Golden Disney Duck Eggs for Easter
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You read “The Easter Mystery” in our recent Donald Duck and
Friends #326. And now it’s time for another thrilling Easter tale with
Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #655. Having shipped Wednesday, March
16, it should be in your nearest comics shop this week or next.
The egg
story of which we speak is “Full Circle,” written and drawn by
William Van Horn. When Duckburg Museum loses a million-dollar gold-plated
eggshell, the search is on to find it… and Donald hopes to get lucky. But our
walking jinx of a duck would never happen to stumble over a golden egg… now
would he? In truth, the golden egg is actually at large among our feathered
friend and his kinfolk — and you’ll get to watch as Scrooge, Donald’s nephews,
Uncle Rumpus and a variety of other luminaries let it slip through their
fingers!
Next on the WDC&S menu is “Sleep Tight,”
a great Goofy yarn by Lars Jensen (Donald Duck TNT stories), Chris
Spencer and Paco Rodriguez. Longtime Goofy fans know that Goofy isn’t dumb —
just really, really eccentric. But is Goofy himself aware of the distinction?
Ingesting some hi-tech brainpower pills, Goofy thinks his newfound extra smarts
will help him put paid to an annoying dripping faucet. But smarter though they
may be, Goofy’s solutions to the problem are as goofy as ever.
“Be
Leery of Lake Eerie” is a classic Junior Woodchucks story written by Carl
Barks and lately redrawn, by Daan Jippes, in high Barksian style. Duckburg’s
Lake Eerie is so polluted that it spawns a bona-fide monster — Trashivore, a
fierce dragon with skin like plastic bags. The dragon sets out to eat all the
garbage in the lake, but will he survive an onslaught by famed hunter Magnum
Highpower?
Mickey Mouse learns to “Knit One, Pearl Two” in a
great long adventure story by Pat and Carol McGreal and Paco Rodriguez. A trip
to far Eastern Bhummah finds Mickey and Minnie crossing paths with a pair of
gigantic pearls, a warlord named Phoo Man Choo Choo, and an unpredictable pirate
queen named Lotus Blossom. Combining spills and thrills with a rare blast of
Disney “good girl art,” this is high Mickey adventure in the spirit
of Bill Walsh and Carl Fallberg classics.
Wrapping up the book are two
classic tales from the early years of Disney comics. In Jack Bradbury’s
“Personality Perfection,” Practical Pig successfully makes his
foolish brothers into hard workers. And “Football Fandango,” a Carl
Buettner tale from 1944, offers an unusual take on Donald’s pals Jose Carioca
and Panchito Pistoles. Rather than being their usual slick selves, the parrot
and rooster are portrayed as hillbillies making their first visit to the city.
Uh-oh!
Gemstone is your source for new and vintage Disney greats. Order
our titles online at http://www.gemstonepub.com/disney
or http://www.walmart.com Seek
them out at your local comic shop. And if you can’t corner a comic shop, call
Diamond Comics’ Comic Shop Locator service at
1-888-COMIC-BOOK.
