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!
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!
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.
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantagraphics Books presents a very special collection of the princess's adventures, all drawn by the grandmaster of Italian Disney comics, Romano Scarpa. Never before available in English Disney's The Return of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a wonderful, engaging treat that will be enjoyed by any Disney fan, young or otherwise, superbly illustrated in the classic Disney style.
She's mystical! She's maniacal! She's Magica De Spell, the saucy sorceress-and she's after Scrooge McDuck's Number One Dime, with mythology's oldest surprise package to help her! Enjoy two new Magica vs. McDuck tales... then stick around for epics pitting Scrooge against deep-woods danger, a menacing mummy... and super spendthrift John D. Rockerduck, foe of all penny-pinchers! Collects issues #7-9.
Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews are off on more adventures in these tales from around the world. When Brigitta MacBridge and Huey, Dewey, and Louie find a centuries-old insect with a built-in Columbus-era treasure map, how can Scrooge McDuck not try to cash in? Then it's Scrooge and John D. Rockerduck vs. the Beagle Boys in The Villainous Vase Case! Collects issues #26-28.
