Disney Comic Book December Solicitations
IDW Publishing have released details of their December comic books featuring Disney titles including Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney Stories. There will also be a special Christmas Parade comic book featuring some Christmas themed stories plus more tradeback’s featuring Donald Duck.
Here are all the details:
Mickey & Donald’s Christmas Parade—SPOTLIGHT
Abramo and Giampaolo Barosso, Kirsten De Graaf, Jonathan Gray (w) • Giovan Battista Carpi, Mau Heymans, Marco Mazzarello (a) • Giorgio Cavazzano (c)
It’s a ho-ho-humongous collection of Disney Yuletide tales! Mickey and Uncle Scrooge battle Pegleg Pete and the Beagle Boys in “The Christmas Caper!” Then Daisy, Donald and Gladstone have a not-so-jolly holiday in “Christmas Clubbing”—and Super Goof returns for spacescape shenanigans in “Interstellar Santa!”
FC • 64 pages • $5.99
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Giant Disney Christmas comics are a tradition as old as egg nog! And now Christmas Parade is back—with new-to-the-USA Yuletide yarns by fan favorite creators!
In a treat for nostalgic fans and young Mickey Mouse Clubhouse members, Goofy’s “goober-gulping” secret identity Super Goof returns!
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Daily Newspaper Comics, Vol. 2
Bob Karp (w) • Al Taliaferro (a & c)
From the Disney Vaults! The early Donald Duck daily strips are collected for the first time ever! This second volume includes 750 sequential daily comic strips from 1940 to 1942 drawn by Al Taliaferro and written by Bob Karp, and reproduced from pristine original material in the Disney Vaults!
HC • BW • $39.99 • 272 pages • 11” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-502-0
Donald Duck #8
Massimo Marconi, Jan Kruse (w) • Romano Scarpa, Bas Heymans (a) • Michel Nadorp (c)
Fan favorite Romano Scarpa drags out the Dickens with a futuristic twist—as Donald catches the “Spaced-Out Christmas” spirit! Then Donald celebrates “Counterfeit Christmas” with the Beagle Boys… uh-oh!
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
Donald Duck #8—Subscription Variant
Massimo Marconi, Jan Kruse (w) • Romano Scarpa, Bas Heymans (a) • Daan Jippes (c)
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
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Crossover alert—Uncle Scrooge and the Beagle Boys both guest-star in Donald’s crazy Christmas adventures this month!
Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #375.
40 action-packed pages for only $3.99!
Variant Cover by Fabio Pochet!
Mickey Mouse #7
Abramo and Giampaolo Barosso, Joe Torcivia (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) • Andrea “Casty” Castellan (c)
“The Christmas Tree Crimes”: All over Mouseton, silent nights are disrupted by a most peculiar Phantom Blot attack! Then Pegleg Pete slips Mickey a mickey in “While We Were Waiting!”
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
Mickey Mouse #7—Subscription Variant
Abramo and Giampaolo Barosso, Joe Torcivia (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) • Marco Rota (c)
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
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Legendary European Mickey “Maestro” Romano Scarpa is back with a classic Christmas thriller—entirely new to the USA!
Continues this classic series’ legacy numbering at #316!
40 action-packed pages for only $3.99!
Variant Cover by John Loter!
Uncle Scrooge #9
Tito Faraci, Gary Leach (w) • Giorgio Cavazzano (a) • Giorgio Cavazzano (c)
“Another Christmas on Bear Mountain”: If Scrooge McDuck stepped back in time—to that fateful Yule night when he first met Donald as a grown duck!—might he settle the misdeeds that have haunted them for an age?
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
Uncle Scrooge #9—Subscription Variant
Tito Faraci, Gary Leach (w) • Giorgio Cavazzano (a) • Daniel Branca (c)
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
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Presenting a modern classic—an exciting new sequel to Scrooge McDuck’s famous debut appearance, “Christmas on Bear Mountain!”
Continues this popular series’ legacy numbering at #414!
40 action-packed pages for only $3.99!
Variant Cover by Marco Gervasio!
Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #726
Bruno Sarda, David Gerstein, Jonathan Gray (w) • Massimo De Vita, Mark Kausler (a) • Amy Mebberson (c)
“The Search For the Zodiac Stone—Chapter 6!” Donald hits Hawaii to find the powerful Pisces pendant. But Gladstone Gander might be more powerful still! Then Oswald the Lucky Rabbit celebrates Christmas at Ortensia’s… but everything goes wrong “Just Like Magic!”
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #726—Subscription Variant
Bruno Sarda, David Gerstein, Jonathan Gray (w) • Massimo De Vita, Mark Kausler (a) • John Loter (c)
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
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By popular demand—Disney’s first star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, hops back in the spotlight with his first-ever Comics and Stories adventure!
Disney’s most long-lived, celebrated monthly title is back! Discover Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories again for the first time!
40 action-packed pages for only $3.99!
Variant Cover by Dave Alvarez!
Donald Duck: The Diabolical Duck Avenger
Rodolfo Cimino, Guido Martina, Jonathan Gray, Harry Gladstone (w) • Romano Scarpa, Giovan Battista Carpi, Daan Jippes, Harry Gladstone (a) • Marco Rota (c)
Enjoy modern and classic Disney tales such as “The Diabolical Duck Avenger,” “The Perfect Calm,” “Birthday Bugaboo!,” and more by classic creators such as Rodolfo Cimino and Romano Scarpa. Collects issues #4–6.
TPB • FC • $12.99 • 116 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-480-1
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“The artwork is exactly what you would expect from Disney, bringing its iconic characters back to life and supplying us with the types of situations and script we can come to expect in any cartoon rendition.” –ComicBuzz.com
Will you be adding any of these to your collection?