Disney Comics
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures
Series I --- Issues 1-20
Why is there a Series I and a Series II for the Gladstone comic books? When our original license expired (Series I), the Walt Disney Company took over publishing the comics themselves, but after three years -- despite help from Gladstone -- Disney threw in the towel and gave the license back, and Series II was born. This is why, when looking at the comics that Disney published and those that Gladstone published, some titles have numerical gaps, time lags or numbers that were repeated. Despite this minor confusion (all of which had an amazing logic!), we feel the Series II books are far superior in printing, color, paper and often in content! Because of problems in the distribution industry, all the standard-sized monthly titles eventually were incorporated into two monthly 64-page, square-bound comics, Uncle Scrooge and Walt Disney's Comics & Stories. Looking back, we feel these are the comic books that reflect the best of Gladstone.
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Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #1 (November 1987)
Gladstone's first issue of Donald Duck Adventures! Front cover by Daan Jippes. Donald Duck and "Isabella," by Oberon and Ben Verhagen; Donald Duck in "Jungle Hi-Jinks" by Carl Barks. Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$5.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #2 (December 1987)
Front Cover by Barks. Donald Duck in "Dangerous Disguise" by Carl Barks. Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #3 (February 1988)
Front Cover by Barks. Donald Duck in "Lost in the Andes" by Carl Barks. Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith. (Extremely low quantity).
$20.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #4 (May 1988)
Front cover by Daan Jippes. Donald Duck in "Frozen Gold" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "An Inside Job," "Escape Goat," and "Jack Be Nimble," by Homer Brightman and Al Taliaferro. Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #5 (July 1988)
Front cover by Daan Jippes. Donald Duck in "Voyage to Moonbase One" by Oberon and Ben Verhagen; Donald Duck in "Rocket Reverie" by Gary Leach and Don Rosa; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Daan Jippes.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #6 (August 1988)
Front cover by Daan Jippes. Donald Duck in "Windmill Whirl" by the Gutenberghus Group; Donald Duck in "Thug Busters" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #7 (September 1988)
Front cover by Daan Jippes. Donald Duck in "Mystery of the Swamp " by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "Tents, Anyone?" by William Van Horn; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #8 (October 1988)
Front cover by Carl Barks. Donald Duck in "The Crocodile Collector" by Don Rosa; Donald Duck in "On Target?" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #9 (November 1988)
Front cover by Mike Royer based on the oil painting by Carl Barks. Donald Duck in "Ghost of the Grotto" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "Taking the Plunge," "Demolition Donkey," and "A Sound Maneuver" by Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #10 (December 1988)
Front cover by Carl Barks. Donald Duck in "Hook and Ladder Duck" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "Heavy Artillery," "Polished Approach," and "Cagey Adversary" by Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro; Donald Duck in "The Ersatz Earl" by the Gutenberghus Group; Donald Duck in "Breakfast Backfire" by Carl Barks.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #11 (February 1989)
Front cover by Daan Jippes. Donald Duck in "Adventure Down Under" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "Armed for Scare," "Clammed Up," and "Hitch Glitch" by Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro; Donald and Daisy in "Backhanded Compliment" by the Gutenberghus Group; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #12 (May 1989)
Giant-Size Issue! Front cover by Don Rosa. Donald Duck in "Return to Plain Awful" by Don Rosa; Donald Duck in "Novel Nailing," "Goo-Goo Gormet," "Bunk Dunked Unc" and "Wave Good-Bye" by Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro; Donald Duck in "Seafood Blues" by the John Lustig and William Van Horn; Donald Duck in "The Hiccupping Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" by Carl Barks.
$5.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #13 (July 1989)
Front cover by Don Rosa. Donald Duck in "The Mountless Mountie" by the Gutenburghus Group; Donald Duck in "No Rest for the Rescued" by Carl Barks.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #14 (August 1989)
A full-length adventure fills this issue with the Barks classic, "The Mummy's Ring". The cover is Barks' 1984 design for the slipcase to set I of the Carl Barks Library.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #15 (September 1989)
Front cover by William Van Horn. Donald Duck in "The Mad Chemist" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "Strange Adventure" by the Gutenberghus Group; Donald Duck in "The Sunken Yacht" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #16 (October 1989)
Front cover by Don Rosa. Donald Duck in full-length adventure "The Magic Hourglass" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #17 (November 1989)
Front cover by William Van Horn. Donald Duck in "Curse of the Lost Empress" by Oberon and Ben Verhagen; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #18 (December 1989)
Front cover by Don Rosa. Donald Duck in "No Such Varmint" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith.
$3.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #19 (February 1990)
Special Double-Sized Issue! Front cover by Michael Nadorp. Donald Duck in "In the Footsteps of Jules Verne" by Oberon , Jan Kruse, Ben Verhagen; Donald Duck in "Dogcatcher Duck" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "Missile Fizzle" by Carl Barks.
$5.00
Gladstone's Donald Duck Adventures #20 (April 1990)
Special Double-Sized Issue! Front cover by Carl Barks. Donald Duck in "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks; Donald Duck in "The Amazon Queen" by John Lustig and William Van Horn;
Donald Duck back cover gag by Bob Foster and Frank Smith. (FINAL ISSUE OF SERIES I) $5.00