Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales

[hex]

Looks like IDW plan on publishing yet another series of Sunday pages collected in hardcover books. The first volume of Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales was just added to Amazon, currently scheduled for release in September 2016 (the date might change as it often do).

From the description it sounds like the series is going to collect the "ZT-stories" to use the inducks term. That is Sunday page comics adapted from various Disney movies, both animated and live action.

A lot of these are rarely reprinted and hard to find, and personally I’ve just read a few of them. So I think it’s a great that they finally become available for people interested. On the other hand IDW might be pushing out a bit too much Disney material on the market right now. We also have the Donald Duck daily strip series, the Donald Duck Sunday pages and the Silly Symphonies series under IDW’s "Library of American Comics" line.

[caballero]

Yes, it does seem a bit excessive. Why not publish all four volumes of Silly Symphonies first, before starting this new series? Anyway, if you add up all the ZT stories, you get about 1800 pages, so I expect "Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales" will have about eight volumes.

[clapton]

I would like them to be published after each other so I don't have a million books that I need to find/buy/read/etc. (Actually I don't think you can have TO much of what you like to read but whatever)

I don't know if I'm the only one that feels this way but I would have liked the MM sunday strips and the SS sunday strips to be published together in a newspaper sized book formatted as orignally intended. That said I enjoy both strips just fine seapretly.

[hex]

An interesting podcast about The Library of American Comics was posted a couple of days ago. This episode has information about Walt Disney’s Treasury of Classic Tales including an interview with Michael Barrier who writes the introduction articles for the books.

General information about the Treasury of Classic Tales starts at 5min
Interview with Michael Barrier starts at 15:10

To sum up: They originally planned to do 4 volumes of the Treasury series, as the Disney Archives in Glendale had proofs for enough stories to do the first 4 volumes complete. But after that they only had source material for sporadic stories for the rest of the series. So if they wanted to do the entire series of Sunday pages I guess it would include a lot of work tracking down sources and maybe do restoration work too. But the sales for the first two books was not good enough to continue the series, and volume 3 coming soon will be the last one.

We also got a comment on the Donald Duck series. They just decided to start work on the 5th Donald Duck daily strip book, planned for a March 2019 release. But the books with the Donald Duck Sunday pages are put on hold for now.

[deb]

While it's a shame about the Treasury of Classic Tales, I have to be honest and admit that I haven't been following them. I'm more interested in the animated material, (I really enjoyed the Silly Symphonies and Christmas Classics books) and the Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck titles. I'm glad to see the Donald Duck daily strips continuing (maybe by March of next year I'll have finished reading the third and fourth books!), and hope that eventually we'll see more Sundays, as the two Sunday volumes are probably my favorite Taliaferro collections (although I can see how they'd cost more to produce with the color printing).

[RobbK1]

I'm buying all the Taliaferro Donald books, all Silly Symphonies, and already have all the Gottfredson books. I would like all the Gottfredson day-to-day strips (1955-1975), and all the Manny Gonzalez Sunday strips collected in such books, as well. I bought the book of Disney Christmas stories, as well. I don't care about having the comic strips of Disney's live action films and TV series. I never bought those in comic book form during the 1950s and 1960s. I have the cartoon film stories in comic strip form in their comic book versions, so, I can live without those hardbound volumes.