Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 104
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Issue #104
Published May 1949 by Dell/Gold Key.$6.80
$6.60
Cover by Carl Barks. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Bill Walsh, Dick Moores, Bob Karp, Merrill De Maris, Tony Strobl, Gil Turner, George Waiss, Bill Wright, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 9 #8. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured work by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a classic story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Mickey tries to connect the Phantom Blot to the camera thefts. In a story by Barks, Donald figures out how to raise Uncle Scrooge's sunken yacht by filling it with ping-pong balls. This story has since become the center of various urban legends, a patent case, and even an episode of the Mythbusters TV series. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; Li'l Bad Wolf; Mickey Mouse; Dumbo the Flying Elephant; Easter Eggs; Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
