Trick or Treat

[Jon Cooke]

I read Carl Barks' comic adaptation of "Trick or Treat" for the first time this evening and thought it was great. It was really funny! I didn't expect to even see Barks use the song lyrics from the cartoon in it. I recommend tracking it down (didn't Gemstone republish it recently?). The version I read was in the old Gladstone Comic Album.

[David Gerstein]

Hey Jon,

Our recent edition was last Halloween's issue of Donald Duck (http://www.gemstonepub.com/disney/backissue.asp?ItemNo=36580).
"What's the derby hat for, Hazel?"
"Style, boys— style!"

[Matt Zimmer]

I really like that story. I think the thing I really like best about it is that it's so cinematic and actually FEELS like a moving cartoon. Most of Barks stories are so perfectly suited for the comic book format but the way this one is drawn makes it seem like an actual movie which is good because it was based on one.

[Dub]

This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask - have there been any other adaptations of the classic Mickey/Donald/Goofy cartoon shorts to comic books (and by that I mean anything BEFORE Mickey and The Beanstalk)?

There's Carl Barks' "Trick or Treat" and Floyd Gottfredson's "Brave Little Tailor" (I'm pretty positive there are two other Gottfredson Mickey adapted shorts but my mind is blank right now). It seems odd to me that there aren't any more, especially on the Donald Duck front.

Second question - what is the extent of Jack Hannah's Donald Duck comic book work? During the Disney comics run I was really surprised to find out that he'd done even a few Donald comic stories, albeit small ones. I was wondering if there were any more and if they were any good.

[Robert Hutching]

This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask - have there been any other adaptations of the classic Mickey/Donald/Goofy cartoon shorts to comic books (and by that I mean anything BEFORE Mickey and The Beanstalk)?

There's Carl Barks' "Trick or Treat" and Floyd Gottfredson's "Brave Little Tailor" (I'm pretty positive there are two other Gottfredson Mickey adapted shorts but my mind is blank right now). It seems odd to me that there aren't any more, especially on the Donald Duck front.

Second question - what is the extent of Jack Hannah's Donald Duck comic book work? During the Disney comics run I was really surprised to find out that he'd done even a few Donald comic stories, albeit small ones. I was wondering if there were any more and if they were any good.

Dub, I'm not sure about pre-Mickey and the Beanstalk adaptations. Barks's and Hannah's "Pirate Gold" was based off a shelved movie project, as was Gottfredson's "Mickey and the Seven Ghosts" (I believe). Both, if you are unfamiliar, were reprinted early in Gladstone's first run. For questions on Hannah's involvement, check out the following link:

http://coa.inducks.org/

If you don't know it, it's a pretty amazing resource. Most of those haven't yet made it into my collection, so I can't tell you if they're any good; what I have read, though, I liked.

[Jon Cooke]

There's Carl Barks' "Trick or Treat" and Floyd Gottfredson's "Brave Little Tailor" (I'm pretty positive there are two other Gottfredson Mickey adapted shorts but my mind is blank right now). It seems odd to me that there aren't any more, especially on the Donald Duck front.

I know some Donald/Chip & Dale shorts were adapted for comics. I can only think of "Up a Tree" and "Toy Tinkers" off the top of my head. The comic adaptions had different titles, though. I am sure David G. can name some more.

[Duck Dodgers]

Many shorts were adapted in one-page( !) stories on comicbooks.

I remember a "No Sail" story made by Taliaferro for a comicbook.

Taliaferro himself made some sort of continuities inspired by "Polar Trappers" ( without Goofy but Bolivar the dog instead), "Donald' Golf Game", "Donald' Cousin Gus" and a few more.

[Dell Comics Fan]

I read Carl Barks' comic adaptation of "Trick or Treat" for the first time this evening and thought it was great. It was really funny! I didn't expect to even see Barks use the song lyrics from the cartoon in it. I recommend tracking it down (didn't Gemstone republish it recently?). The version I read was in the old Gladstone Comic Album.

"Trick or Treat" was also reprinted in Gold Key's WALT DISNEY COMICS DIGEST
#16. That's the version that I managed to track down.

:donald:

[rodney]

The Gladstone/Gemstone versions of Trick or Treat contain additional pages (6?) that were edited by Western originally. They've reprinted it a few times, so it should be pretty easy to track down.