Walt Disney Super Goof #37 [Whitman]

(March 1976)

Paul Revere's Run! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Hostess; Twinkies; Beep Beep the Road Runner / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

The Twister Resisters (Table of Contents: 2)

Super Goof / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Paul Murry

Inks

Paul Murry

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Super Goof has done a superb job of stamping out crime...

Feature Logo

Super Goof [Western Logo 1 Single Line of Letters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters

Super Goof [Goofy]; Super Gilbert [Gilbert] (first appearance); The Beagle Boys (splash-page cameo only); police desk sergeant; construction workers; angry man in window; newsboy; paper-purchasing pedestrian; first farmer; first farmer's wife; wind-imperiled chickens; second farmer; Dr. Ruah (mad scientist and unscrupulous land-grabber)

Synopsis

After a few super-power related mishaps, Super Goof accidently reveals his secret identity as Goofy to genius nephew Gilbert. The pair conclude Super Goof needs to augment his brawn with brain so Goofy invites his brainy nephew to swallow a Super Goober and become “Super Gilbert”. The “Super-Twosome” plan works well and, after defeating a mad scientist who creates man-made twisters to level and devalue the surrounding countryside into “cheap land acquisitions”, Super Goof and Super Gilbert (later called “Super Gilly”) become a regular recurring team for the rest of the Western Publishing run.

Reprints

• from Walt Disney Super Goof (Western, 1965 series) #5 (December 1966)

Keywords

first appearance of recurring character(s); heroics; kid-sidekick; tornadoes

Indexer Notes

In Super Goof terms, this is a landmark issue akin to Robin or Kid Flash becoming kid-sidekicks to their respective adult mentors.

Page 3, panel 2 reference to 1969 in the original changed to 1978 for this reprint.

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The Best of Walt Disney Comics (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

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