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Issue Details

Issue #702
Published May 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney's GOOFY SUCCESS STORY, No. 702." Code number is G.S.S.O.S #702-565. Copyright 1956 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Fifth of fifteen Goofy Four Color issues.

Cover Details - "Goofy Success Story"

Characters Goofy
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Goofy activity "Make-Your-Own Goofy Movies"

Characters Goofy
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks John Liggera
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Describes how to make an animation "flip book" from the panels on the back cover.

32 page Goofy story "The Goofy Success Story"

Characters Goofy; Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Clarabelle Cow (cameo); Black Pete; Pluto (cameo)
Synopsis A framing sequence of Goofy becoming a star is wrapped around "movie" stories named The Moose Hunt, Sheriff Two-Gun, Pirate Waters, and Frigid Frontier.
Genre funny animals
Script Vic Lockman
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks John Liggera
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes One sequence shows Goofy signing a contract as "Dippy Dawg," only to have the studio change his name to Goofy. Dippy Dawg was Goofy's original name in the 1930s cartoons. Another part is a parody of "Person to Person" with live TV cameras showing Goofy's mansion to a network audience. Part of the last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
Reprinted in Goofy Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #4 (September 1990) [-28 pages, reprint title: Captain Goofy and Pirate Pete]

1 page Goofy story "Goofy's Artistic Success Story"

Characters Goofy
Synopsis Goofy drives some nails through the back of a canvas to make his painting of cactus more realistic.
Genre funny animals
Script Vic Lockman
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks John Liggera
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story.

1 page Goofy activity "Make-Your-Own Goofy Movies"

Characters Goofy
Synopsis Goofy jumps off a diving board.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks John Liggera
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Back cover. Twelve numbered panels that are to be cut out and assembled into an animation "flip book." Directions are on the inside front cover.
Reprinted in Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse (Gladstone, 1995 series) #5 (May 1996) [reprint title: Flipping over Goofy]