Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #513

(December 1986)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Letters to Walt Disney's Comics & Stories / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inner front cover.

[Donald's Happy Birthday] (Table of Contents: 2)

Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Daan Jippes (credited) (story); Freddy Milton (credited) (story); Byron Erickson (credited) (US script); Nick George (writer of original cartoon); Bill Berg (writer of original cartoon)

Pencils

Freddy Milton (credited); Daan Jippes (credited)

Inks

Ben Verhagen (credited)

Colors

Ken Feduniewicz (credited)

Letters

John Clark (credited)

Job Number

H 786

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lacking proper parental guidance and leisure facilities, some of the children of Duckburg go astray out of sheer boredom...

Feature Logo

Walt Disney Donald Duck [Carl Barks Dell Comics Logo with rounded k]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; four Duckburg juvenile delinquents; two outraged snooty ladies; three Duckburg juvenile delinquents that resemble Huey, Dewey, and Louie; knife-wielding rat (cameo)

Synopsis

Donald grossly misinterprets the nephews' actions when they buy him a birthday present on the sly.

Reprints

• from Donald Duck (Oberon, 1972 series) #45/1978 (1978)
• in Disney Masters (Fantagraphics, 2018 series) #4 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test (2018)

Keywords

birthday present; cigars; escalating events; juvenile delinquency; story-adapted-from-a-cartoon; suspicion; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

Based on the 1949 Donald Duck theatrical animated short "Donald's Happy Birthday", directed by Jack Hannah.

Story is untitled in this issue; the recorded title is taken from the theatrical cartoon this story is based on.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Wuzzles / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Tom Yakutis (credited)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Mike McCormick (credited)

Letters

John Clark (credited)

Job Number

S 85340

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Where are you going?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Reprints

• from ? - originally produced for Disney Overseas Comic Book Program

The Bear Tamer (Table of Contents: 4)

Gyro Gearloose / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks (credited)

Pencils

Carl Barks (credited)

Inks

Carl Barks (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Garé Barks

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor)

Job Number

GGOS 1095

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here is what I consider my finest invention - a Gyroburger!

Feature Logo

Gyro Gearloose Dell Logo 2

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Gladstone Gander; bear; members of the Royal Order of Horeshoe Kids Club

Synopsis

Gladstone recruits Gyro to help him barehandedly tame a wild bear so that he will be crowned "King of Luck" by the Royal Order of Horeshoe Kids. Despite the fact that all he wants to do is enjoy his Gyroburger lunch, a hesitant but obliging Gyro invents a repellent that keeps the bear subdued. Complications arise with the bear, and Gyro never does get to have his long-anticipated lunch.

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1095 - Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose (April-June 1960)

Keywords

bear; cheating; contest; forest setting; good luck; insecurity; inventor

Indexer Notes

A notable peering into the soul of the obnoxiously overconfident Gladstone Gander, whose heretofore unseen inner insecurities actually drive him to get Gyro to help him cheat at winning a "contest of luck" versus a field of other presumed extraordinarily lucky contenders.

The Vanishing Railroad (Table of Contents: 5)

Mickey Mouse / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Fallberg (credited)

Pencils

Paul Murry (credited)

Inks

Paul Murry (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Paul Murry (credited)

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

After some freight cars mysteriously disappeared, Mickey and Goofy were demoted from engineer and fireman to trackwalkers by Mr. Boomer, owner of the Tankburg, Cinder City & Pacific Railroad, who thinks their carelessness was responsible.

Feature Logo

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse [Paul Murry Dell Comics logo - two tiered]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Mickey Mouse; Goofy; J. Waldo Wallow (financier); Gruggers (chauffeur); Mr. Boomer (railroad owner); The Clinker Brothers (two tired has-been outlaws); constable; deputies

Synopsis

Thanks to Goofy's unorthodox stakeout of the railroad yard, the mystery of the vanishing railroad is solved.

Reprints

• from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #v16#7 (187) (April 1956)

Keywords

locomotive; outlaws; railroading; stakeout; train

Indexer Notes

Part 3 of 3.

[Bum Steer] (Table of Contents: 6)

Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Carl Barks (credited)

Pencils

Carl Barks (credited)

Inks

Carl Barks (credited)

Colors

Mike McCormick (credited)

Letters

?

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor)

Job Number

US 4

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Uncle Scrooge

Reprints

• from Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #4 (December 1953-February 1954)

Indexer Notes

Gag page is untitled in this issue; provenance of the recorded title is unknown.