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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #517

Gladstone · Series began 1986 · April 1987

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Dates

Cover date: April 1987
On sale: January 1987
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #517 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Newsstand edition95¢ cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 07148602686004 · shared with another edition
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Direct edition95¢ cover

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Canadian price edition1.25 CAD cover

Canadian

Printed cover price 1.25 CAD.

Barcode 07148602686004 · shared with another edition
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Creators

pencils: Daan Jippes, Freddy Milton, Dick Moores, Carl Barks, Paul Murry, Frank Smithinks: Daan Jippes, Ben Verhagen, Dick Moores, Carl Barks, Paul Murry, Frank Smithscript: Freddy Milton, Bruce Hamilton, Geoffrey Blum, Chase Craig, Carl Barks, Carl Fallberg, Bob Fostercolors: Steve Falkletters: John Clark, Dick Moores, Garé Barks, Paul Murry

Stories

A Gander at Gladstone · Gladstone Publishing · 1 pages
Uncredited text feature. Topics include additional story and art credits, Gladstone's move to Prescott, AZ, and a cover price increase to 95 cents.
The Great Survival Test · 10 pages
Donald resorts to sneaky tricks in order to sabotage Huey, Dewey, and Louie's Junior Woodchuck survival test.
Th' Butter Business · 6 pages
Brer Rabbit distracts his pursuers, Brer Fox and Brer Bear, with talk of getting into the business of selling butter.
The Cat Box · 4 pages
Jarred by cat yowlings outside his window, Gyro trains his language translator on the tranquility-befouling felines only to find that they are "1950s jive-talking hep cats" engaged in a crooning competition to win the affections of a lady cat. What's a noise-rattled inventor to do... join them?
The Incredible Box Top Plot [Episode I] · 8 pages
While shopping in the supermarket, Goofy finds a cereal box with a box top number 23 that he needs to build on his collection to enter a ship blueprint puzzle contest. Unfortunately, this particular box top is also wanted by Black Pete. After Filch, who is in Black Pete's gang, attempts to steal the cereal box containing the box top number 23 from Goofy, he is arrested and an investigation commences with Mickey and Goofy about to embark on a new adventure.
Ludwig Von Drake - Ludwig Von Drake · 0.2 pages
Ludwig has invented the ultimate duplicating machine.

Reprinted in

Disney Masters (2018)