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Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald and the Seven Ghosts (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 26)

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"Walt Disney's Mickey And Donald: The Seven Ghosts"
(Gladstone Publishing)
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This volume (#26 in Gladstone's early 1990s "comic album" series) features Mickey Mouse working as a detective, solving the mystery of a haunted house, with help from his friend Goofy, and an early version of Donald Duck. The story originally ran as a newspaper strip in the fall of 1936, written and illustrated by the great Mickey artist, Floyd Gottfredson (with color added later by Marie Severin and others). The story is fun and relatively fast-moving, with Mickey in full Raymond Chandler mode, wielding pistols and talking tough. Goofy and Donald are there mostly to provide comic relief -- Donald, whose character was invented only two years earlier, is seen as clumsy and cowardly, while Goofy is brave but often a bit dim. This story is one of the best Mickey Mouse reprints in the Gladstone line... Although the storytelling relies on the four-panel "beats" of a daily strip, it's relatively smooth and not too repetitive. The line art reproduction and new coloring job are superb -- this is about as fine a version of this material as you'll ever see! A second story, "The Case Of The Vanishing Coats" (from 1935) also features Mickey an Donald, although Donald sure looks a lot different than he later appeared... here, his bill is long and flat, and he hunches forward while he walks, much like Groucho Marx. A nice slice of pop culture history, but also a fun story. (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain book reviews - January, 2009)