jungle Book, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Cap & Capper

The order of the short stories in these booklets differs from the order of the film titles indicated on the title pages.

Supplements "EXTRA-BLATT"

Under the title “The funniest newspaper for cool kids!” There was a supplement “EXTRA-BLATT” in three issues in the year 2000, the presentation of which was based on typical tabloid newspapers.

  • 009/2000: No. 1 “Sensational! First Gameboy planted! "
  • 13/2000: No. 2 "More money for everyone!"
  • 17/2000: No. 3 “Finally! Full of good school excuses! "

Extra issues in the present

There are currently special occasions such as B. Christmas or Easter extra comic books or puzzle books in the Mickey Mouse , which have a larger format than the Mickey Mouse .

  • In issue 51/2015 a reprint by Donald Duck & Co. No. 15 was enclosed as an extra.
  • A reprint of Micky Maus English Edition 05/2015 was included as an extra in issue 52-53 / 2015 .
  • In 2016, Mickey Mouse Extra 1-3 was a series of extra magazines in Mickey Mouse: Enclosed were issues 1 - The best jokes to collect (MM 22/2016), 2 - The best comics to collect (MM 29/2016 ) and 3 - The best tricks to collect (MM 46/2016).
  • Issues 19-22 / 2018 included extra booklets with comics for the reboot of the DuckTales series DuckTales (2017) .

Anniversary editions

number output date
1 01/1951 August 29, 1951
500 30/1965 July 24, 1965
1000 08/1975 February 22, 1975
1500 38/1984 September 15, 1984
2000 16/1994 April 14, 1994
2500 47/2003 November 11, 2003
3000 24/2013 0June 7, 2013

Issues with special features

  • 10/1986 : In this issue there was a key ring made of soft plastic in the shape of a bitten butter biscuit . This issue has been withdrawn because there was a risk that small children could bite off and swallow parts of this key fob.
  • 09/1988 : For the first time, the actor Dieter Hallervorden shows a real person and not a drawing from the Disney universe on the cover. Hallervorden played a key role in the production of the enclosed gimmick for the 1st Mickys Stupid record.
  • 23–42 / 1988 : Separate Austrian editions of these numbers appeared that contained different cover pictures and not quite the same comics.
  • 44/1988 : The issue was published on the occasion of the “60 Years of Mickey Mouse” anniversary as a double issue with a 32-page supplement called the “anniversary issue”.
  • 10/1989 : There were 2 Donald stickers as an insert in this issue, although the previous week in the magazine 9/1989 a fitness tester was announced on the inside and on the back with an illustration as a gimmick.
  • 26/1990 : For the first time, a cover picture is used on the magazine cover that was already shown on the front page of an earlier magazine (21/1987). The motif shows Donald in a floating tent with several balloons tied to the top pole of the tent. Only the coloring of the tent and some balloons are not identical.
  • 27/1990 : This magazine was published as a double issue with a 40-page reprint of the comic "Mickey Mouse and the spirit of the gorilla", which was published for the first time between April 5 and April 7 under the original title "In Search of Jungle Treasure". August 1937 was published in American newspapers.
  • 3/1991 : In this issue there for the first time as a side dish a Entenhausen -Poster showing a comprehensive map that drew loud editorial to the inventor Gyro Gearloose. Further city maps of Duckburg followed as a supplement in issues 38/1996 and 36/2006.
  • 25/1994 : The Ducks family tree was included as a poster for the first time in this issue . The family tree is based on the story "Uncle Dagobert: His Life, His Billions", which was published in loose succession from issue 34/1993. The individual family members were enclosed with the issue and the following issue 26/1994 as stickers.
  • 17/1995 : In the sequel story "Dagobert Duck - Journey to the Center of the Earth", contrary to the usual layout principles in Disney Comics on page 50, all 12 illustration fields ( panels ) are square, the same size, symmetrically arranged and almost identically colored. This section (sequence) shows the fall of Dagobert Duck in an earth tunnel.
  • 32/1997 : In this edition, the back of the enclosed trading cards were incorrectly printed due to a production error .
  • 39/1999 : An 18-page “special action comic” with the title “Donald Duck - A legendary explosive” is integrated in the magazine, with a new page layout implemented. The panels were arranged outside of the usual grid. Further comics were published according to this concept in 40/1999 ("The Pattern Detectives"), 45/1999 ("The Struggle for Peace") and 49/1999 ("The Three Dirty Sparrows").
  • 32/2000 : This issue was referred to on the front page as “Das Billionheft ” because, according to an editorial note on page 3, one billion Mickey Mouse magazines have been sold since 1951 . However, due to a typographical or printing error, this explanation was not entirely complete.
  • 12/2004 : This issue warns that the blowpipe from issue 11 should no longer be used, as there is a risk of suffocation when inhaling.
  • 14/2005 : The back of this issue was also designed as a title page, but aligned in a twisted manner. Pages 69 to 75 were also rotated. The magazine was advertised as “The crazy, twisted April issue”.
  • 26/2005 : In this booklet, an insert was used to warn against possible heating of the plastic handle of the light stick that was enclosed in issue 22/2005.
  • 42/2005 : Micky and Goofy are shown as Asterix and Obelix on the front page . The magazine also contains editorial information about Asterix, an Asterix quiz and the short story “Gallic School Beginning”, which until then was only published in the anthology Asterix chats from school . The background for this rather unusual magazine concept is a promotion for the 33rd Asterix volume Gallien in danger , which was also published by EHAPA at the time .
  • 4/2015 : In this edition the table of contents has been moved from page 3 to page 2, swapping the place with the description of the extras. In addition, there is a panel from the comic book story . In addition, a “start laugh” (comic made up of three panels) was added on page two and a “final laugh” (also a comic made up of three panels) was added on the penultimate page.
  • 18-20 / 2015 : These issues had red pages due to a superhero series.
  • 28/29/2016 : This double edition heralded a turning point: the table of contents was slightly changed. " WOW " replaced " Genial ". The puzzles have been removed. The Mickey Mouse logo on the cover has been changed (font rounder instead of square as before), and the addition magazine , as with the DDSH , has been turned to the side and is now next to the "Mickey Mouse" logo instead of the previous one. In addition, a white stripe was added to the left of the cover to advertise the Mickey Mouse magazine website .

