The magazine also featured reprints of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip continuities in full colour on the back cover.
The early covers were drawn by Wilfred Haughton — a full-colour comic panel with many characters, with each one saying a joke or a pun.
[5] As the American Mickey Mouse Magazine inspired Mickey Mouse Weekly, the new publication inspired a number of European spinoffs, including Switzerland's Micky Maus Zeitung (1936–37) and Sweden's Musse Pigg Tidningen (1937–38), which used Haughton's covers and other British material.
There were 15 weekly parts of this first serial featuring Donald and his girlfriend Donna, an early version of Daisy Duck.
[9] Reynolds left Mickey Mouse Weekly in 1940 for military service in World War II.
The cards featured full-colour images of the Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphony and Snow White cast.