Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #665

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

by William Van Horn, Don Rosa, Donald D. Markstein

Short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Big Bad Wolf, Scamp, and other Disney characters. In William Van Horn's "A Fluid Situation," Donald deals with an annoying leaky faucet by turning self-declared plumber... a decision he lives to regret In Donald D Markstein's "Easy Work," when Mickey sees construction work being done with giant robots, he signs on to give it a shot - and ends up in frenzied competition with rival robot wrangler Sam Simian. Next it's Carl Buettner's "Moving Day" in the woods when Big Bad Wolf buys the deed to the Three Little Pigs' home. From WDC&S #58 July 1945. Dick Moores "Robert the Robot" meets Donald and the boys when they visit their inventor cousin Marmaduke. From Donald Duck #28 March 1953. Scamp, son of Lady and the Tramp, returns to WDC&S with the all-new Lars Jensen's "Just Like Pop" in which a rascally dog named Pepper claims he can teach Scamp to be an adventurer like his father. Floyd Gottfredson's "The Picnic" is a short adventure that takes Mickey, Minnie, and the enormous dog Tiny to the deep woods for some deep trouble. From KFS 1/5/31 - 1/10/31. The book is rounded out by the conclusion of Don Rosa's "The Magnificent Seven Minus Four Caballeros," where Donald, Jose Carioca and Panchito are in search of a lost city and jewel mine in Brazil's Roncador Mountains.

64 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2006

About the author

William Roger Van Horn (born February 15, 1939) is an American cartoonist.
Van Horn debuted professionally in his forties with the black-and-white comic book Nervous Rex (1985-1987). A huge fan of Carl Barks, from 1988 Van Horn became a Disney comics artist and writer, producing for decades Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories (occasionally with scripts by John Lusting), primarily for the northern European market.
His son Noel Van Horn has worked extensively as a Disney cartoonist as well.