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 From the former publisher ... why am I about to tell you this? I guess because I can. Anyway, when I was a teenager (in the last half of 1950, to be exact), I was a Disney comic book fan and bought Walt Disney's Comics and Stories each month without fail. But I stopped during the seven-month gap when Carl Barks was busy doing other assignments and drew no Donald Duck 10-pagers for issues #118-123. I didn't know why, exactly, I just knew I no longer found the stories funny and thought I'd outgrown them. No one, they say, is more zealous than a convert. Well, l lost interest then and didn't discover the mistake I'd made for a quarter century. Now back, I'd say I may be the biggest reconvert in comic history, when I rediscovered the WDC&S titles I’d been missing, I scooped up all the back issues on the collector's market, became a full-time dealer, and then took the ultimate step of introducing myself to the guys who put them out, Western Publishing and the licensor, Walt Disney Productions. When the former stopped producing them, I worked out a deal with the latter to publish them myself and I put out about 700 during the late 1980s and '90s. Now, in the new 21st century I'm still touting on the Internet what I remember like an old elephant who never forgets. Why? I dunno. I suppose it's because I love 'em, or maybe-it's just because I can. As to album #17, here's a teaser: Geefle Bugs. In the lead story, "Rip Van Donald," our hero thinks he's been asleep for 40 years and wakes up in what he believes to be 1990. Oddly enough, it was almost exactly then that this reprint took place. Who's dreaming? In another story, "Billions to Sneeze At," the vaunted vault -- or money bin -- of Uncle Scrooge appears, along with (finally!) McDuck's top hat!
Reprints WDC&S#112,114,117, 124,125. Hero Trading Card #17: Junior Woodchuck Commander-In-Chief. The Junior Woodchucks are led by whip-cracking scoutmasters, which Barks spoofed by exaggerating the military's fondness for rank.
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