CATALOG RECORD

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #541

Gladstone · Series began 1986 · August 1989

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Dates

Cover date: August 1989
On sale: May 9, 1989
Pages: 52

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #541 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition$1.50 cover

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Newsstand edition$1.50 cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 07148602686008 · shared with another edition
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Canadian price edition1.95 CAD cover

Canadian

Printed cover price 1.95 CAD.

Barcode 07148602686008 · shared with another edition
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Creators

pencils: Walt Kelly, Carl Barks, Paul Murry, Jack Bradbury, Al Hubbard, Sparky Moore, Veve Ristoinks: Walt Kelly, Paul Murry, Carl Barks, Jack Bradbury, Al Hubbard, Larry Mayer, Veve Ristoediting: Alice Nielsen Cobb, Carl Buettner, Chase Craigscript: Carl Barks, Vic Lockman, Don Ferguson, Carl Fallbergletters: Carl Barks, Rome Siemon, Veve Risto, Paul Murrycolors: Susan Daigle-Leach

Stories

Raising Cains · 10 pages
Overbearing Professor Pulpheart Clabberhead dragoons Donald into permissive child-rearing.
Goofy Meets the Reluctant Dragon · 10 pages
Genius Gilbert doesn't believe in his Uncle Goofy's bedtime story about a reluctant dragon and takes Goofy to medieval days of yore to prove that dragons don't exist.
Little Sir Show-Off · 5 pages
Scamp is a whiz at doing tricks in the backyard but, when a trained acrobatic dog needs a break and gets a bragging Scamp to substitute for him, the pup finds it's not so easy to wow 'em under the bright lights.
Dissonant Distancing · 1 pages
Using his unique logic, Pooh discusses the relative distance between himself and Piglet.
The Water War · 8 pages
An army of waterbugs, wearing WWI type helmets and using eye droppers as water cannons, dam the creek bed leading from the reservoir to Junkville in order to force the Junkville bugs out and allow the waterbugs to take over. With too many waterbugs to take head on, Bucky devises a covert plan to restore the rightful flow of water.
The Case of the Hungry Ghost [Chapter Three] · 8 pages
Mickey and Goofy solve the mystery and expose the ghost with some culinary trickery.