Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Beard and Harper Mickey Mouse Serials

I.N.D.U.C.K.S. credits "The Red Wasp Mystery" to Cecil Beard, which gave a starting point. As mentioned in the comments to my previous post on them, I think it's easier to assume Beard and wife Alpine Harper, per his text page for Murray Boltinoff, collaborated at this point to a greater or lesser degree on everything rather than to assign stories solely to one or the other.

'Bourf! Bourf!


Pluto's "Bourf! Bourf!" in WDC&S 330 echoes the Hounds in their untiled Hounds and the Hare story in The Fox and the Crow 83 (Dec-Jan/64). Goofy echoes so many Fox and Crow (as well as Hound and Hare etc.) stories' "Ooo-hoo-hoo" in #358. (The Crow says it on the first page of F&C 83.) Note the nonstandard hyphenization of "Hoo-Doo" both here and in the Scooby Doo story "The Fiery Hoo-Doo."

There are a number of serials later in this run, setting aside these and Carl Fallberg's, that I can assign to one writing style, but can't be sure enough to say it's that of Beard & Harper. Maybe more on their style from other features will merge my two lists of writers' data and I can credit those stories to them in the future.

Beard & Harper Mickey Mouse serial scripts
in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories

Oct/66 to Jan/67 #313-316  The Treasure of Oomba Loomba
Feb/ to Apr/67 #317-319  The Red Wasp Mystery
May/ to Jul/67 #320-322  Lair of the Zoomby
Aug/ to Nov/67 #323-326  Trapped in Time
Dec/67 to Feb/68 #327-329  The Mystery of the Wiki-Waki Wot-Not
Mar/ to May/68 #330-332  The Mystery of the Dazzling Hoo-Doo
Dec/68 to Feb/69 #339-341  The Strange Case of Professor Zero
Dec/69 to Feb/70 #351-353  The Sorcerer of Donnybrook Castle
Mar/ to May/70 #354-356  Chief Bigfoot and the Ghost Warriors
Jun/ to Aug/70 #357-359  Journey to No-No Land
Sep/ to Nov/70 #360-362  The Sign of the Scorpion
May/ to Jul/73 #392-394  Flight of the Dragon

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