(May 1990)
Gladstone,
1987 Series
- Price
- 1.95 USD; 2.50 CAD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except February, March, May, and July
- On-sale Date
- 1990-02-27
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
- Brand
-
Gladstone Giant
- Editing
- Byron Erickson
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Cross Talk column in this issue. Issue is dated May, even though indicia frequency says it isn't published in May.
[Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad]
Uncle Scrooge / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Reprints
-
from Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #56 (March 1965) [on cover] -
in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #39 (2008)
-
Gladstone: Four Years Later
text article / 0.833 page
- Synopsis
- Bruce Hamilton reminisces on the first four years of Gladstone comics.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Statement of Ownership
statement of ownership / 0.167 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Statement of Ownership for October 3, 1989. Average paid circulation last 12 months was 67,321.
Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 24 pages
- Job Number
- US 56
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Katie Mallard; Cyanide Charlie; Hardrock Joe; Ducky Bird; Copperhead McViper
- Reprints
- from Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #56 (March 1965)
-
The Pied Piper of Duckburg
Gyro Gearloose / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks (pp 1-3); Don Rosa (pp 4-8)
- Pencils
- Carl Barks (pp 1-3); Don Rosa (pp 4-8)
- Inks
- Don Rosa
- Colors
- Sue Daigle
- Letters
- John Clark
- Job Number
- H 89174
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge; Gyro Gearloose; Miss Quackfaster
- Synopsis
- Scrooge hires Gyro to rid Duckburg of rats.
- Reprints
- in The Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color (Gladstone, 1993 series) #2 (March 1993) which is reprinted
- in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #621 (February 1998)
- in Mestres Disney (Editora Abril, 2005 series) #4 (Agosto 2005)
- in Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose - Free Comic Book Day (Gemstone, 2008 series) (May 2008)
- in The Don Rosa Library (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #2 - Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck "Return to Plain Awful" (November 2014)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #24 - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Island in the Sky (June 2021)
- from Oberon
-
- Keywords
- bridge; cheese; Money Bin; rats
in Indexer Notes
Barks started the story in 1959 for a Gyro Gearloose Four Color, but abandoned it when it became obvious that the amount of drawing wouldn't be worth the page rate.
In the Talons of Wan Fu
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Geoffrey Blum (script)
- Pencils
- Santiago Scalabroni Ceballos
- Inks
- Santiago Scalabroni Ceballos
- Colors
- Summer Hamilton
- Letters
- Bill Spicer
- Job Number
- D 9278
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Magica De Spell; Wan Fu
- Synopsis
- Magica hires magician Wan Fu to steal Scrooge's Old Number One Dime, but Wan Fu decides he wants it for himself.
- Reprints
- from Gutenberghus (DK)
- Keywords
- 747 airplane; bear; disguise; dragon; illusions; London; magician; Money Bin; Old Number One Dime; pterodactyl; tiger
[Blanket Investment]
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- US 8
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Reprints
- from Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #8 (December 1954-February 1955)
-
Return to Pizen Bluff
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- US 26
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Reprints
- from Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #26 (June-August 1959)
-
[no title indexed]
Cross Talk / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Previews for Gladstone Comics for February: Mickey and Donald #18; DuckTales #13; Pinocchio Special #1; Uncle Scrooge Adventures #21. Also includes the news that the Walt Disney Company will publish its own comics.
[Domino Bookcases]
Donald Duck / comic story / 0.125 page
- Job Number
- KFS 9/16/86
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Donald Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald knocks over a row of bookcases while looking for a book on dominoes.
- Reprints
- from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1986.09.16
- Keywords
- bookcases; dominoes; library
Indexer Notes
Bottom of back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad]
Uncle Scrooge -
1.
Gladstone: Four Years Later
-
2.
Statement of Ownership
-
3.
Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad
Uncle Scrooge -
4.
The Pied Piper of Duckburg
Gyro Gearloose -
5.
In the Talons of Wan Fu
Uncle Scrooge -
6.
[Blanket Investment]
Uncle Scrooge -
7.
Return to Pizen Bluff
Uncle Scrooge -
8.
[no title indexed]
Cross Talk -
9.
[Domino Bookcases]
Donald Duck
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