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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #557

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Publication Date: March 1991

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Issues: #557 of 38 Issues (58 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Disney

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: W.D. Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: 1561151238

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.95 CAD
$1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; White Matte Interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #557 [Direct]

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #557 [Newsstand]

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

Reprinted From2

2 Content Items
- Avalanche Valley [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- Mickey Mouse and the Pharaoh's Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

Avalanche Valley

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

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

Synopsis: Donald drives frantically through Avalanche Valley, hoping to avoid a pair of oncoming avalanches.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: KS 7590

Notes: Cover illustrates the issue's lead story.

Avalanche Valley

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; resort owner; Junior Woodchuck in cabin; snow hermit

First Line: I've sold a song, boys! We're loaded with cash!

Synopsis: Donald writes a song titled "The Screaming Cowboy", the loud sounds of which cause avalanches that are blamed on a kindly snow hermit.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories v12 #5 (137) published February 1952
was The Screaming Cowboy [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Also widely known as "The Screaming Cowboy", this story is among the best-known and most popular of Carl Barks' Donald Duck ten-pagers from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

Barks is not credited for lettering.

The published credits in this issue say: "Originally printed June, 1951". That is false, as Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #137 (the original source of this story) has a cover date of February, 1952. That would more than likely mean it was released in December, 1951.

Confusion on the part of the editors may have resulted from this note, attached to the story in WDC&S #137: "Art submitted on June 21, 1951. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from 'Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book' (M. Lilien, 1982)." June, 1951 would appear to be the date of submission, not the date of publication.

Water, Water, Everywhere

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Ludwig Von Drake

First Line: Greetings, students of H2O…

Synopsis: Ludwig lectures the readers on water, and how to find it.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: KS 5490

Dog Trouble

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Bardon (credited as "Bardon")

Inker(s): Bardon (credited as "Bardon")

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; dog

First Line: What's up, Little Helper? Is something wrong?

Synopsis: Gyro frees a dog, tangled up in its chain. Then finds out why it was chained in the first place.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: D 5148

Mickey Mouse and the Pharaoh's Curse

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Boris (museum guard); Professor Dustibones (museum curator); two police officers

First Line: Gosh! Listen to it thunder, Pluto!

Synopsis: Professor Dustibones asks Mickey to guard a pharaoh's sarcophagus at his museum. The inscription on the sarcophagus translates to "Death and eternal sleep to the defilers of a pharaoh's tomb!", prompting all the museum's guards to quit when strange phenomena begin manifesting.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Walt Disney's Comics- Wheaties Set B #1 published January 1950
was Mickey Mouse and the Pharaoh's Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]For the reprint, the story is remounted to "three tiers per page", vs. the "one tier per page" format of the original printing. One reprint-page equals three original-pages, making the reprinted version ten pages, vs. the thirty pages of the original printing.

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: W WVH B1-01

Notes: This story is reminiscent of a Floyd Gottfredson newspaper strip continuity, with Mickey as a plucky little scrapper, and uses the character of "Professor Dustibones" from the Gottfredson continuity "Land of Long Ago" (1940-1941). In this story, Professor Dustibones is depicted as a "human", as opposed to his original rendering as a more typical "Disney-dogface" character.

The published credit "Production by Larry Mayer" likely refers to remounting and panel resizing.

For this reprint, the story is remounted to "three tiers per page", vs. the "one tier per page" format of the original printing. One reprint-page equals three original-pages, making the reprinted version ten pages, vs. the thirty pages of the original printing.

Based on a side-by-side scan of both versions, every panel of the original is reproduced in the reprint.