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Gemstone Publishing is a U.S. company that publishes comic books and collectors' guides. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The company was formed by Diamond Comic Distributors President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen A. Diamond Comic Distributors Inc (often called Diamond Comics, DCD, or casually Diamond) is the largest Comic book distributor Geppi. Gemstone is the current publisher of licensed Disney comic books, starting in June 2003. Disney comics are Comic books and Comic strips featuring Walt Disney characters June 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - The company also reprints EC Comics of the 1950s. Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction, Additionally, the company is the current home of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (or Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide) is widely considered the primary authority on the subject of American Comic [1]

The core of the experienced editorial staff (John Clark, Gary Leach and Susan Daigle-Leach) previously worked at Gladstone Publishing. Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. Archival editor David Gerstein previously worked at Egmont and is author of Nine Lives To Live - A Classic Felix Celebration, a collection of 1920s Felix the Cat comic strips published by Fantagraphics Books. David Gerstein (born 1974) is a Comics author and editor as well as an Animation Historian. Egmont is one of the leading Media industry groups of Scandinavia. Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent-film era Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of Alternative comics, classic Comic strip anthologies Magazines Graphic novels

Name Number of pages Format Status Stories featuring
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 64(68 w/covers) Prestige Active Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Jr. Woodchucks, Goofy, Big Bad Wolf, Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Scamp
Uncle Scrooge 64(68 w/covers) Prestige Active Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, Beagle Boys, Launchpad McQuack, Fethry Duck, Donald Duck
Donald Duck Adventures 128(132 w/covers) Digest Ended Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Duck Avenger
Mickey Mouse Adventures 128(132 w/covers) Digest Ended Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse
Donald Duck and Friends 32(36 w/covers) Standard Ended Donald, Mickey
Mickey Mouse and Friends 32(36 w/covers) Standard Ended Mickey, Donald

Gemstone also issues annual editions of Christmas Parade, Vacation Parade and a giveaway for Free Comic Book Day plus occasional special editions (including comic adaptations of Mickey, Donald and Goofy: The Three Musketeers and Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas). Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (WDC or WDC&S for short is an Anthology Comic book that has an assortment of Disney characters including Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. In Disney 's fictional universe The Junior Woodchucks are the Boy Scouts of America -like youth organization to which Donald Duck 's nephews Huey Dewey Goofy is an Animated cartoon character from Walt Disney 's Mickey Mouse universe. The Big Bad Wolf is a term used to describe a fictional wolf who appears in several precautionary folkloric stories including some of Aesop's Fables and Bucky Bug is a Fictional character, created by The Walt Disney Company. Elvira "Grandma Duck" Coot is a Fictional character who appears in Walt Disney 's various Comic books She is the grandmother of Donald In the 1955 movie Lady and the Tramp, Scamp is the son of the title characters Lady and Tramp, seen only briefly at the end of the movie This article is about a comic book For information on the character see Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a fictional Gyro Gearloose is a Fictional character, an anthropomorphic Chicken created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company. The Beagle Boys are a group of Fictional characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe loosely based on the popular image of Ma Barker and the Barker-Karpis Launchpad McQuack is a character created by the Walt Disney Company who first appeared as Scrooge McDuck 's pilot on DuckTales, and later in the Donald Duck Adventures is a Comic book featuring the adventures of Donald Duck and his nephews Huey Dewey and Louie. Paperinik (also known as Phantomias, Duck Avenger, Superduck, PK, Superdonald and Phantom Duck) is a fictional Mickey Mouse Adventures is a Comic book published by Disney Comics which features Mickey Mouse as the main character Minnie Mouse is an Animated cartoon of the Mickey Mouse universe featured in Animated cartoons Comic strips and Comic book by Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Lists of holidays The words holiday or vacation have related meanings in different English-speaking countries and continents but will usually refer to one of Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American Comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas is a computer-animated Direct-to-video movie on VHS and DVD made by The Walt Disney Its first book Mickey And The Gang: Classic Stories In Verse, a lavish compilation edited by David Gerstein of Disney cartoon story pages published from 1934 to 1944 in Good Housekeeping Magazine, was issued Nov. Good Housekeeping is a women's Magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests product testing by The Good Housekeeping 2005

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Russ Cochran and EC Comics reprints

Gemstone have also been heavily involved in the reprinting of old EC Comics titles. Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction, Gemstone's Comic Book Marketplace-editor Russ Cochran had previously published (in 1973) a dozen reprints of EC titles including Crypt of Terror, Weird Science, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, etc. Weird Science was a science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s The Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror are three bi-monthly horror comic anthology series , before moving to Gladstone Publishing and then to Gemstone, which has been the home of Cochran's EC reprints for over 15 years. Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998.

Reprinting the Cochran/Gladstone-reprints of The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror and Weird Science (all 1992), Gemstone also republished (in single issue and 'annual' - four issues per 'annual' - format):

Oversize, hardback, slip-cased collections of these comics had been previously published in black & white by Cochran during the 1980s as "The Complete EC Library". This Library was then added to by Cochran/Gemstone with 2005's Picto-Fiction collection, comprising the EC comics: Confessions Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, Shock Illustrated and Terror Illustrated, along with "18 previously unseen stories, never published before". Confessions Illustrated was a black-and-white magazine published by EC Comics in early 1956 Crime Illustrated was a black and white magazine published by EC Comics in late 1955 and early 1956 Shock Illustrated was a black and white magazine published by EC Comics from late 1955 to early 1956 Terror Illustrated was a black-and-white Magazine published by EC Comics in late 1955 and early 1956 [1]

Full-color hardbacks

In 2006, Cochran and Gemstone began publication of a series of full-color EC Archives editions. Promising that "[e]ach EC Archive volume will reprint six complete issues (24 stories)"[2], the first volumes of Weird Science and Shock Suspenstories both saw print in December, 2006, with forewords from (respectively) EC fans George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Shock SuspenStories was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s George Walton Lucas Jr (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director, producer, Screenwriter Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (Hon (born December 18 1946 is an American Film director, Screenwriter and producer. Ostensibly beginnig to publish two volumes every two months, the schedule changed to one-per-month and recently one every couple of months.

To date, the published volumes are:

Gemstone's (out-of-date) EC webpage lists future volumes of Weird Science (Vol. George Walton Lucas Jr (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director, producer, Screenwriter Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (Hon (born December 18 1946 is an American Film director, Screenwriter and producer. Paul Levitz (born 21 October 1956) is an American Comic book Writer, Editor and executive Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R L Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an Canadian-American Novelist Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is a prolific American mystery writer who has been called "mystery's Renaissance man " 3) and Tales From the Crypt (Vol. 3) for publication during 2008; Amazon lists initial volumes of Haunt of Fear and Frontline Combat. [3]

In addition, "Deluxe" versions of Weird Science Vol. s 1 & 2 (both signed by artist Al Feldstein), Shock Suspenstories Vol. Albert "Al" B Feldstein (born October 24, 1925) is an American painter of Western wildlife and an influential author-editor who wrote drew and 1 and Tales From the Crypt Vol. 1 have been published.

References

  1. ^ The Book Palace's "Complete EC Library" pages. Accessed 12 March, 2008
  2. ^ EC Comics Online, home of Gemstone's EC pages. Accessed 12 March, 2008
  3. ^ Amazon's "EC Archives" listings. Accessed March 12, 2008

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