Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #344: Vol. 29 No. 8

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #344 Vol. 29 No. 8 Gold Key 10011-905 May copyright 1969 Walt Disney Productions Publication Year 1969 Type Comic Book Tradition US Comics Cover price $0.15. Paperback - full color 6.9 x 10/1 inches, 36 pages Has Donald Duck in an untitled issue by Carl Barks Scamp in "Tricky Tracker," April, May and June in "The Not-So-Magic Mirror," and Mickey Mouse and Goofy in part three of "The Secret of Shipnappers' Cove." Issue also has Gold Key Comics Club News features and a one-page text feature "Daring Sky Rider." ------------------------------------ Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, sometimes abbreviated WDC&S, is an American anthology comic book series featuring characters from The Walt Disney Company's films and shorts, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Li'l Bad Wolf, Scamp, Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Brer Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and others. With more than 700 issues, Walt Disney's Comics & Stories is the longest-running Disney comic book in the United States, making it the flagship title, and is one of the best-selling comic books of all time. The books were originally published by Dell Comics (1940–1962), and there have been many revivals over the years, continuing the same legacy numbering. The revivals have been published by Gold Key Comics (1962–1984), Gladstone Publishing (1986–1990), Disney Comics (1990–1993), back to Gladstone Publishing (1993–1999), Gemstone Publishing (2003–2008), Boom! Studios (2009–2011) and IDW Publishing (2015–2020). While the issues are now referred to with sequential numbers, the format for the first ten years of the comic was to use the volume and number. Each volume contained 12 issues thus issue No. 13 (October 1941) was labeled "Vol. 2 No. 1" and included several stories about superstitions, especially about the number 13. The title started using whole numbers with issue No. 124, in January 1951.