IDW Classic Disney Comic Solicitations July 2017

[squeakyboots]

No Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck this month for some reason. Starting this month, there are also DuckTales and Tangled comics from IDW that you will be able to find solicits for in the General Disney section of the forum.


Uncle Scrooge #28
MAY170580
(W) Romano Scarpa, Thad Komorowski (A) Romano Scarpa (CA) John Loter
"The Bodacious Butterfly Trail," Part 2 of 2! A centuries-old bug with a built-in treasure map is leading Scrooge McDuck to fortunes untold-but now the terrible Beagle Boys might be one step ahead!
In Shops: Jul 12, 2017
SRP: $3.99




Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #739
MAY170584
(W) Lars Jensen, David Gerstein (A) Flemming Andersen, Daan Jippes (CA) Massimo Fecchi
"Nest of the Demonbirds!" By popular demand, Donald Duck is yanked back into the Tamers of Nonhuman Threats-just in time for a hideous (and slightly hilarious) battle with feathered, ferocious freaks of nature!
In Shops: Jul 19, 2017
SRP: $5.99


Mickey Mouse: Darkenblot TP
MAY170579
(W) Andrea Castellan, Jonathan Gray, Lorenzo Pastrovicchio (A) Andrea Castellan, Jonathan Gray (A/CA) Lorenzo Pastrovicchio
Mickey Mouse faces off against high-tech horrors in this latest comic book adventure! The future is now! The high-tech city of Avantgarde has a cutting-edge robot police force-but it's just become the Phantom Blot's deadly private army! Can Mickey brave high-tech horrors to stop his old foe? Or will Avantgarde decide Mickey is part of the problem? Omigosh! Collects IDW's Mickey Mouse issues #16-18.
In Shops: Aug 02, 2017
SRP: $12.99

[hex]

Looking at the order forms and codes, it looks like Uncle Scrooge will have the regular 3rd cover variant (MAY170582) and DuckTales #0 does too (MAY170578). But WDC #739 will only have two cover variants this month. Also, even if the pre-release covers have $3.99 on them, the actual listing say $5.99. So it looks like WDC will have an extended page count this month, probably so "Nest of the Demonbirds" can fit in just one issue.

[radef]

From comicscontinuum.com

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #739

48 pages, $5.99.

[fishpillow]

Apr 19, 2017 16:50:46 GMT radef said:

From comicscontinuum.com

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #739

48 pages, $5.99.

I have felt that WDCAS should have had an increased page count since it started alternating with Duck Avenger. As for the missing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, did we lose them for Duck Tales and Tangled??? IDW does seem to be hung up on only 4 Disney titles a month (excluding Holiday specials).

[Fritz]

I dunno...I gotta admit that seeing this solicitations gave me an old familiar nervous knot at the bottom of my stomach. Especially with the new Ducktales...it's an eerie coincidence that right when Boom solicited their Ducktales the entire line started to dry up. Seeing a TNT story in WDC--instead of Donald Duck, where IDW printed the previous three TNT stories--just gives me an itchy "Oh no it's happening again!" feeling.

Or it could just be, again, that IDW doesn't feel the market can handled more than four Disneys a month. So does that mean Tangled and Ducktales will alternate with DD and MM? Or are they again "on hiatus"?

I hope Mr. Gerstein can shed some light on this if he is allowed to, either allaying or confirming our fears.

[fishpillow]

Apr 19, 2017 19:13:18 GMT Fritz said:

I dunno...I gotta admit that seeing this solicitations gave me an old familiar nervous knot at the bottom of my stomach. Especially with the new Ducktales...it's an eerie coincidence that right when Boom solicited their Ducktales the entire line started to dry up. Seeing a TNT story in WDC--instead of Donald Duck, where IDW printed the previous three TNT stories--just gives me an itchy "Oh no it's happening again!" feeling.

Or it could just be, again, that IDW doesn't feel the market can handled more than four Disneys a month. So does that mean Tangled and Ducktales will alternate with DD and MM? Or are they again "on hiatus"?

I hope Mr. Gerstein can shed some light on this if he is allowed to, either allaying or confirming our fears.

I hope Donald and Mickey at least alternate with Duck Tales and Tangled if not fully come back in August. Another thing I'm worried about is no more French Mickey Albums since A Mysterious Melody. Where are Youth of Mickey and Cafe Zombo? Not to mention Amazon has a listing for a Mickey and Donald Holiday Collection (also containing some WDCAS stuff) in July but no solicitation.

