Fantagraphics is celebrating 90 years of Mickey Mouse's adventures by assembling the best stories from its 14-volume Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse series, but this time in full color! See Mickey race to a Wild West gold mine with Pegleg Pete, battle the Rhyming Man for an atom-smashing machine, and stop a hypnotist from hexing half of Mouseton. In this spectacular popular edition there are several extrawild, extra-beloved adventure stories in beautiful modern color.
In 1955, Italian Disney artist-writer Romano Scarpa picked up the Mickey mantle from the legendary Floyd Gottfredson. Now Fantagraphics is anthologizing Scarpa's best. Beyond The Blot's Double Mystery, this volume features Mickey on a wild sea adventure in The Eternal Flame of Kalhoa-and Scrooge McDuck facing down his old flame, Brigitta MacBridge, in The Last Balaboo!
Award-winning French cartoonist/Disney animator Régis Loisel presents an amazing brand-new Mickey adventure - set in Mickey's classic 1930s golden age! Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go camping to forget the Great Depr
Mickey Mouse and Uncle Scrooge tackle crafty - and not-so-crafty - crooks in adventures in these comics stories by legendary Italian "Maestro" Romano Scarpa! In "The Man from Altacraz," Mickey tries to reform musical ex-convict J. Cobalt Bloogle - but another master criminal is using both Bloogle and Mickey to get his hands on a priceless treasure! Then, in "The African Queen," Goofy falls in love with Zenobia, ruler of a lost jungle kingdom... and Mickey's troubles are only getting started! When Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson stopped creating new Mickey Mouse adventure serials in 1955, Italian Disney cartoonist Romano Scarpa (1927-2005) picked up the Mickey mantle - telling decades' worth of legendary tales himself! Now Fantagraphics is anthologizing Scarpa's best - and beyond this book's Mickey tales, we're also including Scrooge McDuck versus the Beagle Boys in "Risky Bees-Ness"... the tale of a sting gone wrong!
For Mouse lovers, get the all-Mickey Disney Masters Gift Box Set #1, featuring our first two Mickey Mouse volumes (Mickey Mouse: The Delta Dimension and Mickey Mouse: The Case of the Vanishing Bandit).
When Floyd Gottfredson stopped creating new Mickey Mouse adventures in 1955, Romano Scarpa pick quickly proved himself a worthy successor, spinning out new Mickey action epics, most of which have never been available in English! Now Fantagraphics is translating and anthologizing Scarpa's best! This volume features the title story plus The Bleep-Bleep 15 and The Fabulous Kingdom of Shan-Grilla, two tales making their North American debut!
Seven recolored comics tales starring Mickey, Goofy, and the Gang! • Mickey and Goofy are lost at sea, and they get caught in a pitched battle between buccaneer Pete and sneaky submarine commander Captain Grapple. At stake: the ancient gold of Port Rancid, a pirate stronghold that sank beneath the waves - and is now guarded by a pack of very jealous sea monsters! Then, Mickey and Goofy have their hands full with a host of mystery puzzlers - from canoe-going ghosts in "Legend of Loon Lake" to hi-tech arsonists in "The Phantom Fires" to a piratical parrot in "The Castaways of Whale Bay!"
Mickey Mouse is up against menacing shadows, monster robots, and a dimension of danger in epic comics adventures by modern-day Disney fan favorite Andrea "Casty" Castellan! All of Mouseton is swooning over the odd "Mr. Benevolence," a masked philanthropist who can't stop doing good -or can he? Mickey thinks he's behind the vanishing of the atomic genius Dr. Einmug - and the arrest of Einmug's otherworldly helper, Atomo Bleep-Bleep! But things get strange when the villainous Pegleg Pete turns up where Mickey least expects him: a "Shadow Dimension" in which fiction becomes fact! Walking in the footsteps of Disney giants Floyd Gottfredson and Romano Scarpa, Italian writer/artist Andrea "Casty" Castellan is among today's most inspired and beloved Mickey Mouse comics creators. After many reader requests, Fantagraphics Books is thrilled to present the first Disney Masters volume by the beloved Disney cartoonist Casty! And "Trapped in the Shadow Dimension'' is just the start! Also: in this volume, Scrooge McDuck squares off with "The Terrible, Terrible Triple-Dimensional Beagle Boy''... while in "The World to Come," Mickey and Minnie are headed to far-off Illusitania for royal intrigue, robot war... and a showdown with that dastardly, poetic secret agent, The Rhyming Man!
