"The Return of the Disney Comic" in Disney Magazine

[Arthur de Wolf]

Hi,

The Summer 2003 issue of Disney Magazine from the USA features a 6-page
article on Disney comics. This is quite unusual as the magazine is usually
about everything Disney, except the comics.

The cover reads "The Return of the Disney Comic". The article is titled
"Comic Relief - The evolution of Disney comic books". The article contains
pictures of some of the first Disney comics, for instance Hoffman's Mickey
Mouse Magazine (US) of 1933, Mickey Mouse Weekly (UK) of 1936 with a cover
by Wilfred Haughton, a Musse Pigg Tidningen (Sweden) of 1938 and others. It
is mostly about the start of Disney comics around the world in the early
years. Unfortunately it doesn't say anything about the current popularity in
Europe.

About Sweden it says: "Musse Pigg Tidningen (Lively Mouse Magazine) began in
Sweden in 1932. It lasted only into the next year, with a total of 23
issues.". That may be true but if you don't know anything about it, it may
look like they haven't had any Disney comics in Sweden at all since 1933.

It is nice anyway that Disney advertises the new Gemstone comics in their
magazine. There is a half page announcing the new titles with images of the
covers of WDC and US.

Coincidentally there is also a question from someone in the "Ask Dave"
section ("Disney's archives director answers all your questions") of someone
asking for information about their wife's uncle, Tony Strobl. There is a
page shown of a Bucky Bug story from WDC #100.

Kind regards,

Arthur de Wolf
http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw