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Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Disney comics are Comic books and Comic strips featuring Walt Disney characters Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The company had its origins as a subsidiary of Another Rainbow, a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran to publish the Carl Barks Library and produce limited edition lithographs of Carl Barks oil paintings of the Disney ducks. Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who Reprints of classic Donald Duck stories by Carl Barks and Mickey Mouse stories by Floyd Gottfredson were the foundation of their output. Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who Arthur Floyd Gottfredson ( May 5, 1905 &mdash July 22, 1986) was an American Cartoonist best known for his defining work Don Rosa, William Van Horn, and Pat Block are among the modern Disney comics artists who got their start at Gladstone. Keno Don Hugo Rosa (often just called Don Rosa) (born June 29, 1951) is a comic book writer and illustrator best known for his stories about Scrooge William Van Horn (born February 15, 1939) has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. Some of the Van Horn stories had scripts by frequent collaborator John Lustig. John Lustig (born January 25, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American comics writer (former Journalist) principally Unlike the previous Disney comic book licensee Western Publishing Gladstone provided credits for the stories. Western Publishing, also known as "Western Printing and Lithographing Co While still distributed on news stands their orientation toward the collectors market was visible in their inclusion of scholarly articles, mostly by associate editor Geoffrey Blum. It also published translations of European Disney comic book stories produced by Egmont, Oberon and Mondadori. Egmont is one of the leading Media industry groups of Scandinavia. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, ( Borsa Italiana: MNDI is the second biggest Publishing company in Italy. These included stories by such famed creators as Romano Scarpa, Marco Rota, Daan Jippes and Freddy Milton. Romano Scarpa (September 27 1927 Venice - April 23 2005 Málaga) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics. Marco Rota (born September 18, 1942) is an Italian Disney comic artist who served as editor-in-chief of Disney Italia from 1974 to 1988 Daan Jippes (birth name Daniel Jan Jippes, born 14 October 1945 in Amsterdam) is a Cartoonist, who has worked with Disney The name references Gladstone Gander. Gladstone Gander is a Walt Disney Fictional character created by comic artist and writer Carl Barks for Western Publishing.

Here is a list of their comic book titles:

Contents

First Generation

Second Generation

During the second run, there was another implosion in 1998, just like the one that Disney Comics had back in 1991. 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. This article is about a comic book For information on the character see Scrooge McDuck. Uncle Scrooge Adventures is a Comic book published by Gladstone Publishing under license from the Walt Disney Company. DuckTales is an American Animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Walt Disney Giant was a forty-eight page bimonthly Disney Comic book published by Gladstone Publishing. This article is about Disney Comics a Publisher of Comic books. This time, only two comics did not get cancelled - Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge - both of which converted to prestige format. Prestige format is a term coined by DC Comics but now in wider use to refer to a Square-bound Comic book with Cardstock covers

Softcover Albums

During the first run Gladstone issued 28 albums and seven giant albums consisting mostly of reprints of stories by Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson. Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who Arthur Floyd Gottfredson ( May 5, 1905 &mdash July 22, 1986) was an American Cartoonist best known for his defining work In 1990 Gladstone was licensed to publish a series of albums reprinting nearly all the Disney duck stories of Carl Barks. Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who

After its license expired in 1998, Gladstone shut down, and there were no more Disney comics in America (except for occasional graphic novels of the movies put out by Dark Horse Comics), until 2003, when Gemstone Publishing gained the publishing rights. Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent American Comic book publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics Gemstone Publishing is a US company that publishes Comic books and collectors' guides

EC Comics reprints

Between 1990 and 1991, Gladstone reprinted some EC Comics titles, in association with EC-fan and publisher Russ Cochran. Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction, These included six issues of The Vault of Horror (August 1990 - June 1991); four issues of Weird Science (September 1990 - March 1991) and two issues of The Haunt of Fear (May/July 1991). 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 Subsequently, Cochran and the EC reprints moved to Diamond Comics-CEO Steven A Geppi's Gemstone Publishers, which naturally reprinted the Gladstone-printed issues as part of their EC reprints. Diamond Comic Distributors Inc (often called Diamond Comics, DCD, or casually Diamond) is the largest Comic book distributor Gemstone Publishing is a US company that publishes Comic books and collectors' guides (Gemstone, whose key editorial staff - John Clark, Gary Leach and Susan Daigle-Leach - previously worked for Gladstone, also subsequently gained the rights to Disney comics, a license formerly held by Gladtstone. )

Further reading

"A Gander at Gladstone" by Roger Ash. Back Issue no. Back Issue Magazine is an on-going publication of TwoMorrows Publishing in Raleigh North Carolina, in the United States. 23 (August 2007) pp. 35-41.

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