predecessor

As early as December 1936, the Swiss Bollmann-Verlag published the first edition of a German-language Micky Mouse newspaper . By October 1937, 18 issues and a sample number were published at irregular intervals.

Collector's value

According to the General German Comic Price Catalog (2010 edition), the collector's value of the first edition from 1951 in very good condition is 12,000 euros. The magazine is thus in fourth place among the most expensive German-language comic books. Even with minor damage (e.g. kinks), which can hardly be found in a book that is more than 60 years old, the collector's value drops considerably.

The so-called zero number , a four-page advertising sheet that was distributed to newsagents in August 1951, has the same value. Very few surviving copies of this advertising leaflet are known. A reprint took place in 2001 in the journal Die Speechblase No. 181.

Reprints of the first Mickey Mouse books

Reprints as supplements

From August 1985 onwards, reprints of the first published Mickey Mouse booklet "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse - The Colorful Monthly Book" were added as extra booklets to some issues at irregular intervals .

  • 32/1985 : Mickey Mouse No. 1 - September 1951
  • 14/1986 : Mickey Mouse No. 2 - October 1951
  • 07/1987 : Mickey Mouse No. 3 - November 1951
  • 50/1987 : Mickey Mouse No. 4 - December 1951
  • 14/1988 : Mickey Mouse No. 1 - January 1952
  • 28/1988 : Mickey Mouse No. 2 - February 1952
  • 51/1988 : Mickey Mouse No. 3 - March 1952

Because not all reprints have been clearly identified as such, these - now up to 30 years old - reprints are often mistaken for valuable originals. You can recognize these reprints by the missing price imprint above the issue number and the month of publication on the title page.

In addition, a reprint of the first Mickey Mouse booklet has so far been enclosed in two further editions.

