Gold Key Digests: They Shone Out Like a Shaft of Gold, When All Around Was Dark

                    Walt Disney Comics Digest #26 (December 1970)

Mickey and Goofy follow a parrot to a treasure while being shadowed by two crooks. Jiminy Cricket gives a lesson on Elephant Evolution. Donald has a very unlucky run-in with a horseshoe. And “Elephant Man” meant something very different at the time! Did not have it as a kid but do now.

Walt Disney Comics Digest #27 (February 1971)

The Aristocats movie had come out the year before and we saw it in the theater; here it is offered in story form with some illustrations. The nephews make a monkey out of Donald when he tries to take a funny film of them to send into TV. Big Bad Wolf fakes a gingerbread house to lure the Pigs. Brer Bear hunts Thumper for his stewpot and the Seven Dwarfs help him escape. We had this one, I’m pretty sure. I remember seeing a girl on the bus with a copy and wanting it, so it must have been gone by then. Anyway, I have it now.

Walt Disney Comics Digest #28 (April 1971)

Special Frontier Issue. All stories themed about the early West. Mickey leads a wagon train! “Only fence-lizards and loco-heads go out inna midday sun!” Davy Crockett. Uncle Scrooge captains a riverboat race against the Beagle Boys with Gyro’s grandfather as engineer. “Paddle wheel, paddle wheel, on a blue hill! When the wind blows, the crows stand still!” Had it and have it.

Walt Disney Comics Digest #29 (June 1971)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (almost sure it’s a Paul Murry)! Donald tells the Nephews to learn from the ants … and they do! Goofy accidentally buys the picture of a fish at an auction and tries to make his money back. “Feet-smeet! Let’s eat!” Scrooge returns to an old mining town that mysteriously comes and goes. And Gyro Gearloose invents an unhittable ball and an unmissable bat that cause chaos at the local game. Had and have.

Walt Disney Comics Digest #30 (August 1971)

Donald and Pinocchio get their jollies with a mood-altering fruit, Gus and Jaq eat a delicious-looking meal at Daisy’s diner, Mickey loses a circus bear that steals a delicious-looking piece of cake from the Seven Dwarfs, Scrooge becomes a partner at the Nephews’ lemonade stand and overindulges while trying to test their business-savvy, and after all this food Daisy tries to lose weight when a faulty scale gives her some misleading information. Gyro does some genetic engineering on the local trees, but as usual can’t please everybody. Had and have.