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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #8 (248)
Publication Date: May 1961
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Issues: #8 (248) of 264 Issues (310 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/30/1961
Volume: 21
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Big Dell Comics Contest. Credits based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
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A Crabby Day for Donald

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Mickey Mouse; Pluto; crab
Synopsis: Donald slides down a slide with a large crab at the end.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #10 published August 1990
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #28/1962 published July 1962
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #34 published January 2008
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Terrible Tourist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; squad of Hondorican police; first senorita; second senorita; second senorita's papa; Conchita; the Duckburgian Consul to Hondorica
First Line: There are two kinds of tourists roaming foreign lands - the proper kind and -
Synopsis: Donald obsessively attempts to gather Latin American souvenirs and is most obsessed with getting a rose from a balcony-serenaded senorita as the ultimate prize.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTopolino #304 published September 1961
as Paperino turista romantico [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #9/1962 published February 1962
as Donald Duck som turist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v39 #9 / 465 [Gold Key] published June 1979
as Terrible Tourist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #10 published August 1990
as Terrible Tourist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald and Mickey #28 published March 1995
as Terrible Tourist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color #42 published June 1995
as Terrible Tourist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #34 published January 2008
as Um Turista do Barulho [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Donald and the boys visit Hondorica, the locale of a previous adventure in Barks' earlier "Secret of Hondorica" in (Dell, 1952 Series) #46 (March-April 1956). https://www.comics.org/issue/12731/#106997

Serenading gags reworked from an originally unpublished story in which Donald aggressively serenades Neighbor Jones with Christmas Carols. The Neighbor Jones story has since been printed in various collections.
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Mud Puddle Muddle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Scamp; Tramp; Brownie (farm collie); Mrs. Pig; Spotty (mischievous piglet); other piglets; calf; geese; hawk; bull; chicken; horse
First Line: Springtime is Scamp's favorite time of the year... it fills him with excitement, but it also gets a little wearing on Tramp, his pop...
Synopsis: Scamp gets to spend a day as a farm dog and saves a mischievous little piglet from a hawk.
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In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #11/1962 published March 1962
as Gårdshunden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Scamp #17 [Gold Key] published May 1974
as Mud Puddle Muddle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Grand Opening! The Dell Trading Post is open for business!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dell Comics; Dell Trading Post
Character(s): Yogi Bear (as a toy premium); Huckleberry Hound (on a fictitious Dell Comics cover)
First Line: Only Dell Comics offer these outstanding premium values!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Dell Comics promotion for various prizes in exchange for a combination of money and the top cover strips from Dell Comics. The combinations vary by the nature and value of the prizes. Quote: "Cut off the top strip of each Dell Comic cover. Be sure the strip includes the name of the comic and the new Dell Comics seal. When you have enough cover strips for the item(s) you want, put them in an envelope together with the required amount of money and the coupon at the right."

Prizes displayed in the ad are: "Giant Space Map", "Kodak Brownie Bullet Camera", "Shaggy Dog" (stuffed animal - not the Disney film version), "Secret Seal Ring", "Desk Set" (pen, ruler, and letter opener), "Set of 5 Lifelike Dolls", "Giant Periscope", "Secret Pocket Wallet", Baseball Glove" "Teenage Pocketbook", "Slave Bracelet" ("...with your own initials in script"), and "Yogi Bear Toy" (vinyl squeeze toy).

The image of a fictitious Huckleberry Hound Dell Comics cover, with a "handless" pair of scissors cutting off the Dell Comics top cover strip, is pictured in the ad. The ad covers both middle pages of the centerfold.
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Red Riding Hoodwinker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Li'l Bad Wolf; Big Bad Wolf [Zeke Wolf]; Three Little Pigs [Practical Pig; Fifer Pig; Fiddler Pig]; Granny Wolf
First Line: Oh-oh! There's my pop sneaking up on the Three Pigs!
Synopsis: Reading (...more looking at the pictures) of Li'l Wolf's "Little Red Riding Hood" book, Zeke gets the idea of posing as Granny Wolf to snare the pigs.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTopolino #304 published September 1961
as Il Lupo Cattivo e la finta nonna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #16/1962 published April 1962
as Rødhette og Ulven [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck #12/1992 published March 1992
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]Oorspronkelijke titel: "Red Riding Hoodwinker"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Granny Wolf would appear to be Zeke's mother, and Li'l Wolf's grandmother. Li'l Wolf tells the Pigs: "I inherited my goodness from HER! She's not like Pop!"
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A Goofy T-V

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy
First Line: Mickey Mouse climbed the rickety steps of Goofy's house and rang the doorbell.
Synopsis: Following a supplied schematic, and jumbling it with road map diagrams, Goofy invents a television set with world-wide reception.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v39 #9 / 465 [Gold Key] published June 1979
as A Goofy T-V [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Moon-Blot Plot, Episode III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Gyro Gearloose; The Rover Rogue Boys
First Line: In an attempt to prevent the notorious Rover Rogue Boys from blotting out the Moon with a fantastic dye, Mickey, Goofy, and Gyro are in a rocket on their way to the Moon. Pursued by the Rover Rogue Boys' rocket, Mickey plans an escape...
Synopsis: Mickey's delaying tactic in the asteroid cluster sufficiently slows The Rover Rogue Boys, allowing our heroes to beat them to the Moon. There, they set a trap for the rapidly approaching villains.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAlmanacco Topolino #58 published October 1961
as Topolino e l' oscuramento della luna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #29/1962 published July 1962
as Kubeingjengen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMickey Mouse #217 published January 1984
as The Moon-Blot Plot, Episode III [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Part 3 of 3.

The Rover Rogue Boys, who only appeared in this one story, would seem to be a "substitute for The Beagle Boys", as discussed in the text article "The Winds (and Fog) of Change" by Joe Torcivia, appearing in Disney Masters (Fantagraphics, 2018 Series) #21 - Walt Disney Mickey Mouse: The Monster of Sawtooth Mountain (October 2022). https://www.comics.org/issue/2443125/#3600025

Like The Beagle Boys, The Rover Rogue Boys are a trio of burglar-masked, dog-face crooks, only of different and individualized physical dimensions.

In Episode I, Paul Murry draws Gyro Gearloose with hair (or a hairpiece) atop his head - and down the back and sides of his head. In Episodes II and III, the inventor is drawn more conventionally with just a "birds-nest" of hair or toupee between his dome and his hat.

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