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William Van Horn! Fred Milton! Don Rosa-Drawn Dinosaurs!
Uncle Scrooge #347 leads off with “Escape from Forbidden Valley,” a new Don Rosa sequel to a classic Carl Barks epic. In search of Amazonian nutmegs for Scrooge's favorite tea, our ducks approach Forbidden Valley, a lost world of live dinosaurs whom Donald once stampeded. The local Stickaree Indians, whose village the saurs savaged, get even by abandoning Don in the valley... alone! It's up to Scrooge and the boys to save him, and wouldn't you know it: the big rescue is made a little more difficult by a certain profit-making opportunity Scrooge runs across! This feature-length story is graced by a magnificent Don Rosa front cover. The Beagle Boys follow up with “Legal Beagle,” by Pat and Carol McGreal and Maria Nunez. When 176-167 is paroled after a stay in prison, his free brothers imagine he's had plenty of time to think up some exciting new crimes for the gang. What they find instead is that the prison has successfully rehabilitated him! Donald and Scrooge star together in “Don Quiduck de la Mancha,” marking the return of Dutch writer Frank Jonker and artist Bas Heymans to the pages of Gemstone comics. Practicing for a Don Quixote play, Donald overdoses on Cervantes and turns nutty knight for real! Unfortunately, he's got Uncle Scrooge's new safe combination stuck on the point of his lance, and the Beagle Boys are after it! Gyro Gearloose and Fethry Duck star in “Green Thumbs Down,” by fan favorite Lars Jensen. When flakey Fethry quits his job, thinking that his ecological garden can fulfill all of his life's needs, it's up to Gyro to sort things out before the beatnik duck winds up cold as a cucumber. Rounding off the book is “The Scrooge Museum,” by Janet Gilbert and Vicar. When museum curator Amanda Duckfield opens a free exhibit about Scrooge's life, Scrooge demands that everyone pay to enter. Amanda disgustedly obeys -- but spikes the deal by telling the guards that “everyone” includes Scrooge. Hemmed in by his own rules, Scrooge decides it's time to be faster than the fasties... Walt Disney's Comics #662 opens up with “To Well and Back,” a brand-new duck tale by William Van Horn. “Starting right now, the Duck family is going to get in shape,” Donald vows. This means an extended hike on treacherous Razorback Ridge, where the slopes are steep, the winds are strong, and the fir trees are murderous when you land on one from above! “Vacation Brake” is a new Mickey Mouse adventure by Dave Rawson and César Ferioli. On the shores of Massachusetts' Lake Ogowanwaddayadoo, Mickey and Minnie are witness as huge groves of beautiful autumn-colored trees suddenly turn ashen grey, all at once! The search to figure out what's going on lands our friends in trouble with Elk Pit sheriff Pegleg Pete and judge Sylvester Shyster! But how have these famous Mickey enemies become lawmen? And does it have anything to do with the bizarre graying of the trees? What do you think? “It's Music” is a vintage Donald and Fethry classic; created some forty years ago in Burbank by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard, but only now seeing its first American publication. Fethry's latest obsession is collecting folk music, which turns out to mean Donald running a reel-to-reel tape deck while Fethry records the songs of backwoods hillbillies. And that's trouble, when the bumpkin they pick is sociopathic Hard Haid Moe, a recurring Fethry costar whom we're reintroducing now. “Friendly Feuders,” by Paul Hoogma and fan favorite Mau Heymans, brings back Donald's Neighbor Jones for some classic backyard warfare. Mid-battle, Jones and our duck meet a new third neighbor -- a mountain of a man who's an even better feuder. Our duck and dog must join forces to defeat him; but perhaps the truth of this new rivalry isn't exactly what it seems... “Three's a Crowd” is a classic Dutch Big Bad Wolf tale by Wijo Koek and Dick Matena. When Zeke Wolf sets out to base his life on old-fashioned proverbs, Li'l Wolf thinks he may have reformed his wicked ways. It sure seems like it when he catches Fiddler Pig... and then lets him go! But maybe there's more to this than meets the eye. “Catch one pig and be not proud, but two's company, and three's a crowd...” Finally, “Car Wars” brings back fan favorite Gorm Transgaard and great Dane Freddy Milton for a new Donald ten-pager. Entering an anything-goes race, Donald paints his car hot blue and outfits it with an airplane engine and tractor tires. But he's still in for trouble when he meets his rival in the race: Argus McSwine! Gemstone is your source for new and vintage Disney greats. Order our titles online at http://www.gemstonepub.com/disney or http://www.walmart.com. Seek them out at your local comic shop. And if you can't corner a comic shop, don't assume you're the victim of a no-good neighbor's dirty tricks! Just call Diamond Comics' Comic Shop Locator service at 1-888-COMIC-BOOK.
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