Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #29 - Minnie in Hollywood!

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories started out as a magazine that reprinted newspaper strips of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other characters from the Disney studios.  It began publication in 1940, and it is still being published today.  There were a few short breaks in that period...but that is an impressive run none-the-less.  Issue #24 saw the first original story done for the magazine, and issue #31 the first work by the great Carl Barks.  In between these two important issues, the magazine featured a few longer stories, more reprints, and some non-comic text articles that are pretty interesting.

Issue #29 is from February 1943 and contains all of the elements mentioned above.  Donald and the nephews are on this Walt Kelly cover and the feature length comics in the magazine have Mickey Mouse and Thumper (the rabbit from Bambi) as the main characters.

But, this particular issue also has an article "by" Minnie Mouse, called Hollywood Chatter.  In it, the stories of some of the more famous child actors of the day are recounted.  Roddy McDowall is featured here, while Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Jackie Cooper are also all mentioned.

The cool part about these magazines is that they go back to a time when comics really did entertain a kid for a long time.  With the multiple text stories like this one, it takes the better part of an hour to read one of these books (compared to 10-15 minutes for most modern comics).  And the content is still entertaining today!

Until next time...