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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #718
Publication Date: April 2011
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Issues: #718 of 22 Issues (41 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBoom! Studios
Brand: kaboom!; 70 Years Walt Disney's Comics
Indicia Publisher: KaBOOM!
On Sale Date: 04/27/2011
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 84428400164971811
Price: $3.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=us/WDC%20718
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Tyrannosaurus, Vexed!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Tyrannosaurus Rex
Synopsis: Donald is pursued by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Donald Duck (1930s versions, all in repurposed art)
First Line: 70 Years Walt Disney's Comics
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Pages: 1
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Just in Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; research center's chief scientist; team of technicians; brontosaurus; tyrannosaurus rex; pterodactyl; stegosaurus
First Line: Donald has a new job, and it is boring, boring, BORING!
Synopsis: Bored and sleepy at his janitorial night job at a scientific research center, Donald crawls into a time travel capsule for a nap and is transported back 65 million years.
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Pages: 10
Job Number: D 2007-305
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The Inventor's Inventor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Marc Middelhuis (credited)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Megahelper
First Line: >Ack!< 4 PM already! I've got three more gadgets to invent before closing time, and there's not enough me to invent them!
Synopsis: Behind on his inventing schedule, Gyro invents Megahelper, a robot inventor that is both better than he and takes everything literally.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: H97174
Disclose Notes: GOOD BIT: Gyro rests in the hot sun of his back yard... "Whew! But it's as hot as the dickens out here! If only I had a tree for some shade..."

Whipping up a portable tree with spray jets for fresh pine scent, Megahelper presents his invention to Gyro with the phrase "Tip-Top Topiary" - which was the title of the Donald Duck lead story in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 Series) #533 (October 1988). https://www.comics.org/issue/45024/#248582
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To the Moon by Noon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse, Ludwig Von Drake; Dr. Greymatter; other scientists
First Line: 1963... when the "Giant Leap for Mankind" on the Moon was still six years away! 1963 also marked this classic team-up for Mickey Mouse and Ludwig Von Drake --
Synopsis: In 1963, Ludwig Von Drake is first to set foot on the Moon - but needs Mickey's help to prove it to skeptical scientists as a class reunion.
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Pages: 10
Job Number: S 63085
Disclose Notes: Produced by Disney Studio Overseas Comic Book Program; original title "Proof Positive".

NOTES FROM THE SCRIPTER:

For perhaps the first time in American comics, the dialogue of Ludwig Von Drake was written in a way that reflected the talents of the character's original voice actor Paul Frees - absent minded, easily distracted, going off on tangents, and with trailing digressions appearing in a smaller font. Subsequent USA dialoguing for the character has followed suit.

The running gag of Ludwig absent-mindedly forgetting that Mickey "was there" with him, and continually behaving as if the Mouse had just walked onto the scene each time they interacted, was completely a product of the 2011 script. The plot progression, art, and existing dialogue balloons of this unpublished 1963 story aligned serendipitously to allow for this to take place. From this it also can be inferred that Mickey did not *enter* the story in the opening splash panel - but "was there" already for him to be "first-noticed" by Ludwig once again.

Also referenced by the 2011 script are "Medfield College" (site of a number of 1960s-1970s Disney movies) and physicist "Brainerd Brainmore" from Carl Barks' "The Swamp of No Return" in Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 Series) #57 (May 1965) - here said to have "split an atomic infinitive" in 1959 causing a massive clean-up effort.
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Mickey's Mailbag

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mickey Mouse (repurposed art); Donald Duck (cover art from the next issue, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #719).
First Line: Welcome back to another Mickey's Mailbag!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Carl Lund, Mateo Williford, Evan Laundrie

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