| Issue | #261 |
| Published | January 1950 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director) |
| Notes | Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MICKEY MOUSE and the MISSING KEY, No. 261." Code number is M.M.O.S. #261-501. Copyright 1949 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Page count increases from 36 to 52. Apparently Mickey Mouse #11. |
| Characters | Mickey Mouse |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Paul Murry |
| Inks | Paul Murry |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Characters | Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie |
| Synopsis | Morty and Ferdie drop hints about what they want for Christmas. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Jack Bradbury |
| Inks | Jack Bradbury |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. |
| Characters | Mickey Mouse; Goofy |
| Synopsis | Two clowns deliver a steel trunk to Goofy, an inheritance from his Uncle Clown Goof. However they didn't leave a key to the trunk, so Mickey and Goofy travel to Clownland to retrieve the key. When they arrive in Clownland they find that Clown Goof's stepson, Clown Blackbeard, the world's most vicious clown, has the key on a string around his neck. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Jim Pabian |
| Inks | Jim Pabian |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Characters | Mickey Mouse; Chief O'Hara; Casey; Dinny the Dandy |
| Synopsis | Chief O'Hara comes to Mickey's house late at night to request his help. A string of burglaries has been committed. Each house has been protected by an electric beam which is supposed to detect any intruder. Mickey goes undercover to find the criminal and teams up with a suspect named Dinny the Dandy. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Script | Bill Wright |
| Pencils | Bill Wright |
| Inks | Bill Wright |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Bill Wright |
| Notes | Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| Reprinted | in Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald (Gladstone, 1988 series) #15 (November 1989) |
| Characters | Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie |
| Synopsis | Morty and Ferdie are depressed because there is no place for them to go ice-skating. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Jack Bradbury |
| Inks | Jack Bradbury |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black, red, and white. |
| Characters | Mickey Mouse; Morty; Ferdie |
| Synopsis | Morty and Ferdie get a jigsaw (power saw) for Christmas. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Jack Bradbury |
| Inks | Jack Bradbury |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Notes | Back cover. |