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.

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

A Few Beard & Harper Stories at Gold Key

Husband-and-wife team Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper were the writers on the Fox and Crow and related strips like The Hounds and the Hare, Flippity and Flop, and Tito and His Burrito at DC. The Fox and Crow strip lasted into 1968.

Editor Murray Boltinoff had Cecil Beard give a quick bio in F&C 97, in which he identified Alpine Harper as his collaborator and noted that, having been writing comics for 20 years in '66, "by now, I think we've written for almost every comic character in the business."

I found a few of their later scripts at Gold Key by their distinctive "Ooo-hoo-hoo." From one story in it I could work out that they did the entire single issue of the time-travel sitcom tie-in It's About Time; I believe they did more stories of Scooby Doo than I've listed here, but it will take more study to be sure of the ones without "Ooo-hoo-hoo." The tiers are from the untitled first story in Fox and the Crow 90 (Feb-March/65); "A Better Mousetrap"; and "That's Snow Ghost."

Cecil Beard & Alpine Harper Scripts on
It's About Time

Jan/67	1	The Day of the Widget
		A Lesson in Courtship
		A Better Mousetrap

on Scooby Doo

Dec/70	4	The Ghostly Sea Diver
Mar/71	5	That's Snow Ghost
Aug/73	20	The Fiery Hoo-Doo