In this collection of comics stories, Mickey and Goofy are trapped in cold and snow with a monster below! Adventure-seeking Mickey doesn't usually regret being Chief O'Hara's freelance detective - but all bets are off when the Chief pitchforks Mickey and Goofy into saving Cousin Frosty's winter resort from a monster! From snowballs to cliffside falls, deadly accidents have Sawtooth Mountain in an uproar and if a man-eating yeti isn't responsible, who is? And "Sawtooth Mountain" is just the start! Mickey confronts mystical Hawaiian elves in "Pineapple Poachers" and is forced to reform the villainous Pegleg Pete in "Mickey's Strange Mission!" A recreation of the stories' original Dell Comics color is icing on the cake. In the Disney Masters series, Fantagraphics unearths a treasure trove of hitherto untranslated work in the grand Walt Disney tradition, expanding the mythologies of fan favorites Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and bringing to American readers the work of the acclaimed foreign artists who popularized beloved Disney characters in their own countries. Fresh artwork, fresh new adventures and fresh new laughs!.
Mickey and Donald tackle arch-foes and family feuds in new-to-USA adventures by comics maestro Romano Scarpa! From Minnie to Horace to Mortimer Mouse, Mickey's friends and fiends are bewitched by Dr. Wrayspray and his amazing health tonic. But Mickey smells a rat - and the trail leads to Wrayspray's headquarters on Brigaboom, an amazing island that only appears once every five years... where Peg Leg Pete is cooking up a diabolical new racket! Next, it's Donald in deep duck trouble when he's forced to battle an army of AI-controlled evil toys in Remotely Impossible - and his own unhinged cousin in The Unsinkable Kildare Coot! Finally, Goofy's royal love interest returns in The Famed Jumping Frog of Queen Zenobia... with a criminal plot hot on her tail! When Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson stopped creating new Mickey Mouse adventure serials in 1955, Disney pundit Romano Scarpa (1927-2005) - born in Venice, Italy - picked up the Mickey mantel, telling decades' worth of legendary tales himself! In addition to writing Disney comics for 25 years, John Lustig (1953-), born in Seattle, Washington, has written outrageously silly comics for Marvel, Viz, and more. Lustig is best known for his Last Kiss comics, which feature vintage romance art with witty new dialogue.
Who sank Steamboat Willie? Mickey and Peg Leg Pete declare a truce to solve an ancient mystery-but an older enemy hopes they go down with the ship! How did Peg Leg Pete become Mickey's archenemy? Sail into the past aboard that infamous riverboat Steamboat Willie... and see how a standoff between Mickey, Pete, and jewel thief Jeb Fishbone sank the ship - and lost Mouseton's biggest gem in the roaring rapids! Can Mickey and Pete raise Steamboat Willie today? Or will they destroy each other trying? The adventures continue as Donald and Gyro Gearloose battle their brassy new neighbor, one-duck disaster area Boomer Buff, in The Case of the Amazing Brain. And then Mickey is back for round two - and maybe three? - when a Mouse in the Mirror turns real, and Mickey faces off with Ricky Rodent, an evil twin who's also a better detective!
Classic Disney artist Paul Murry and writer Carl Fallberg created a series of Mickey and Goofy serials for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories that every Baby Boomer remembers. Join Mickey on the trail of cops-and-robbers capers - from shady doings at The Last Resort to Black Pete's raucous wrangles with a Rajah in The Lost Legion! Murry's first seven Mickey serials are all here - all newly recolored in the warm colors from the original Dell comic books!
Mickey's uncle wants to bring the tourists back to his fading seaside resort - and Mickey and Goofy think populating the pier with fierce pirate cosplayers is the perfect solution! But when our heroes unwittingly open the floodgates for a real pirate raid by Black Pete and his scurvy crew, it looks like our heroes will be going from plan to plank! Our latest volume in the Disney Masters collection features a swashbuckling series of travels and travails - from cowboy capers at Yesterday Ranch to the fan favorite mystery of The Vanishing Railroad! Seven Mickey serials in all - all newly recolored in the warm colors of the original comic books!
Today everyone knows Mickey Mouse as Disney's cheerful ambassador. But back in the 1930s, Mickey gained fame as a rough-and-tumble, two-fisted epic hero! And Mickey's greatest feats of derring-do were written and drawn by one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th century - Floyd Gottfredson. The premiere volume, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: "Race to Death Valley" features a dozen different adventures starring Mickey, his gal Minnie and her uncle Mortimer (not to be confused with Mickey's rival in the animates shorts!), his pals Horace Horsecollar and Butch, the villainous Pegleg Pete, and the mysterious and shrouded Fox. Relive Mickey's race to a gold mine with Pegleg Pete hot on his heels; Mickey's life on the lam after being framed for bank robbery; even Mickey's ringside battle with a hulking heavyweight champ! Now it's time to rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse.
