This was one of those Not Very Many Comic Books Came Out This Week weeks. I was more than happy to see issue #3 of The Lost City Explorers, which I am enjoying mightily. And I was happy to see Cave Carson Has an Intergalactic Eye #6...until I saw that it was the last issue of the title, which I had thought was an ongoing. But that was it...and it wasn't enough. So I went through the racks again, just to make sure I hadn't missed anything. Nope. Then I took a look at some For Sale back issues, some used trades. Nope. Ah, the Kiddie Comics! Looked...and there was one copy of issue #742 of Walt Disney's Comics &Stories. I am not averse to buying Disney Comics...especially not one so long in the tooth. (In fact, this title is one of the long toothiest of them all...and has the unique characteristic of maintaining continuous numbering over the course of 78 years of publication via 8 different companies. 1 ) It looked good, too: kinda pricey at $5.99, but big enough (54 pages) to justify it, and some high quality production values as well. And the lead / cover story looked interesting: "Fire Eye of Atlantis," Part 2 of 2. I put it in my (small) pile and--waitaminute. Part 2 of 2? I went looking through back issues...no sign of #741. Sigh. I put it back on the kiddie racks...after taking a picture of it to remind me to have a look for it on Comixology.
And when I did, I had two surprises: (1) they had issue #741 for $1.99 (and 46 pages)...and with my Comixology Unlimited membership that drops another 20¢ (hey, I'll take it)...and (2) they had issue #742 for $2.99 $2.69. Whaaaaaat?
Have I mentioned that I love Comixology?
Got to go read some Mickey & Goofy adventures now. BTW, it's a first U.S. publication of an Italian story. I'll let you know how it goes.
1 In case you have to know, it goes like this:
1. Dell Comics (1940–1962) #1–263
2. Gold Key Comics (1962–1984) #264–510 (#474–510 under the "Whitman" name)
3. Gladstone Publishing (1986–1990) #511–547
4. Disney Comics (1990–1993) #548–585
5. Gladstone Publishing (1993–1999) #586–633
6. Gemstone Publishing (June 2003 – November 2008) #634–698
7. Boom Kids! (Boom! Studios) (September 2009 – June 2011) #699–720
8. IDW Publishing (July 2015–) #721- #742 (as of this writing) 2
2 Hey...I just did some math. 742 issues, 78 years...that comes to an average of about 9 1/2 issues per year, which says (to me, anyway), that despite all of the publisher shifts, this title has been pretty much in continuous production for 78 years. Yowza. That some impressive run.
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