Three Mouseketeers #5

Three Mouseketeers #5 (On Sale: November 17, 1970), has another great cover by Phil Mendez.

We begin the reprint-fest with The Three Mousketeers in "The Mole, the Merrier!" by Sy Reit and Rube Grossman. Minus gets lost in Marmaduke's mole tunnels. Reprinted from The Three Mouseketeers #9 (July 1957).

Next is The Dodo and the Frog in "Choo Choo Chums!" drawn by Otto Feuer. Fenimore tries to buy Dunbar's house so he can sell it to the railroad. Reprinted from Funny Stuff #77 (March-April 1954).

We next have The Three Mouseketeers in "Time Out for Minus!" by Sy Reit and Rube Grossman. Minus decides he needs a vacation and doesn't want to be in the story. Reprinted from The Three Mouseketeers #12 (November 1957).

That is followed by an untitled Bo Bunny story by Sheldon Mayer. Friendship is a wonderful thing. Reprinted from The Raccoon Kids #56 (May-June 1955).

We have another untitled story, this one fetureing Doodles Duck by Sheldon Mayer and reprinted from Comic Cavalcade #63 (June-July 1954).

Next, we have a section of games, b beginning with "Hey Kids... It's Gametime!" by Phil Mendez which explains how to remove the It's Gametime insert from the rest of the magazine.

The one-page games are all created and illustrated by Martin Naydel and are all reprinted from It's Gametime #3 (January-February 1956). The games are: "Find the Twins," "Play Boxes," "Word Ladder," "Number Words Quiz, " "True or False Kwiz,"  "Krazy Crosswords," "Trixy the Puzzle Monkey,"  "Word Cage!," "Let's Go Hunting," "Space Sticklers," and "Elephant Hunt." The final page is the "Answer Page" which provides the answers for the previous puzzles.

Next is The Three Mouseketeers in "The Black Ball Bounces Back!" by Sheldon Mayer. Fatsy has to do a brave deed after being blackballed by the Mouseketeers. Reprinted from The Three Mouseketeers #7 (March-April 1957).

That is followed by The Dodo and the Frog in "Bewitching Pitching!" drawn by Otto Feuer and reprinted from The Dodo and the Frog #82 (January-February 1955).

Next is Elmo the Mouse in the text-story "What I Did On My Summer Vacation."  

Next is The Three Mouseketeers in "Patsy Comes Through" by Sy Reit and Rube Grossman. Patsy tries to figure out how to ski on a banana. Reprinted from The Three Mouseketeers #7 (March-April 1957).

We end with The Three Mouseketeers in "Big-Feets Holiday" by Sy Reit and Rube Grossman. The mice try to understand Christmas. And figure out why the Big Feets have a tree inside their house, and what those striped canes are for. Reprinted from The Three Mouseketeers #6 (January-February 1957).

Edited by Dick Giordano.