(W/A) Floyd Gottfredson (E) David Gerstein, Gary Groth Floyd Gottfredson's classic 1930s Mickey Mouse is back for another round. Mickey's vintage Disney bad guys are here too, with arch-enemy Pegleg Pete joined by the mysterious "Bill Shakespeare" and hypnosis-happy Professors Ecks, Doublex, and Triplex. Restored from Disney's original negatives and proof sheets, "Mickey Mouse: Trapped on Treasure Island" also includes more than 50 pages of supplementary features, rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and commentary by Disney historians. Rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse!
Our big-eared hero is back with more edge-of-your-seat adventures from the pen of Floyd Gottfredson. In this volume, you'll saddle up for Gottfredson's two most famous Wild West epics: a "Race for Riches" and "Bat Bandit!" Lovingly restored from Disney's proof sheets, High Noon at Inferno Gulch also contains more than 50 pages of supplementary features including rare behind-the-scenes art and vintage publicity material!
Fantagraphics’ award winning archival series continues with Mickey and Goofy enter a prehistoric lost world teeming with danger. From stampeding brontosaurs to saber-tooth tigers, all of Goofy’s least favorite Stone Age scares are here. Author Floyd Gottfredson produced a cavalcade of rip-roaring tales starring Mickey and Lost in Lands of Long Agois no exception. Also included are several other stories and more than 30 pages of rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a clan of Disney cave bears. As usual, a box set combining this latest volume along with the previous, complete with slipcase, will be available at a bargain price.
Our latest book features Disney's greatest villain, The Phantom Blot, turning Mouseton upside down! Plus Mickey battles Pegleg Pete on the high seas and meets a powerful genie! Restored from Disney's original proof sheets, this volume also includes rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a host of Disney scholars. [(W/A/CA) Floyd Gottfredson]
Fantagraphics’ award winning archival series continues with Mickey and Goofy enter a prehistoric lost world teeming with danger. From stampeding brontosaurs to saber-tooth tigers, all of Goofy’s least favorite Stone Age scares are here. Author Floyd Gottfredson produced a cavalcade of rip-roaring tales starring Mickey and Lost in Lands of Long Agois no exception. Also included are several other stories and more than 30 pages of rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a clan of Disney cave bears.
The award winning series continues. A magic cloak sends Mickey and Minnie into a dystopian future of robots and wicked warlords and it is up to Mickey to end this electronic enemy's reign of terror! In bonus stories, artist Floyd Gottfredson sends Mickey out on a ghost ship and then pits Mickey against creepy chemist Drusilla and her morbid minions! This new eighth volume is also available in a handsome, holiday gift box set with Spring's Vol. 7: March of the Zombies!
The award winning series continues. A magic cloak sends Mickey and Minnie into a dystopian future of robots and wicked warlords and it is up to Mickey to end this electronic enemy's reign of terror! In bonus stories, artist Floyd Gottfredson sends Mickey out on a ghost ship and then pits Mickey against creepy chemist Drusilla and her morbid minions!
This latest volume in Fantagraphics' acclaimed Mickey Mouse series features the time travelling Eega Beeva from the 25th century! Also featured is the evil Rhyming Man, a poetic master spy with an arsenal of chemical weapons. Restored from the original proof sheets, Rise of the Rhyming Man also includes behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by Disney historians! It's high time to rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse.
Mickey's Dangerous Double finds an evil twin Mouse in Mickey's house, alienating his friends and committing crimes in Mickey's name. Also featured: Dry Gulch Goofy, and the Isle of Moola-La. Restored from Disney's original proof sheets, Mickey vs. Mickey also includes more than 20 pages of extras such as behind -the-scenes art, rare publicity material, and commentary by Disney experts!
In this final volume of narrative Mickey strips, Floyd Gottfredson and co-writer Bill Walsh infect Mouseton with the super-hi-tech of the Sputnik era. Restored from Disney's original proof sheets, The Mysterious Dr. X also includes more than 30 pages of top-secret extras! You'll enjoy behind-the-scenes art, Gottfredson's rare Christmas comics, and commentary by Disney's own scientific geniuses!
Fantagraphic's celebratory series of the works of Floyd Gottfredson continues as Mickey battles ghosts and discovers an "Island in the Sky." Lovingly restored from Disney's original negatives and proof sheets, House of the Seven Haunts! also includes more than 50 pages of spooky supplementary features! You'll enjoy rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a haunted houseful of Disney scholars. As usual, a box set combining this latest volume with the previous, complete with slipcase, is available at a bargain price. [(W/A/CA) Floyd Gottfredson]
