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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #12 / 456
Publication Date: September 1978
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Issues: #12 / 456 of 257 Issues (332 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Gold Key
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 38
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0335009001109
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Golf Ball in the Side Pocket

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: The boys play their own style of "miniature golf" on Donald's pool table.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Lost Frontier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Captain Gadabout; mesa-dwelling cavemen
First Line: Look out, Captain Gadabout! That snowman will get you!
Synopsis: On a remote high mesa, Donald and the nephews discover cavemen.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #6 (246) published March 1961
was Lost Frontier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Conscience Mission

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: Wh-who's there so early in the morning?
Synopsis: Li'l Wolf appeals to Jiminy Cricket to be a conscience to his big, bad pop! It works, but only to a small and unexpected degree.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTopolino #1197 published November 1978
as Lupetto e l'operazione coscienza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #28/1979 published July 1979
as Samvittighetssak [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Figaro's Deal

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Minnie Mouse; Clarabelle Cow; Grandma Duck; Mickey Mouse; Figaro; seven other cats
First Line: "You should see how nicely my garden is growing," said Minnie Mouse proudly.
Synopsis: Minnie makes a deal with her pet cat Figaro that, if the cat keeps Minnie's strawberries safe from birds until her garden party, she will supply Figaro with plenty of cream. Figaro enlists the help of seven more cats to assist, forcing Minnie to come up with more payment-cream than she expected.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #6 (246) published March 1961
was Figaro's Deal [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mickey Mouse and the Last Minute Mutiny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): mayor; contest judge; Black Pete; Matey
First Line: And I hereby take possession in thuh name of Their Royal Highnesses, Thuh King and Queen of...
Synopsis: Goofy hopes to win first prize of fifteen hundred dollars in a contest where homemade ships recreate the landing of Spanish explorers 500 years ago. Black Pete and his henchman, Matey, try to cheat their way to a win with a live cannon and a hidden outboard motor.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Mickey Mouse #67 published August 1959
was Mickey Mouse and the Last Minute Mutiny [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: As Black Pete's crimes go, cheating to win $1,500 in a sailing contest is not huge but, keeping in character, he *did* fire a live cannon at Goofy and Mickey's ship.

As was Disney and/or Western's practice at the time, Black Pete is renamed simply "Pete", with Paul Murry's original lettering modified to accommodate the change in several places.

In the original printing, Pete entered the contest under the name of "Sir Peter Black". In this edited reprint, his alias was just "Sir Peter".
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Popeye's Back!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics; Popeye
Character(s): Popeye; Brutus
First Line: And Gold Key's got him!
Synopsis: Popeye smacks Brutus to celebrate the Sailor Man's return to Gold Key Comics.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The Popeye comic book series returns to Western Publishing's Gold Key and Whitman Comics, from a long stint at Charlton, with issue #139 cover-dated May 1978. https://www.comics.org/issue/227786/

While all new material for this title would be drawn by George Wildman (who also drew most of the previous series for Charlton), this ad features a repurposed illustration of Popeye and Brutus by classic Popeye comic book and comic strip artist Bud Sagendorf.
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Small Fry Flyers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: Ouch! I tailgated by airplane!
Synopsis: Chip and Dale take a joy ride in a rubber-band wind-up model plane, only to find they can't steer it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #26/1979 published June 1979
as Små flygere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Only two of Donald Duck's three nephews appear in this story - Louie (red cap) and Dewey (blue cap).

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