Doug's Disneyland Collection
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Also somewhat ominous is “Mickey Mouse and the Missing Mouseketeers�? (D57, 1956, third printing 1978).

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This title was also published for many years, extending well beyond the run of the TV series. My collection even includes a Spanish language edition (1974).

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Mickey is again a harried producer of a live TV program. Frankly, he looks as if he hasn’t slept in days.

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Despite the ability to talk on three phones at once, Mickey still must examine all of Disneyland to ensure that everything is ready. After checking out Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland, Mickey is shocked to find that everyone in Fantasyland seems to be dead. Or enchanted.

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Since Minnie and the Mouseketeers were last seen in Fantasyland, Mickey sets the show in motion, and begins searching through the attractions. Inside the Dwarf’s Mine he confronts Captain Hook, and, based on the illustration, stabs him in the heart. According to the text, however, he merely tickles the “bad man’s�? chest.

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Hook reveals that Minnie and the gang have been put into an enchanted sleep at the bottom of the mine. Mickey borrows a train of mine cars and sets of to the rescue. But there is a strange looking woman standing guard.

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Identified in the text as “Maleficent, the bad fairy,�? the figure may have been rather alarming to children in 1956, since “Sleeping Beauty�? wasn’t released until 1959.

Mickey tricks Maleficent into eating Snow White’s apple, and then tries to figure out how to revive Minnie and all who are enchanted.

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Despite the fact that Mickey looks as though he is in mourning, he does figure out that The Kiss of True Love will revive her. Sure enough, Minnie and the Mouseketeers wake up, and give their best show ever.