XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #541
Publication Date: August 1989
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #541 of 37 Issues (54 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagGladstone
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
On Sale Date: 05/09/1989
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.95 CAD
$1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes:  
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From6
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (8 total)
Disclose Issue Images
Butterfly-Hunting

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; butterfly
First Line: Now! Every Issue Oversized!
Synopsis: Net wielding Donald and a smug butterfly stare each other down.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v8 #10 (94) published July 1948
was Butterfly-Hunting [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Comics Comments

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comics Comments
Character(s): Donald Duck; Mickey Mouse
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Raising Cains

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Professor Pulpheart Clabberhead
First Line: Git along, Old Paint!
Synopsis: Overbearing Professor Pulpheart Clabberhead dragoons Donald into permissive child-rearing.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v8 #8 (92) published May 1948
was Spoil the Rod [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Originally untitled. Title becomes official with this reprint.
Disclose
Goofy Meets the Reluctant Dragon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Goofy; Gilbert; medieval villagers; Goofy's steed; The Reluctant Dragon; blacksmith
First Line: Really, Uncle Goofy... must you persist in reading bedtime fairy tales to a personage of my intellectual stature?!
Synopsis: Genius Gilbert doesn't believe in his Uncle Goofy's bedtime story about a reluctant dragon and takes Goofy to medieval days of yore to prove that dragons don't exist.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Summer Fun #2 published August 1959
was Goofy Meets the Reluctant Dragon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Writer Lockman adds an interesting twist at story's end, allowing both Goofy (who believes in dragons) and Gilbert (who does not) to be correct.
Disclose
Little Sir Show-Off

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Scamp; other dogs; Dr. Barks; Trixie (acrobatic dog); theatre manager; orchestra members; stagehand; fire fighters; newspaper photographer
First Line: Hey, fellas! Look at me! I can jump through this fork in the tree!
Synopsis: Scamp is a whiz at doing tricks in the backyard but, when a trained acrobatic dog needs a break and gets a bragging Scamp to substitute for him, the pup finds it's not so easy to wow 'em under the bright lights.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Scamp #6 [unnamed variant] published June 1958
was Little Sir Show-Off [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: In what may be a double-joke, the dog act trainer is named "Dr. Barks" - covering the sound a dog makes and a fellow Disney comics creator.

Remade as "Backstage Hero" in Scamp (Western, 1967 Series) #31 (September, 1976).
Disclose
Dissonant Distancing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Winnie-the-Pooh; Piglet
First Line: I have to be going now!
Synopsis: Using his unique logic, Pooh discusses the relative distance between himself and Piglet.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Winnie-the-Pooh Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1984.05.06
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Water War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Bucky Bug; June Bug; waterbug soldiers; junkville airport master; dragon-fly plane; Mister Centipede
First Line: Our gardens are dying, dear, I fear! We've had so little rain this year!
Synopsis: An army of waterbugs, wearing WWI type helmets and using eye droppers as water cannons, dam the creek bed leading from the reservoir to Junkville in order to force the Junkville bugs out and allow the waterbugs to take over. With too many waterbugs to take head on, Bucky devises a covert plan to restore the rightful flow of water.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v4 #9 (45) published June 1944
was The Water War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Originally untitled. Title becomes official with this reprint.

Damming a creek to drive someone out is a sort of staple of westerns and is delightfully odd to see it applied to bugs.
Disclose
The Case of the Hungry Ghost [Chapter Three]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, mystery
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Chief O'Hara; Fingal P. MacFingal; Skragg (MacFingal's butler); Jake
First Line: Hired by Fingal P. MacFingal, the eccentric owner of a transplanted Scottish castle, to investigate the disappearance of food, supposedly stolen by a ghost, Mickey and Goofy escape from a dungeon where they had been trapped...
Synopsis: Mickey and Goofy solve the mystery and expose the ghost with some culinary trickery.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v16 #10 (190) published July 1956
was The Case of the Hungry Ghost [Chapter Three] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 3 of 3.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2025. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.