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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published March 1990
Cover Price 1.95 USD
Pages 68
Editing Byron Erickson (editor-in-chief); Leonard Clark [John Clark] (assistant editor); Geoffrey Blum (associate editor); Gary Leach (art director)

Cover Details - "1 deluxe santa suit"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Russell Schroeder
Inks Russell Schroeder

1 page Double Talk letters page

Letters typeset

14 page Mickey Mouse and Goofy story "The Disappearing Boulder Bandits [The Iron Horse to Lonesome Gulch]"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Mr. Clinker; Black Pete; Scuttle
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Fallberg
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Letters Paul Murry
Notes The Disappearing Boulder Bandits is Carl Fallberg's title. Referred to as The Iron Horse to Lonesome Gulch in the original issue.
Reprinted from Christmas in Disneyland (Dell, 1957 series) #1 (December 1957)

18 page Donald Duck story "The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Reprinted from Christmas in Disneyland (Dell, 1957 series) #1 (December 1957)

2 page Mickey Mouse story "Mickey had it on ice"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Floyd Gottfredson
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Kathy Beard
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Mickey Mouse Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.12.12

1 page Donald Duck story "Save the window"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Colors Kathy Beard
Letters Paul Murry
Reprinted from Donald Duck (Dell, 1952 series) #43 (September 1955)

Half page Mickey and Donald [The Gladstone That Never Was] cover reprint (on interior page) "horse suit for Halloween"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Russell Schroeder
Inks Russell Schroeder
Notes Cover originally scheduled for a never-published Halloween issue of Mickey and Donald.

Half page Mickey Mouse [The Gladstone That Never Was] cover reprint (on interior page) "Pluto's bones in garden"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Pluto
Genre funny animals
Pencils Daan Jippes
Inks Daan Jippes
Notes Cover originally scheduled for the never-published Mickey Mouse Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #6.

Half page Mickey Mouse [The Gladstone That Never Was] cover reprint (on interior page) "Mickey and Minnie dance"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse
Genre funny animals
Pencils Daan Jippes
Inks Daan Jippes
Notes Cover originally scheduled for the never-published Mickey Mouse Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #7.

2 page Donald Duck story "Call Off the Wild"

Characters Donald Duck; Junior Woodchucks (Huey, Dewey and Louie)
Genre funny animals
Script John Lustig
Pencils William Van Horn
Inks William Van Horn
Colors William Van Horn
Letters William Van Horn
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1998 series) #2 (July 1998)

11 page Mickey Mouse story "The Riddle of the Red Hat"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Clarabelle Cow; Goofy; Black Pete; Mr. Whoosit
Genre funny animals
Script Eleanor Packer
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Susan Daigle
Letters Carl Barks
Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #79 (August 1945)

7 page Donald Duck story "Give Unto Others"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Daisy Duck; Gladstone Gander
Genre funny animals
Script Arno Buitink; Byron Erickson (US script)
Pencils Don Rosa
Inks Don Rosa
Colors Susan Daigle
Notes Jan Kruse incorrect writer credit.
Reprinted from Oberon (NL)

1 page Cross Talk promo (ad from the publisher) "This month we welcome Don Rosa back ..."

Script Geoffrey Blum
Letters typeset