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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #4 (448)

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Detail

Issues: #4 (448) of 257 Issues (332 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Western

Brand: Gold Key

Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.

On Sale Date: 11/1977

Volume: 38

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0335009001101

Price: $0.35 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: Cover code: 90011-801. Cover price increases from 30 to 35 cents.

Issue #448 is the first 35-cent issue, though the previous issue (#447) was a 52-page giant priced at 50-cents. Issue #446 and its immediate predecessors were priced at 30-cents.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- Mailbox Baffler [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Reprinted From4

4 Content Items

reprinted 4 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (7 total)

Jumping Jack(et)s

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

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

Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie play "jump into the fireman's net", with Donald's sailor jacket as the net.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Stalwart Ranger

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; marine-like forest ranger I; marine-like forest ranger II; tall flabby recruit; short flabby recruit; big horn mountain sheep; adoring female tourists

First Line: Duckburg's Forest Service is having a hard time finding recruits!

Synopsis: Desperate for new recruits, the Duckburg Forest Service gives feeble modern-manhood specimen Donald the softest type of stamina test possible - the counting of mountain sheep. But Donald can't seem to count more than three sheep at a time before falling asleep.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories v23 #2 (266) published November 1962
was Stalwart Ranger [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: In this story, Barks makes the most out of the old cliché about "counting sheep to fall asleep".

Great Line: In discussing Donald's sorry physical condition, one marine-like forest ranger says to the other: "He looks as if he'd dissolve into a puddle if his clothes didn't hold him together!"

Yeah, But Who's Gonna Lick 'Em?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; switchboard operator; railroad board of directors

First Line: Well, what's the answer?

Synopsis: After some tough negotiations, Scrooge agrees to buy the Toot Toot and Clackety Clack Railroad, but only if the deal includes a premium of truckloads full of trading stamps.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories v25 #6 (294) published March 1965
was Buys the Toot Toot and Clackety Clack R.R. [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Ya Just Can't Be Friends With a Cat!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Tuffy (cat); Tuffy's cat gang

First Line: GROWF!

Synopsis: Mickey forces Pluto to become friends with Tuffy the Cat... but soon discovers the folly in fostering feline friendships.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories v25 #6 (294) published March 1965
was Tuffy's Friends [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Goofy's Big Moment

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Minnie Mouse; Figaro; Chip; Dale; lots of happy children

First Line: "Look what I bought, Mick!" Goofy called out.

Synopsis: Figaro and Chip 'n' Dale inadvertently enhance Goofy's magic act.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories v23 #1 (265) published October 1962
was Goofy's Big Moment [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Mailbox Baffler

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gyro Gearloose; Boxy (aka Posty, Gyro's walking mailbox) walking mailbox); mailman; cab driver

First Line: Yes, here is Mr. Gearloose's mail.

Synopsis: Gyro decides to give Boxy (his walking mailbox) a workout, only to find the bipedal-box to be more full of pep than he thought.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Donald Duck & Co #39/1978 published September 1978
as Postproblemer [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: New story. Gyro's walking mailbox, more often referred to as "Posty", is named "Boxy" in this story.

Sea Scrape

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Crusoe Robinson; Black Pete; Scuttle

First Line: Goofy, look! There ought to be a good campsite on that nice little point.

Synopsis: Mickey and Goofy camp out on a small island, unaware that it is the artificial floating home of reclusive Crusoe Robinson. Pirate renegades Black Pete and Scuttle run across this "uncharted island" and claim it as their own.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: New story. Great Line: Mickey at sea on the floating island, on the uncanny coincidence of yet again encountering Pete: "Omigosh! Two thirds of the world is ocean... and still we end up in the same neighborhood as Pete!"