  • 16/1994 : Mickey Mouse No. 1 (imprint "Reprint 1994" on the title page)
  • 36/2001 : Mickey Mouse No. 1 ("Reprint 2001" printed on the back)

Other reprints

There were further reprints of the first four issues in 1988 together in an anniversary special volume and in 1999 in the "Mickey Mouse Reprint Cassette - Special Issues 3 & 1951" with the imprint "(c) des Reprint 1999 Disney Enterprises, Inc." the last cover page at the bottom.

The booklets from 1952 were already published in 1996 as reprints in the "Mickey Mouse Reprint Cassette - Year 1952" with the imprint "(c) des Reprint 1996 Disney Enterprises, Inc." on the bottom cover page.

Up to 2004, the complete volumes 1951 to 1957 as well as the special issues for the collector's market were reprinted in the same form in small editions in eleven reprint cassettes. These editions have a reprint notice on the back or under the imprint.

From 2000 the first issues were reprinted in 12 books. Each book contained the reprint of six booklets. The special issues were sorted chronologically.

Booklets are occasionally offered on the collector's market in which the price imprint was subsequently stamped on or the back was torn off with the reprint notice. While the first case is an obvious attempt at fraud, a booklet that is missing the back can by all means be an original. Information about this can be given by the type of paper, which is different in the reprints than in the original editions. In addition, the reprints are usually recognizable by the continuous use of capital letters in the speech bubbles.

Reprints of individual stories

Since 1966, individual comics have been reprinted in series such as The Greatest Stories by Donald Duck - Special Issue . This applies in particular to the Donald Duck stories drawn by Carl Barks . The texts are often revised here.

In the 1992 to 2004 published comic books series Carl Barks Library were collected works of Carl Barks published. All comics contained there have already appeared one or more times in Mickey Mouse magazine (or in the side series Goofy magazine ). In contrast to the TGDDSH , which publishes each Barks story only once in the course of its publication history, it can happen that Barks stories are reprinted several times in Mickey Mouse magazine . Since 2010, the Duckburg Edition has been a series of comics albums that contain reprints from the Barks Library and thus also from Mickey Mouse .

Illustrator

Price and scope

Development of the magazine price

The first edition appeared on August 29, 1951 at a price of 75 pfennigs, 4 schillings, 80 cents or 75 francs for the Saar area. The price was first increased to 80 pfennigs in 1964 and has been increased almost every year since then. In 2015 the price was € 3.50 in Germany, € 3.90 in Austria and CHF 7.00 in Switzerland (as of September 2015). In 2017, when the 2-week cycle was changed, it was € 3.99, € 4.50 or CHF 8. In the case of special inserts, the sales price for this issue will be increased.

Volume

In the early years (from 1951) Mickey Mouse notebooks usually had 32 pages, which, according to the production technology at the time, corresponded to the optimal use of a printed sheet. In the years that followed, the number of issues was gradually increased so that the issues had 40 to 48 pages over two decades.

The magazine 17/1992 was the first issue with 72 pages. Only issue 7/1995 had this size again, with 10 pages at the end of the issue (pages 59–68) of which were allocated to the new section "SPASS TV" (see also above). This innovation was misleadingly advertised on the cover as “SPASS-TV - NEW - Now 16 pages more ...”.

Ehapa-Verlag praised issue 44/1993 on the title page with “Over 100 pages - The thickest Mickey Mouse that ever existed!”. The booklet had only 56 pages with the appropriate pagination , but an extra 48-page booklet for the film "The Jungle Book" with its own pagination was attached. However, this adding method of counting was not used in earlier or later issues that were accompanied by extra issues.

In the mid to late 1990s, the volume was usually 64 pages.

On the occasion of the “70 years Mickey Mouse” anniversary, issue 42/1998 was published as a “birthday edition” with 80 pages and was advertised as “Extra thick!” On the title page.

The magazine 1/2000 was published on December 29, 1999 with 108 pages as “The thickest mouse of all time”. A 44-page “extra comic section” with consecutive pagination was integrated in the booklet on pages 31 to 73, which, in addition to the story “Dagobert Duck - The Hunt for the Goldmill”, contained a “Galactic puzzle” divided into five chapters .

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Mickey Mouse Magazine, issues 37/2001 and 38/2001 were each published with 90 additional pages with the “best comics from 50 years”, so that these two issues had a total of 164 pages.

