Panini Mickey Story (1978) 215 Unused Disney Stickers – Vintage Lot - 215 Card - Near Mint (NM)

Large vintage collector’s lot comprising 215 original Panini stickers from the classic Disney Mickey Story collection, issued in 1978 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mickey Mouse.

Mickey Story was conceived as a colourful retrospective of Mickey’s first five decades, tracing the development of the character from his earliest black-and-white appearances and newspaper comic strips through his later animated and comic-book adventures.

The original complete collection consisted of 360 numbered stickers. This auction contains 215 individual stickers in total. It is a substantial mixed lot, but it is not a complete set and duplicate numbers are present.

LOT DETAILS:

– Collection: Mickey Story
– Manufacturer: Panini
– Copyright: 1978 Walt Disney Productions
– Year: 1978
– Total quantity included: 215 stickers
– Printed in Italy by Edizioni Panini S.p.A., Modena
– Original adhesive backing papers intact
– Stickers have never been attached to an album
– Duplicates are included

The lot offers a broad selection of images featuring Mickey Mouse and many other classic Disney characters, including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, Pete and other personalities and villains from Mickey’s animated and comic-strip history.

The images cover a wide variety of subjects and periods, including:

– Early Mickey Mouse cartoons and black-and-white artwork
– Classic newspaper comic-strip scenes
– Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto adventures
– Historical character designs
– Fantasy, western, maritime and science-fiction sequences
– Space travel, robots and adventure stories
– Villains and supporting characters
– Everyday humorous scenes
– Multi-sticker compositions and panoramic sequences

Several different sticker formats are represented, including square, vertical and horizontal images. Some stickers were designed to be combined with adjoining numbers to form larger scenes inside the original album.

The reverse of each sticker carries the Mickey Story logo, its individual collection number and multilingual album information in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish. The backs also display the Panini branding, the 1978 Walt Disney Productions copyright and the statement that the stickers were printed in Italy by Edizioni Panini S.p.A. of Modena.

CONDITION:

The stickers are in very good unused vintage condition overall. They retain attractive original colours, clean illustrated surfaces and their complete adhesive backing papers.

Due to their age, individual examples may display light natural paper toning, slight corner or edge wear, minor curling, small storage marks or normal cutting and centring variations.

All 215 stickers included in the auction are shown across the supplied photographs. Duplicate images and numbers are present. Buyers should not assume that any particular number is included unless it can be identified in the photographs.

The photographs form an essential part of the description and show the exact lot offered for sale.

The complete collection will be carefully stacked, protected between rigid boards and securely packed for shipment.