(August 1989)

Gladstone, 1986 Series
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Price
1.50 USD; 1.95 CAD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly except January and May
On-sale Date
1989-05-09
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
Brand
Gladstone Giant
Editing
John Clark (credited as Leonard John Clark) (associate editor); Byron Erickson (credited) (editor-in-chief); Geoffrey Blum (credited) (associate editor)

[Butterfly Face-Off] (Table of Contents)

Donald Duck / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walt Kelly (credited)
Inks
Walt Kelly (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Alice Nielsen Cobb (original editor); Carl Buettner (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Now! Every Issue Oversized!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; butterfly
Synopsis
Net wielding Donald and a smug butterfly stare each other down.
Reprints
Keywords
butterfly; butterfly hunting; butterfly net; staring contest

Comics Comments (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
?
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
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
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
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
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
Keywords
castle; detective; food; ghost; mystery; Scotland; theft

Indexer Notes

Part 3 of 3.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Butterfly Face-Off]
    Donald Duck
  2. 1. Comics Comments
    Comics Comments
  3. 2. Raising Cains
    Donald Duck
  4. 3. Goofy Meets the Reluctant Dragon
    Goofy
  5. 4. Little Sir Show-Off
    Scamp
  6. 5. [Dissonant Distancing]
    Winnie-the-Pooh
  7. 6. The Water War
    Bucky Bug
  8. 7. The Case of the Hungry Ghost [Chapter Three]
    Mickey Mouse
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Stangas
  • Joe Torcivia
  • Jim Van Dore