Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #541

(August 1989)

Comics Comments (Table of Contents: 1)

Comics Comments / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Carl Barks (figure of Donald Duck in logo banner); Paul Murry (figure of Mickey Mouse in logo banner)

Inks

Carl Barks (figure of Donald Duck in logo banner); Paul Murry (figure of Mickey Mouse in logo banner)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Donald Duck; Mickey Mouse

Keywords

letters of comment

Raising Cains (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Carl Barks (credited)

Pencils

Carl Barks (credited)

Inks

Carl Barks (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Carl Barks (credited)

Editing

Alice Nielsen Cobb (original editor); Carl Buettner (editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Git along, Old Paint!

Feature Logo

Walt Disney Presents Donald Duck [Carl Barks Dell Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Professor Pulpheart Clabberhead

Synopsis

Overbearing Professor Pulpheart Clabberhead dragoons Donald into permissive child-rearing.

Reprints

• from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #v8#8 (92) (May 1948)

Keywords

parenting; permissiveness

Indexer Notes

Originally untitled. Title becomes official with this reprint.

Goofy Meets the Reluctant Dragon (Table of Contents: 3)

Goofy / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Jack Bradbury (credited)

Inks

Jack Bradbury (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Rome Siemon

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Really, Uncle Goofy... must you persist in reading bedtime fairy tales to a personage of my intellectual stature?!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Goofy; Gilbert; medieval villagers; Goofy's steed; The Reluctant Dragon; blacksmith

Synopsis

Genius Gilbert doesn't believe in his Uncle Goofy's bedtime story about a reluctant dragon and takes Goofy to medieval days of yore to prove that dragons don't exist.

Reprints

• from Walt Disney's Summer Fun (Dell, 1959 series) #2 ([August] 1959)

Keywords

dragon; medieval setting; skepticism; time travel

Indexer Notes

Writer Lockman adds an interesting twist at story's end, allowing both Goofy (who believes in dragons) and Gilbert (who does not) to be correct.

Little Sir Show-Off (Table of Contents: 4)

Scamp / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Al Hubbard (credited)

Inks

Al Hubbard (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey, fellas! Look at me! I can jump through this fork in the tree!

Feature Logo

Walt Disney's Scamp [sans-serifs]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Scamp; other dogs; Dr. Barks; Trixie (acrobatic dog); theatre manager; orchestra members; stagehand; fire fighters; newspaper photographer

Synopsis

Scamp is a whiz at doing tricks in the backyard but, when a trained acrobatic dog needs a break and gets a bragging Scamp to substitute for him, the pup finds it's not so easy to wow 'em under the bright lights.

Reprints

• from Walt Disney's Scamp (Dell, 1958 series) #6 (June-August 1958)

Keywords

bragging; creator reference; dogs; exaggerating one’s importance; substitute; trained dog act; tricks; unlikely hero

Indexer Notes

In what may be a double-joke, the dog act trainer is named "Dr. Barks" - covering the sound a dog makes and a fellow Disney comics creator.

Remade as "Backstage Hero" in Scamp (Western, 1967 Series) #31 (September, 1976).

[Dissonant Distancing] (Table of Contents: 5)

Winnie-the-Pooh / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Don Ferguson (credited)

Pencils

Richard Moore (credited)

Inks

Larry Mayer

Colors

Susan Daigle-Leach (credited as Sue Daigle)

Letters

Bill Spicer ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I have to be going now!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Winnie-the-Pooh; Piglet

Synopsis

Using his unique logic, Pooh discusses the relative distance between himself and Piglet.

Reprints

• from Winnie-the-Pooh Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1984.05.06

Keywords

forest setting; relative distance

The Water War (Table of Contents: 6)

Bucky Bug / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Veve Risto (credited as Vivie Risto)

Inks

Veve Risto (credited as Vivie Risto)

Colors

?

Letters

Veve Risto (credited as Vivie Risto)

Editing

Alice Nielsen Cobb (original editor); Carl Buettner (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Our gardens are dying, dear, I fear! We've had so little rain this year!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Bucky Bug; June Bug; waterbug soldiers; junkville airport master; dragon-fly plane; Mister Centipede

Synopsis

An army of waterbugs, wearing WWI type helmets and using eye droppers as water cannons, dam the creek bed leading from the reservoir to Junkville in order to force the Junkville bugs out and allow the waterbugs to take over. With too many waterbugs to take head on, Bucky devises a covert plan to restore the rightful flow of water.

Reprints

• from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #v4#9 (45) (June 1944)

Keywords

army; bugs; creek; dam; firecracker; reconnaissance; reservoir

Indexer Notes

Originally untitled. Title becomes official with this reprint.

Damming a creek to drive someone out is a sort of staple of westerns and is delightfully odd to see it applied to bugs.

The Case of the Hungry Ghost [Chapter Three] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Hired by Fingal P. MacFingal, the eccentric owner of a transplanted Scottish castle, to investigate the disappearance of food, supposedly stolen by a ghost, Mickey and Goofy escape from a dungeon where they had been trapped...

Feature Logo

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

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery; humor

Characters

Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Chief O'Hara; Fingal P. MacFingal; Skragg (MacFingal's butler); Jake

Synopsis

Mickey and Goofy solve the mystery and expose the ghost with some culinary trickery.

Reprints

• from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #v16#10 (190) (July 1956)

Keywords

castle; detective; food; ghost; mystery; Scotland; theft

Indexer Notes

Part 3 of 3.