Uncle Scrooge #373: “Last Hero of Banania”
After wak-worthy printing delays in November and December, Geppi’s Entertainment’s Gemstone Publishing continues its rush back to comic shops with a flock of new $7.99, 64-page Disney trade paperbacks. This week, you’ll find Uncle Scrooge #373 and Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #688, each featuring prime Duck and Mouse adventures never before anthologized in North America!
Why did the Scottish tycoon join a Caribbean backwater army? Uncle Scrooge becomes the "Last Hero of Banania" (Uncle Scrooge #373) when it’s the only way to inherit a long-lost ancestral treasure. But the fighting job comes with a most unusual foe: a savage tribe of ape-men whom Banania’s dicey politics won’t let him defeat. It’s an "out there" adventure as only Italy’s Rodolfo Cimino, Romano Scarpa, and Giorgio Cavazzano can serve up!
Next, Launchpad McQuack is a "Fool for Fuel" when it’s time to test Scrooge’s new "McDuck Hyperoctane" gas. But the pilot famed for bringing planes crashing to Earth ends up launching his race car into the sky! DuckTales scholar Christopher Barat provides dialogue for this Gorm Transgaard switcheroo.
In "Slightings," by fan favorite Lars Jensen, Magica De Spell is back, and King Midas’ magic gloves, her most recent magic acquisition, are back too. They enable her to cast a most frightening new spell this time and turn our favorite miser literally two-dimensional. Can Scrooge save his Number One Dime while in this awkward condition, or is he "flat" out of luck?
"Way Out of Africa," Kari Korhonen’s wrap-up adventure, presents a most unusual team-up. When the Beagle Boys travel to South Africa, hoping to rob Scrooge’s rival Flintheart Glomgold, Scrooge dispatches Donald there also, to make sure everything goes right for the old “176” gang. Should the Beagles enjoy South Africa, Scrooge figures, they’ll never return to plague him in Duckburg again. But nothing’s ever that simple with these adventurers.
Round things out with a Carl Barks Gyro four-pager, a Tony Strobl Scrooge short, and a brand-new Don Rosa Scrooge birthday pin-up, and Uncle Scrooge #373 is a book the miser himself couldn’t afford to miss.
But that’s only half the excitement from Gemstone this week, because Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #688 is here, too. In William Van Horn’s "Winks," with their only clue a mysterious riddle, Donald and the boys go looking for the lost treasure of Duckburg in the dead of winter, because it’s the only time of year when no one has ever looked! Sure enough, the heavy snowfall enables them to discover the riddle’s answer, but it comes with an unexpected price.
Next up we launch a Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse serial with “The Gleam,” a 1942 classic reprinted now for the first time in 25 years. Embellished with beautiful new Sue Daigle-Leach color, the tale tells of Mickey’s travails with the visiting Mousegomeries and with a dangerous, jewel-thieving swami out to shake up Mouseton society. Can Mickey and Detective Casey get to the bottom of the mayhem? What do you think?
Big Bad Wolf steals the show in Carl Buettner’s classic “Red Riding Hoodwinked!” The 1945 adventure tells of Zeke’s attempts to don grandma-gear and reenact the old fairy tale only to be thwarted every step of the way by his Li’l Bad son. Then it’s Pegleg Pete’s turn to be vanquished in Noel Van Horn’s “Stir Crazy!” When Pete traps Mickey in the hold of a boat, then sets out to steal a cargo of expensive designer wristwatches, you just know something’s going to go wrong.
Great new short stories are up next. In Mau Heymans’ “Renewed Feud,” Donald finally convinces Neighbor Jones to move away, but can’t convince himself that the lummox is really gone for good. And in “Who’s Who?” Brer Rabbit pulls another fast one on Brer Bear…or is it the other way around?
Filling out this month’s book is “Joe From Singapore,” a rowdy parrot with a pirate’s temper. He’s blown into Duckburg from a vintage 1946 Carl Barks classic, and Donald won’t soon forget his visit from the terror of the straits.
Gemstone is your source for new and vintage Disney greats. Find them at gemstonecomics.com, amazon.com, and walmart.com.
