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by: Floyd Gottfredson, Ted Osborne, Walt Kelly, Hubie Karp, Carl Buettner, Bill Walsh, Carl Barks, Gil Turner, Don R. Christensen, Romano Scarpa, Dick Kinney, Eirik Ildahl, Fred Milton, Daan Jippes, Renato Canini, Earl Duvall, Ted Thwaites, Wilfred Haughton, Al Taliaferro  List Price: $12.99 Amazon.com's Price: $10.39 You Save: $2.60 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741.5 EAN: 9781888472370 Edition: Anniversary ISBN: 1888472375 Label: Gemstone Publishing Manufacturer: Gemstone Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: August 09, 2006 Publisher: Gemstone Publishing Studio: Gemstone Publishing Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Short stories and long adventures marking milestones in Disney Comics history. Join us as we travel from the Mickey Mouse epics of Floyd Gottfredson and Paul Murry to the long Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge adventures of Carl Barks and Don Rosa! Also included are Romano Scarpa's Goofy and Renato Canini's Jose Carioca; Dutch "Donaldism" by Daan Jippes and Mau Heymans; Egmont creators Vicar, Daniel Branca, Byron Erickson, Cesar Ferioli and more! Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Would have given 5Since there is no hardcover addition and this is a cheap destined to break paperback I must give it one star. Please Gemstone and Dark Horse rerelease your titles in hardback. The quality is unacceptable. Please don't buy the product until you see a hardback edition is offered. As for me I"m trying to collect the Gladstone comic books instead. And now I have a real tacky looking magazine holders on my bookcase. Thank-you Gemstone and Dark Horse! Rating:  - Good overall collection of Disney comicsFirst of all, I did not expect the book to be so small...but then I figured it was made to be the size of an actual comic book page, so I was able to live with that. The contents of the book are excellent, and while I would have appreciated more pages dedicated to discussing the history of the Disney comics, the selections, though random, do provide a nice overall essay of all the different characters that became popular in the comic book format. Rating:  - Very uneven collectionPlenty of great comics put together with mediocre ones. Why not more Carl Barks'and Fred Gottfredson's creations ? The more recent titles (with one or two honorable exceptions)are well below Bark's and Godfredson's levels. Rating:  - Gemstone and GladstoneComics were made to sell for 5 or 10 cents, but the modern comic, even full of distracting ads, runs two or three dollars. Gladstone/ Another Rainbow Publishing came up with a great idea. In the '90s they presented Carl Barks' duck comics in graphic novel format, which they called comic albums, for between six and ten dollars. Absolutely great, what? You bet, until in one of a string of bloomers the proprietary Disney Company snatched back the license and made a botched effort at doing ... Read More Rating: - Good sampling of Disney ComicsWith 75 years and probably thousands of stories to choose from, it couldn't have been easy to select the stories that made it into this volume. The folks at Gemstone did an admirable job, though, with a wonderful sampling of rarely reprinted comics from the US and Disney's foreign publishers -- some being reprinted in English for the first time. Most of the legendary Disney comic creators are represented here, from Floyd Gottfredson to William Van Horn to Don Rosa to the immortal Carl Barks. Even Walt ... Read More 
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