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Issue: Walt Disney Chip 'n' Dale #79
Publication Date: May 1983
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Issues: #79 of 83 Issues (133 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: WhitmanView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/24/1983
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Del Connell (managing editor); Del Connell (story editor); Larry Mayer (art director)No date
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 90214. No date on comic, but copyright says 1982; publication date as per Overstreet; also publication date and on-sale (print) date per The Comic Reader #209.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age; standard Modern Age
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
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Taking Shelter from Rain Under Mushroom as Umbrella

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Carey
Inker(s): Larry Mayer
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Chip 'n' Dale
Character(s): Chip; Dale
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Gregory
Inker(s): Bill Wright
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Whitman Comics; Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: They’re looking for you! And you’ll find them in Whitman Comics
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color ad on inside front cover. Reproduces the cover illustration for Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (1966 series) #54 February 1979.

Whitman house ad for Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks.
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The Enchanted Forest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vic Lockman
Penciller(s): Cliff Voorhees
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Chip 'n' Dale
Character(s): Chip; Dale; Zip; Zap; Boyd Bird; leaping toad stool; evil trees; The Babbling Brook (grouchy water that speaks in rhyme); trampled grass
First Line: Yoo-hoo! Uncle Chip! Uncle Dale!
Synopsis: Nephews Zip ‘n’ Zap follow a leaping toadstool into “The Enchanted Forest”, a place where nature is bewitched. Chip ‘n’ Dale search for them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: C 'N' D #79
Disclose Notes: This “Enchanted Forest” is an angry, Bizarro-type version of the Enchanted Forest so often seen in Harvey Comics.
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Chipmunk Migration

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vic Lockman
Penciller(s): Cliff Voorhees
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Chip 'n' Dale
Character(s): Chip; Dale; Three Little Pigs [Practical Pig; Fifer Pig; Fiddler Pig]; Big Bad Wolf; Boyd Bird; Mrs. Boyd Bird
First Line: (Yawn-n!) How come birdies never get ho-hummy an’ bored?
Synopsis: To relive their boredom, Chip ‘n’ Dale take a lesson from the birds and migrate from one home to another. In so doing, they foil the Big Bad Wolf.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Boyd Bird may or may not be intended as the same character from the previous story. He is colored brown here, and blue in the previous story, suggesting a sparrow and a bluebird respectively.
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Counterfeit Conscience

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vic Lockman
Penciller(s): Cliff Voorhees
Inker(s): Tony DiPaola
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Chip 'n' Dale
Character(s): Chip; Dale; Bobbie Bug; Jiminy Cricket; Big Bad Wolf; Brer Fox; Brer Bear; Boyd Bird; Betsy Bird (Mrs. Boyd Bird); Mr. Raccoon
First Line: Wake up!
Synopsis: Bobbie Bug takes over as “Official Conscience” (complete with badge) from Jiminy Cricket. He guilts all the forest creatures into feeding “needy” Brer Bear.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Boyd Bird and Betsy Bird (named here) would appear to be the same characters from the previous story, as they are both colored brown.
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Instant Camping

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vic Lockman
Penciller(s): Kay Wright
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Chip 'n' Dale
Character(s): Chip; Dale; Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Robber Crow; Mrs. Gopher
First Line: Huh? Never saw cube-shape nut before!
Synopsis: Gyro Gearloose’s instant camping inventions fail to work as planned, this time with some help from Chip 'n' Dale and Gyro's own Helper.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This is the third story from Western Publishing to be titled “Instant Camping”, all of which involve Gyro Gearloose. The others appear in Uncle Scrooge (1963 series) #57 May 1965, and Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (1966 series) #36 January 1976. Vic Lockman may have written all three stories.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Whitman Comics; Little Lulu
Character(s): Little Lulu; Tubby; Mr. Moppett
First Line: She’s Mr. Moppet’s little girl.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color ad on inside back cover.

Whitman house ad for Little Lulu.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Whitman Comics
First Line: Meet your favorite comic characters and enjoy exciting adventure in... Whitman Comics.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color ad on back cover.

House ad for Whitman Comics.

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