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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #12 / 456
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Publisher: FlagWestern
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Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 38
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0335009001109
Price: $0.35 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Del Connell
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Golf Ball in the Side Pocket

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
The boys play their own style of "miniature golf" on Donald's pool table.
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Miscellaneous
1
Lost Frontier

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Captain Gadabout; mesa-dwelling cavemen
Look out, Captain Gadabout! That snowman will get you!
On a remote high mesa, Donald and the nephews discover cavemen.
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Miscellaneous
10
Conscience Mission

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Wh-who's there so early in the morning?
Li'l Wolf appeals to Jiminy Cricket to be a conscience to his big, bad pop! It works, but only to a small and unexpected degree.
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Miscellaneous
3
Figaro's Deal

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Minnie Mouse; Clarabelle Cow; Grandma Duck; Mickey Mouse; Figaro; seven other cats
"You should see how nicely my garden is growing," said Minnie Mouse proudly.
Minnie makes a deal with her pet cat Figaro that, if the cat keeps Minnie's strawberries safe from birds until her garden party, she will supply Figaro with plenty of cream. Figaro enlists the help of seven more cats to assist, forcing Minnie to come up with more payment-cream than she expected.
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Miscellaneous
1
Mickey Mouse and the Last Minute Mutiny

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
mayor; contest judge; Black Pete; Matey
And I hereby take possession in thuh name of Their Royal Highnesses, Thuh King and Queen of...
Goofy hopes to win first prize of fifteen hundred dollars in a contest where homemade ships recreate the landing of Spanish explorers 500 years ago. Black Pete and his henchman, Matey, try to cheat their way to a win with a live cannon and a hidden outboard motor.
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Miscellaneous
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As Black Pete's crimes go, cheating to win $1,500 in a sailing contest is not huge but, keeping in character, he *did* fire a live cannon at Goofy and Mickey's ship.

As was Disney and/or Western's practice at the time, Black Pete is renamed simply "Pete", with Paul Murry's original lettering modified to accommodate the change in several places.

In the original printing, Pete entered the contest under the name of "Sir Peter Black". In this edited reprint, his alias was just "Sir Peter".
Popeye's Back!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Gold Key Comics; Popeye
Popeye; Brutus
And Gold Key's got him!
Popeye smacks Brutus to celebrate the Sailor Man's return to Gold Key Comics.
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Miscellaneous
1
The Popeye comic book series returns to Western Publishing's Gold Key and Whitman Comics, from a long stint at Charlton, with issue #139 cover-dated May 1978. https://www.comics.org/issue/227786/

While all new material for this title would be drawn by George Wildman (who also drew most of the previous series for Charlton), this ad features a repurposed illustration of Popeye and Brutus by classic Popeye comic book and comic strip artist Bud Sagendorf.
Small Fry Flyers

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Ouch! I tailgated by airplane!
Chip and Dale take a joy ride in a rubber-band wind-up model plane, only to find they can't steer it.
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Miscellaneous
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Only two of Donald Duck's three nephews appear in this story - Louie (red cap) and Dewey (blue cap).

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