Walt Disney’s Comics: #1 (December
1986) - #7 (September 1987)
Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge:
#1 (December 1986) – #5 (August 1987)
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: #1
(January 1987) - #5 (September 1987)
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck:
#2 (January 1987), #4 (May 1987), #5 (July 1987)
So much happened to me between
1976 and 1986, a whole decade of living. I had finished middle school, got a
job, graduated from high school, failed to graduate college, and was back home
with Mom and Pop, trying to figure out how to have a life and find a way to go
on. The sudden appearance of Walt Disney’s Comics Digest was like an echo of
childhood, a reminder of innocence and of how far I had travelled.
And, of course, they were
just fun to read. Reprints of old stories from the Forties on up, adaptations
of Disney films, stories I remembered from the old Digests (this was before I
started collecting them again), and a tale or two that I recalled from old
regular comic books of long, long ago. I was particularly overjoyed to see the
story with the Peter Pan characters and a piratical parrot called Yellowbeak
that I had read in Second Grade and never forgotten but had never seen again until
then. (I remember Smee cooking ‘slumgullion’ – and that became a nickname for
our family incarnation of chilimac.)`
“Shortly after Gladstone's
launching of its original 4 [comic book] titles in 1986, it was decided to
publish an additional four titles - only in digest form: Walt Disney's Comics
Digest, Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Digest, Walt Disney's Donald Duck Digest,
and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Digest. For slightly more than the cost of a
comic book, these pocket-sized editions contained 3 times the comic pages, were
kid-sized, and lasted longer because of the stiff covers. The kids had no
problem with the small printing...but enough older readers did ... such that it
was not economically feasible to continue their publication. After 5-7 issues
of each title, the digest series came to an end.” – brucehamilton.com
After finding the statement
above, it seems likely that I am only missing two volumes for sure, #1 and #3 of
the Donald Duck Digest. Perhaps more of the Mickey Mouse and Scrooge, but
perhaps not. Further research, I suppose, is indicated.
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