Like you I cannot help but worry a bit.

[alexoni97]

Hey everybody, been watching the forum some time now and I am very happy this little "society" of true Disney comics fans exists.

First post on this thread, because, as other members, I am also a bit worried about the future of the IDW disney comics line.

Apparently WDC&S will have 48 pages but will be published every four months, even more depressing news after the apparent lack of MM and DD.

New format—quarterly schedule, 48 pages! From here: www.cbr.com/idw-publishing-solicitations-for-july-2017/

So maybe some other line (Ducktales?) is going to alternate with this one, after Duck Avenger.

[fishpillow]

Apr 19, 2017 20:58:39 GMT alexoni97 said:

Hey everybody, been watching the forum some time now and I am very happy this little "society" of true Disney comics fans exists.

First post on this thread, because, as other memebers, I am also a bit worried about the future of the IDW disney comics line.

Apparently WDC&S will have 48 pages but will be published every four months, even mpre depressing news after the apparent lack of MM and DD.

New format—quarterly schedule, 48 pages! From here: www.cbr.com/idw-publishing-solicitations-for-july-2017/

So maybe some other line (Ducktales?) is going to alternate with this one, after Duck Avenger.

This just keeps getting worse and worse! I wish IDW would say something.

EDIT: I bet I just figured out what they are doing. WDC&S, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are all quarterly. Uncle Scrooge and Duck Avenger will alternate. That scenario along with Duck Tales and Tangled give them the four books a month still. Mickey and Donald will likely go 48 pages as well.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Apr 19, 2017 20:23:49 GMT fishpillow said:

This is mostly irrelevant, but what you call 'Youth of Mickey' would probably be called The Life and Times of Mickey Mouse, since the French title La Jeunesse de Mickey is clearly meant to be a play on La Jeunesse de Picsou, our title for Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck — the allusion is made all the clearer by the book's cover looking just like our Don Rosa Library's L&T tomes.

[fishpillow]

Apr 19, 2017 21:51:18 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Apr 19, 2017 20:23:49 GMT fishpillow said:

This is mostly irrelevant, but what you call 'Youth of Mickey' would probably be called The Life and Times of Mickey Mouse, since the French title La Jeunesse de Mickey is clearly meant to be a play on La Jeunesse de Picsou, our title for Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck — the allusion is made all the clearer by the book's cover looking just like our Don Rosa Library's L&T tomes.

I bet you are right. I think I read an article about it and the author said that was a rough translation. Not knowing the background of the title I just assumed. Either way I hope we see it in English someday.

[mcquack]

Apr 19, 2017 20:58:39 GMT alexoni97 said:

Hey everybody, been watching the forum some time now and I am very happy this little "society" of true Disney comics fans exists.

First post on this thread, because, as other members, I am also a bit worried about the future of the IDW disney comics line.

Apparently WDC&S will have 48 pages but will be published every four months, even more depressing news after the apparent lack of MM and DD.

New format—quarterly schedule, 48 pages! From here: www.cbr.com/idw-publishing-solicitations-for-july-2017/

So maybe some other line (Ducktales?) is going to alternate with this one, after Duck Avenger.

If IDW is going the quarterly route then I wish they would just pump up the page count to 64 pages or more and raise the price accordingly.  Maybe even going back to the old square-bound prestige format of the Gladstone and Gemstone days.  Apparently only the Disney 'hard-cores' are purchasing this book anyway.  Hopefully IDW will have better luck attracting the younger crowd with the new DuckTales and Tangled books.

[demiscy]

Hidden inside the solicitation is this:

TV series DUCKTALES greenlit for Season 2 !

[caballero]

No William Van Horn.

[Huwey]

Apr 19, 2017 21:51:18 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

This is mostly irrelevant, but what you call 'Youth of Mickey' would probably be called The Life and Times of Mickey Mouse, since the French title La Jeunesse de Mickey is clearly meant to be a play on La Jeunesse de Picsou, our title for Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck — the allusion is made all the clearer by the book's cover looking just like our Don Rosa Library's L&T tomes.

I won't say, it is clearly, there're other comics in french with "La jeunesse de" e. g. Blueberry.

[thadwell]

Duck Avenger #5 will be the last issue, for now. There are other major forthcoming changes to the publication schedule and lineup, but classic Disney comics at IDW are not going away.