(December 1986)

Gladstone, 1986 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.25 USD; 1.65 CAD
Pages
100
Indicia Frequency
eight times a year
On-sale Date
1986-09-09
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
Brand
Gladstone G
Editing
Leonard Clark [John Clark]

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[Truant Officer] (Table of Contents)

Donald Duck / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Carl Barks
Pencils
Carl Barks
Inks
Carl Barks
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
State Line
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Walt Disney's Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #1 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Walt Disney's Comics Digest (1986 series) #1 [Newsstand]
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Cover gallery

[Blank Pages] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Characters
Donald Duck (cameo); Jose Carioca (cameo); Panchito (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Table of contents with spot illustration.

Staff (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Listing of staff and indicia.

The Truant Nephews (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script
Carl Barks
Pencils
Carl Barks
Inks
Carl Barks
Colors
?
Letters
Carl Barks
First Line of Dialogue or Text
You kids go down to the schoolhouse and sign up for your classes! Tomorrow you start back to school!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis
The nephews play hooky on the first day of school, but run into schools and truant officers everywhere they go.
Reprints

The Seven-Colored Terror (Table of Contents: 5)

Mickey Mouse / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script
Ken Hultgren
Pencils
Ken Hultgren
Inks
Ken Hultgren
Colors
?
Letters
Ken Hultgren
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery; humor
Characters
Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Pluto; Mr. Squiggles
Synopsis
Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto go to Lake Tranquil to take summer jobs, only to find that the tourist trade is being scared off by a ferocious seven-colored mountain lion.
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Choretime (Table of Contents: 6)

Huey, Dewey and Louie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tony Strobl
Inks
Tony Strobl
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Reprints

Practical Pig (Table of Contents: 7)

Li'l Bad Wolf / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Buettner
Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints

[Water Hazard] (Table of Contents: 8)

Grandma Duck / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paul Murry
Inks
Paul Murry
Colors
?
Letters
Paul Murry
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Grandma Duck; Gus Goose; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Reprints

The Three Caballeros (Table of Contents: 9)

The Three Caballeros / comic story / 48 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Donald Duck; José Carioca; Panchito; Pablo Penguin
Synopsis
José Carioca and Panchito take Donald on a magic flying serape tour of Latin America. Along the way they hear the stories of Pablo the Penguin, the gauchito and the flying burro, and "Las Posadas" and the pinata.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Mickey Mouse doll is depicted on page 45 of the story.
A not very faithful adaptation of the 1944 Walt Disney animated movie "The Three Caballeros." Framing sequence is different.

[Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and other Disney favorites...] (Table of Contents: 10)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
G 110

Indexer Notes

Promo for Gladstone's regular-size Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. Cover to #510 is depicted.

Subscribe to the Walt Disney Comics Digest Series (Table of Contents: 11)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Characters
Mickey Mouse

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Promo for subscriptions to the four Gladstone Disney digests.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Truant Officer]
    Donald Duck
  2. 1. [Blank Pages]
  3. 2. Table of Contents
  4. 3. Staff
  5. 4. The Truant Nephews
    Donald Duck
  6. 5. The Seven-Colored Terror
    Mickey Mouse
  7. 6. Choretime
    Huey, Dewey and Louie
  8. 7. Practical Pig
    Li'l Bad Wolf
  9. 8. [Water Hazard]
    Grandma Duck
  10. 9. The Three Caballeros
    The Three Caballeros
  11. 10. [Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and other Disney favorites...]
  12. 11. Subscribe to the Walt Disney Comics Digest Series
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