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I looked in COA under Floyd Gottfredson from 1944-1948, and didn't find any listing for "Mickey's Soda Atom". I DO remember that story. And, it seems (in my memory) to have been Floyd Gottfredson's work. But, I can't remembegr when it was (other than the art being reminiscent of the period 1944-1949 (with Bill Wright's inking). I think I first read it in a late 1940s Walt Disney's Comics and Stories issue. But, I 'm not with my USA comics now, to look for it. I won't be able to do that for some time. But, I am curious to know when that story was published, -so I can read it again. It doesn't ring a bell as having been in an Eega Beeva story. So, I suspect it was before mid-late 1947.

Are we sure it was Gottfredson? Could it have been one of the serials or stories by Dick Moores or maybe even Bill Wright? Because that sounds REALLY familiar.
Grasping at straws here, but could it have been "Mickey Mouse and the Professor's Experiment"?
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=ZM+023
It was printed in WDCS during that time period...

What issue was that story in? Was it in any of the issues by Gladstone, Disney or Gemstone?

Nope. Neither Gladstone, Disney, nor Gemstone ever reprinted it sadly. Which is strange because it's one of the few Non-Gottfredson serialized stories that exist so you'd think Gladstone or Gemstone would have been all over for curiosities sake alone - ESPECIALLY given the fact that Bill Wright's stuff is not nearly as numerous as Gottfredson's, but in quite a few cases was just as good, more accessible without the hassles of reformatting, and didn't have the taint of being associated with "Later-era Paul Murry artwork".
It probably boiled down to A) they may not have had the stats to it (remember that Gemstone only seemed to resort to using reformatted WDC&S Dell stats unless they absolutely had nothing else to use. They were pretty big on the proper restoration of classic-era material) B) seeing as how it was a Sunday-based storyline and those were almost always more gag based around that era, it probably wasn't a priority in terms of printing and C) they probably had too many other projects that were of more importance or backlog from the start of their era that they needed to get rid of/sift through.
Still though it's such a shame to have missed out on for nothing else but curiosities sake. It would have been nice to see more Wright some time down the line considering we did get "World Beneath the Sea" and "Spooks' Island" reprinted proper.
But what I **really** wish was that Gemstone had printed Wright's "Ghost of Maneater Mountain" serial (which is just a phenominally well crafted Mickey serial along the lines of Gottfredson type stuff) and "Valley of the Kachinas" (which was not only his return to pencilling/writing Mickey Mouse in the Gold Key era, but tied into Gottfredson lore via the use of his grandfather, Abermarle Mouse - an extreme rarity for the Mickey comics of that time) for WDC&S. I remember practically begging David to print that on down the line, but alas.
Maybe someone can eventually pester Boom to print them should they get around to printing the older stuff in some way, some time in the future.

Dear Everyone,
Thanks for your help. Yes, it was the Professor's Experiment. I have long since sold my fairly complete DD/MM/WD's C & S (from late '30s to mid '60s), but I wax nostalgic every one in a while, and I always enjoyed that odd little gem.
Is there a reprint anywhere?
Guy

Thanks for the info Robb.

Quote from user: WBBut what I **really** wish was that Gemstone had printed Wright's "Ghost of Maneater Mountain" serial (which is just a phenominally well crafted Mickey serial along the lines of Gottfredson type stuff) and "Valley of the Kachinas" (which was not only his return to pencilling/writing Mickey Mouse in the Gold Key era, but tied into Gottfredson lore via the use of his grandfather, Abermarle Mouse - an extreme rarity for the Mickey comics of that time) for WDC&S. I remember practically begging David to print that on down the line, but alas.

Maybe someone can eventually pester Boom to print them should they get around to printing the older stuff in some way, some time in the future.
I would love to see both of those stories reprinted by IDW along with the rest of Bill Wright's comic book work when IDW gets the chance.