Walt Disney's Magazine Vol. 2 No. 5, August 1957, Successor to Mickey Mouse Club Magazine

Walt Disney's Magazine Volume 2 Number 5 (August 1957)

44 pages including covers, 11.5" x 8.25"

Mouseketeers Darlene Gillespie, Lonnie Burr, and Bobby Burgess are featured on the cover in a photograph by Don English for this August 1957 issue of the quarterly magazine that began publication in Winter, 1956 as Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club Magazine. It is illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white, mostly with the work of Disney artists and photographers; featured articles and stories include: Creating a True-Life Fantasy (Perri) by Winston Hibler; Johnny Appleseed, illustrated by Al Dempster; Road Engines and Rails, written and illustrated by Bill Peet; The Unique Antique automobiles of Disneyland's Main Street; Hardy Boys: The House on the Cliff; Wholly Cats by Dick Huemer; That Night on Old Flat-Top, illustrated by Herb Ryman; How Money Began, illustrated by Paul Hartley; The Pink Hat, illustrated by Paul Hartley; The Arctic Wilderness by James Algar; and more.

At this time the magazine was being distributed to newsstands yet was mainly distributed through subscriptions; the subscription form is still bound in. The back cover sports a handsome advertisement for Disney record albums.