German freak comic book question

Klaus Harms harms313 at web.de
Wed Apr 18 20:13:46 CEST 2001


Few days ago, I obtained a German comic book that looks very odd to me.
It is called "Micky Maus" on the cover, but the style of title 
lettering and design is totally different from the well-known German
weekly "Micky Maus". A scan of the cover can be seen here:
  http://geocities.com/derfuehrerspage/stuff/oddcomic.jpg (158 kb)
It bears a "Nr. 25" line on the cover, and the price is given in DM
(1,50); it has 36 pages (including covers) plus cardboard extra pages
(including an "Entenhausen Bastelspass" in the style of MM 2-13/1976 and
a "Schnipp" mark that did not appear before MM 2/1976) in the middle.
Though the comic book's contents are totally different from Micky Maus
25/1975, the interior pages (pp. 3-34) are virtually identical (color,
translation, typesetting) to the issue of MICKYVISION (!) 11/1975
(including the indicia), but without cardboard pages - and the only real
difference is that the pages of the odd comic book are NOT numbered (in
the Mickyvision issue the pages are numbered).
Does anyone on the list know the origin of this comic book? When was it
published, or has it been published at all? Is it a one-of-a-kind or an
April Fool's gag? I have asked a few donaldist experts but no-one has
ever seen such a thing.

Klaus



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