As previously noted I was never much of a funny animal guy growing up, but I’ve read my share of Disney Comics and let me tell you, the competition for the title of “Worst Disney Comic of All-Time” is pretty fierce. Me, I’d happily nominate most Mickey Mouse comics of the 1950s, ostensibly adventure stories that could have been marketed as sleep aids and appear to have been drawn in a moving vehicle.

But that’s just my opinion, underscoring the fact that opinion is always subjective. It didn’t take me long to discover that one of my all time favorite Mickey Mouse comics is considered by some on-line to be one of the very worst. I mean of course Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent. It appeared in Walt Disney Mickey Mouse, #107-109 in 1966 during the height of the secret agent boom and had Mickey and Goofy, drawn by Paul Murray, inserted into a world otherwise entirely occupied by humans drawn by the great Dan Spiegel. It is, in my opinion, a great idea and I only wish Marvel/Disney would do an updated version, Mickey Mouse Agent of Shield.

As I said, some consider this one of the worst comics ever; if you follow the following link you’ll get that point of view:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/worstcomixever/doubleomickey.html

However, if you just want to actually read one of the stories and judge for yourself, you can follow this link.

http://magiccarpetburn.blogspot.com/2008/12/mickey-mouse-super-secret-agent-part.html

I haven’t posted any of the Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent stories because they are (a) book length and (b) readily available elsewhere on the Internet. But here’s a page from the first one to give you a taste.

These comics were reprinted in India, and while the interiors are the same as they are in the American version for some reason the editors decided to get “creative” and produce these spectacularly off model original covers which…you know how every once in awhile someone posts Polish movie posters of famous American movies? They kind of look like that.

And, as a bonus, here’s a couple of theoretically educational black and white one pages drawn by the great Dan Spiegel.