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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #512

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Publication Date: November 1986

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Issues: #512 of 37 Issues (54 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Gladstone

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.

On Sale Date: 08/05/1986

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07148602686011

Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Byron Erickson (editor-in-chief); Leonard Clark [John Clark] (assistant editor); Geoffrey Blum (associate editor); Mike McCormick (art director)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #512 [Direct Edition]

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #512 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (7 total)

Fishing for the Big Ones

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis: While Huey, Dewey, and Louie fish with stick-rods, Donald does his fishing with a derrick.

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Pages: 1

A Gander at Gladstone

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): Gladstone Publishing

First Line: The first few issues of a new comic book title represent a time of utter horror to editors.

Synopsis: John Clark explains how foreign Disney comic book stories are prepared for American publication.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.

The Success Test

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; Mr. Piedtype (publisher of the Duckburg Times); various citizens of Duckburg

First Line: Duckburg Times: Times Publisher Organizes Grandiose Success Test!

Synopsis: The Duckburg Times runs a business success contest, for which Donald and Gladstone are the two selected entrants. Gladstone is given an old ferry boat, made obsolete by a modern bridge, while Donald is given a bottom-dredging mud barge.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: H 763

Notes: Title becomes an "official title", with the reprint in Disney Masters Volume 4.

This story is evocative of Carl Barks' "Merry Ferry" from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 Series) #260 (May 1962) https://www.comics.org/issue/16946/#132554, but with lucky Gladstone Gander operating the outmoded ferry rather than Donald.

Salad Storm Warning!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Croc; Brat; Flizard; Bumblelion; Butterbear

First Line: Drat! Fruit-flooded out of my own home!

Synopsis: Croc fakes a broken leg to shelter from a salad storm with Bumblelion and Butterbear.

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Pages: 4

Job Number: S 85298

Notes: Originally produced for Disney Studio Overseas Comic Book Program. Art is credited to "The Walt Disney Studios".

Mixed-Up Mixer

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Grandma Duck; Billy the Goat

First Line: Those heavy rains in the mountains worry me!

Synopsis: Gyro uses his new cement mixer to build a dam on Grandma's farm when a flood hits, then Grandma uses it to mix bread for flood refugees.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: GGOS 1095

The Vanishing Railroad [Chapter Two]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Gruggers (chauffeur); Mr. Boomer (railroad owner); The Clinker Brothers (two tired has-been outlaws)

First Line: Mickey and Goofy are engineer and fireman on a small mountain railroad, the Tankburg, Cinder City & Pacific. Unknown to them, a gang is plotting to steal the train and sell it to a railroad hobbyist for a fortune...

Synopsis: Railroad cars continue to "vanish" on Mickey and Goofy's watch. An angry Mr. Boomer blames the pair for the disappearances and orders them to go over every inch of track on foot in order to locate the missing cars. Meanwhile, during Mickey and Goofy's demotion, the Clinker Brothers are hired by Mr. Boomer to run the engine, playing right into the hands of Gruggers who is behind the thefts.

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Pages: 7.75

Job Number: WDC&S 186

Notes: Part 2 of 3.

Pound for Sound

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Duckburg Symphony Orchestra

First Line: I’d love to hear the concert, but doggoned if I will pay five dollars for a seat!

Synopsis: Uncle Scrooge and Donald each find ways to sneak into a concert by the Duckburg Symphony Orchestra. Scrooge's hiding place is much less successful.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: US 15

Notes: Gag page is untitled in this issue; provenance of the recorded title is unknown.