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Uncle Scrooge #373: “Last Hero of Banania”
After wak-worthy printing delays in November and December, Geppi’s Entertainment’s Gemstone Publishing continues its rush back to comic shops with a flock of new $7.99, 64-page Disney trade paperbacks. This week, you’ll find Uncle Scrooge #373 and Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #688, each featuring prime Duck and Mouse adventures never before anthologized in North America!
Why did the Scottish tycoon join a Caribbean backwater army? Uncle Scrooge becomes the "Last Hero of Banania" (Uncle Scrooge #373) when it’s the only way to inherit a long-lost ancestral treasure. But the fighting job comes with a most unusual foe: a savage tribe of ape-men whom Banania’s dicey politics won’t let him defeat. It’s an "out there" adventure as only Italy’s Rodolfo Cimino, Romano Scarpa, and Giorgio Cavazzano can serve up!
Next, Launchpad McQuack is a "Fool for Fuel" when it’s time to test Scrooge’s new "McDuck Hyperoctane" gas. But the pilot famed for bringing planes crashing to Earth ends up launching his race car into the sky! DuckTales scholar Christopher Barat provides dialogue for this Gorm Transgaard switcheroo.
In "Slightings," by fan favorite Lars Jensen, Magica De Spell is back, and King Midas’ magic gloves, her most recent magic acquisition, are back too. They enable her to cast a most frightening new spell this time and turn our favorite miser literally two-dimensional. Can Scrooge save his Number One Dime while in this awkward condition, or is he "flat" out of luck?
"Way Out of Africa," Kari Korhonen’s wrap-up adventure, presents a most unusual team-up. When the Beagle Boys travel to South Africa, hoping to rob Scrooge’s rival Flintheart Glomgold, Scrooge dispatches Donald there also, to make sure everything goes right for the old “176” gang. Should the Beagles enjoy South Africa, Scrooge figures, they’ll never return to plague him in Duckburg again. But nothing’s ever that simple with these adventurers.
Round things out with a Carl Barks Gyro four-pager, a Tony Strobl Scrooge short, and a brand-new Don Rosa Scrooge birthday pin-up, and Uncle Scrooge #373 is a book the miser himself couldn’t afford to miss.
But that’s only half the excitement from Gemstone this week, because Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #688 is here, too. In William Van Horn’s "Winks," with their only clue a mysterious riddle, Donald and the boys go looking for the lost treasure of Duckburg in the dead of winter, because it’s the only time of year when no one has ever looked! Sure enough, the heavy snowfall enables them to discover the riddle’s answer, but it comes with an unexpected price.
Next up we launch a Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse serial with “The Gleam,” a 1942 classic reprinted now for the first time in 25 years. Embellished with beautiful new Sue Daigle-Leach color, the tale tells of Mickey’s travails with the visiting Mousegomeries and with a dangerous, jewel-thieving swami out to shake up Mouseton society. Can Mickey and Detective Casey get to the bottom of the mayhem? What do you think?
Big Bad Wolf steals the show in Carl Buettner’s classic “Red Riding Hoodwinked!” The 1945 adventure tells of Zeke’s attempts to don grandma-gear and reenact the old fairy tale only to be thwarted every step of the way by his Li’l Bad son. Then it’s Pegleg Pete’s turn to be vanquished in Noel Van Horn’s “Stir Crazy!” When Pete traps Mickey in the hold of a boat, then sets out to steal a cargo of expensive designer wristwatches, you just know something’s going to go wrong.
Great new short stories are up next. In Mau Heymans’ “Renewed Feud,” Donald finally convinces Neighbor Jones to move away, but can’t convince himself that the lummox is really gone for good. And in “Who’s Who?” Brer Rabbit pulls another fast one on Brer Bear…or is it the other way around?
Filling out this month’s book is “Joe From Singapore,” a rowdy parrot with a pirate’s temper. He’s blown into Duckburg from a vintage 1946 Carl Barks classic, and Donald won’t soon forget his visit from the terror of the straits.
Gemstone is your source for new and vintage Disney greats. Find them at gemstonecomics.com, amazon.com, and walmart.com.
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