From 2000 onwards, the volume was almost without exception 76 pages. In 2007 the number of pages was reduced to 68. Currently (as of 04/2019 edition) the number of pages is only 52 pages.

Edition

The circulation of the first edition was 300,000 copies, of which 135,103 were sold. In 1991 the print run was over a million copies, of which around 650,000 were sold. The Mickey Mouse has lost a lot of its circulation in recent years . The number of copies sold has fallen by 89.8 percent since 1998. It is currently 67,643 copies. This corresponds to a decrease of 596,986 units. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 13.3 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

Side rows

  • Mickey Mouse special issue (1951–1955)
  • Mickeyvision (1962-1993)
  • Mickey Mouse mini comic (1988–1989)
  • Mickey Mouse presents (since 1991)
  • Micky Active (1992–1999)
  • Mickey Mouse Super * Summer * Fun (1995–2000)
  • The best comics from Mickey Mouse (1996-1998)
  • Micky MaXX - The Super • Summer • Fun / The Super • Winter • Fun (2003-2005)
  • Micky TV Extra (2003-2005)
  • Mickey Mouse Puzzle Magazine (2010)
  • Mickey Mouse Comics (since 2011)
  • Mickey Mouse SPECIAL! (2012-2017)
  • Mickey Mouse Edition (2013-2017)
  • Mickey Mouse Duck Stars (2014)
  • Mickey Mouse English Edition (2015–2016)
  • Mickey Mouse Ingenious (2015-2016)
  • Mickey Mouse paperback (since 2016)
  • MEGA Mickey Mouse (2017-2018)
  • The Greatest Stories from Mickey Mouse - special issue (October 2018), analogous to the DDSH , initially as a test edition, if popular with readers, regularly.
  • Mickey Mouse Junior Magazine (since 2019)

See also

literature

  • Boemund v. Hunoltstein: 40 years of Mickey Mouse - The balance sheet in Der Donaldist 75, 1990
  • Speech Bubble No. 181: Mickey Mouse Special Edition, 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kids Consumer Analysis 2010 ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 39 kB), accessed April 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.egmont-mediasolutions.de
  2. ↑ Comic Guide: Mickey Mouse. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 53 issues appeared in 1961, 1966, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2003, 2007 and 2010.
  4. ↑ With breaks on December 28, 2012 and December 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ Issues 16/17 and 25/26 appeared as double numbers, which is why the official count extends until 51/2014. In 2015, issues 14/15 and 52/53 were also published as double issues.
  6. ↑ Double issue 2/3, then from No. 12/13 to 48-49 every third issue and No. 51/52 each double issue. Thus, with officially 52 numbers, this year there are 40 issues.
  7. ↑ From No. 3/4 to 31/32 every third issue was a double issue. From No. 35/2017 onwards, the magazine was published every two weeks and counting with double numbers was abolished.
  8. ↑ Horst Schröder (Ed.): Walt Disney: Ich, Goofy. The stories. Edited, translated and provided with a foreword. Melzer Verlag, 1975, p. 112.
  9. ↑ List of Micky Vision booklets
  10. ↑ List of Mickey Mouse special issues
  11. ↑ List of Mickey Mouse special issues
  12. ↑ List of Mickey Mouse special issues
  13. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Duckipedia article about Micky Mouse Magazine , accessed on October 13, 2018.
  14. ↑ Eckhard Stengel: Mickey's old man's jokes . stern.de , July 24, 2008 (accessed August 31, 2008)
  15. ↑ MM 39/17, Duck Courier.
  16. ↑ MM 03/18, duck courier.
  17. ↑ Duckipedia about the Duck Stars cards , accessed on October 13, 2018.
  18. ↑ a b List of Mickey Mouse extra books
  19. ↑ according to IVW , ( details on ivw.eu )
  20. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020 ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  21. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  22. ↑ The Greatest Stories from Mickey Mouse - special issue in the Egmont Shop , accessed on October 13, 2018.
  23. ↑ Duckipedia about the MMSH
  24. ↑ DDSH 369, p. 36, readers' forum.

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