(February 1987)
Gladstone,
1986 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1986-10-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
- Brand
-
Gladstone G
- Editing
- Byron Erickson (editor-in-chief); John Clark (associate editor); Geoffrey Blum (associate editor); Michael McCormick (art director)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #103.
[The Sawed-Over Duckling(s)]
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Synopsis
- Donald uses his nephews' triplication to benefit his magic act.
- Keywords
- magic act
A Clean Case of Competence
Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Daan Jippes (story); Freddy Milton (story); Geoffrey Blum (script)
- Pencils
- Freddy Milton; Daan Jippes
- Inks
- Freddy Milton; Daan Jippes
- Colors
- Kurt Mausert
- Letters
- John Clark
- Job Number
- H 771
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In these days of smog and grime, big cities need expert cleaners... Duckburg relies on Donald Duck, M.D. (Master of De-soiling). The boy is good!
- 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; Philo T. Ellic (rich stamp collector); railroad switchman; bus driver; bus passengers; factory foreman; mayor of Duckburg; various panicked citizens of Duckburg
- Synopsis
- Donald is the best cleaner-of-grimy-objects Duckburg has ever seen... until he takes on the job of cleaning Big Beth, a venerable, four-faced tower clock upon which all of Duckburg relies for the most accurate time. Does Donald de-grime Big Beth, or will Big Beth clean Donald's clock and throw all of Duckburg into its latest round of utter chaos? Hint: Bet on Big Beth.
- Reprints
-
from Donald Duck (Oberon, 1972 series) #19/1977 -
in Walt Disney's Comics Penny Pincher (Gladstone, 1997 series) #4 (August 1997) [first page only] - in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #306 (January 1998)
- in Disney Masters (Fantagraphics, 2018 series) #4 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test (2018)
-
- Keywords
- Brittle Mastery story; busses; cleaning; fame-is-fleeting; feathers; know-it-all; overconfidence; tar; tower clock; trains; unintended slapstick consequences; wreaking havoc
Indexer Notes
One of the stories referred to collectively as "The Brittle Mastery of Donald Duck", a series of stories by Carl Barks (or his successors) where Donald is the-best-there-is at something... until he's not, usually involving some disaster.
Philo T. Ellic, the rich stamp collector, originally appeared in "Donald Duck and the Gilden Man", written and drawn by Carl Barks, from Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #422 (1952). https://www.comics.org/issue/9608/
Donald Duck is not exactly unfamiliar with cleaning clocks, having co-starred (with Mickey Mouse and Goofy) in the 1937 Walt Disney theatrical animated short "Clock Cleaners".
The Piggy Patch-Up
The Three Little Pigs / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Reprints
- from Walt Disney's Chip 'n' Dale (Dell, 1955 series) #9 (March-May 1957)
-
Mighty but Miserable
Gyro Gearloose / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Vic Lockman
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Garé Barks (uncredited)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Beagle Boys; Daisy; Donald Duck; Horace Horsecollar; Uncle Scrooge
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1184 - Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose (May-July [June] 1961)
-
Indexer Notes
Story is attributed in this issue to Carl Barks; the Barks story attribution appears to have been incorrect.
The Phantom Fires
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Reprints
- from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #v17#9 (201) (June 1957)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 2 of 3.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[The Sawed-Over Duckling(s)]
Donald Duck -
1.
A Clean Case of Competence
Donald Duck -
2.
The Piggy Patch-Up
The Three Little Pigs -
3.
Mighty but Miserable
Gyro Gearloose -
4.
The Phantom Fires
Mickey Mouse
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