Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #718

(April 2011)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

70 Years Walt Disney's Comics

Characters

Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Donald Duck (1930s versions, all in repurposed art)

Keywords

contents; credits; repurposed art

Just in Time (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

William Van Horn (credited)

Pencils

William Van Horn (credited)

Inks

William Van Horn (credited)

Colors

Egmont (credited)

Letters

William Van Horn (credited)

Job Number

D 2007-305

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Donald has a new job, and it is boring, boring, BORING!

Feature Logo

Donald Duck [William Van Horn Logo- Single Line]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; research center's chief scientist; team of technicians; brontosaurus; tyrannosaurus rex; pterodactyl; stegosaurus

Synopsis

Bored and sleepy at his janitorial night job at a scientific research center, Donald crawls into a time travel capsule for a nap and is transported back 65 million years.

Keywords

carelessness; dinosaurs; prehistoric setting; time travel

The Inventor's Inventor (Table of Contents: 3)

Gyro Gearloose / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Branko Collin (credited); Paul Hoogma (credited); Wilfred Ottenheijm (credited); Jonathan H. Gray (credited as Jonathan Gray) (translation); Marc Middelhuis (credited)

Pencils

Bas Heymans (credited)

Inks

Bas Heymans (credited)

Colors

Sanoma (credited)

Letters

David Gerstein (credited)

Job Number

H97174

First Line of Dialogue or Text

>Ack!< 4 PM already! I've got three more gadgets to invent before closing time, and there's not enough me to invent them!

Feature Logo

Gyro Gearloose Dell Logo 1

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Megahelper

Synopsis

Behind on his inventing schedule, Gyro invents Megahelper, a robot inventor that is both better than he and takes everything literally.

Reprints

• from Donald Duck (Sanoma Uitgevers, 2002 series) #38/2006 (2006)

Keywords

getting-more-than-you-bargained-for; inventor; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

GOOD BIT: Gyro rests in the hot sun of his back yard... "Whew! But it's as hot as the dickens out here! If only I had a tree for some shade..."

Whipping up a portable tree with spray jets for fresh pine scent, Megahelper presents his invention to Gyro with the phrase "Tip-Top Topiary" - which was the title of the Donald Duck lead story in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 Series) #533 (October 1988). https://www.comics.org/issue/45024/#248582

To the Moon by Noon (Table of Contents: 4)

Mickey Mouse / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Torcivia (credited)

Pencils

Paul Murry (credited)

Inks

Paul Murry (credited)

Colors

Egmont (credited)

Letters

David Gerstein (credited)

Job Number

S 63085

First Line of Dialogue or Text

1963... when the "Giant Leap for Mankind" on the Moon was still six years away! 1963 also marked this classic team-up for Mickey Mouse and Ludwig Von Drake --

Feature Logo

Walt Disney Mickey Mouse [Dell/Western Modern Logo - Single Line]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Mickey Mouse, Ludwig Von Drake; Dr. Greymatter; other scientists

Synopsis

In 1963, Ludwig Von Drake is first to set foot on the Moon - but needs Mickey's help to prove it to skeptical scientists as a class reunion.

Keywords

1963; class reunion; competition; exploring; inventions; moon; outer space setting; rocket ship; scientists

Indexer Notes

Produced by Disney Studio Overseas Comic Book Program; original title "Proof Positive".

NOTES FROM THE SCRIPTER:

For perhaps the first time in American comics, the dialogue of Ludwig Von Drake was written in a way that reflected the talents of the character's original voice actor Paul Frees - absent minded, easily distracted, going off on tangents, and with trailing digressions appearing in a smaller font. Subsequent USA dialoguing for the character has followed suit.

The running gag of Ludwig absent-mindedly forgetting that Mickey "was there" with him, and continually behaving as if the Mouse had just walked onto the scene each time they interacted, was completely a product of the 2011 script. The plot progression, art, and existing dialogue balloons of this unpublished 1963 story aligned serendipitously to allow for this to take place. From this it also can be inferred that Mickey did not *enter* the story in the opening splash panel - but "was there" already for him to be "first-noticed" by Ludwig once again.

Also referenced by the 2011 script are "Medfield College" (site of a number of 1960s-1970s Disney movies) and physicist "Brainerd Brainmore" from Carl Barks' "The Swamp of No Return" in Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 Series) #57 (May 1965) - here said to have "split an atomic infinitive" in 1959 causing a massive clean-up effort.

Mickey's Mailbag (Table of Contents: 5)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Christopher Meyer (credited)

Pencils

Daan Jippes (cover art for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #719); ?

Inks

Daan Jippes (cover art for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #719); ?

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Welcome back to another Mickey's Mailbag!

Characters

Mickey Mouse (repurposed art); Donald Duck (cover art from the next issue, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #719).

Keywords

cover reproduction; letters of comment; repurposed art

Indexer Notes

Letters from Carl Lund, Mateo Williford, Evan Laundrie