Help identifying / finding a rare story w/ Mickey & Magica

[molochdhalgren]

Hello! New to the boards, and I've got a question which I think the fans here might be able to help me with. I recently came across some screenshots of panels from a story in which Magica de Spell has a magical wooden ram of some sort.

What struck me the most about what I saw was that one panel depicted Mickey along with Scrooge and Donald, and now I'm genuinely intrigued about the content of this story. Not only does Mickey rarely interact with the Ducks in the comics, I don't believe I have ever seen a story before in which he and Magica both appeared.

So now I'd like to know if anybody here can identify this story and tell me who wrote / drew it and where it was published. Here are the screenshots I found to help you out in your search.

[drleevezan]

Apr 23, 2018 3:07:09 GMT molochdhalgren said:

Hello! New to the boards, and I've got a question which I think the fans here might be able to help me with. I recently came across some screenshots of panels from a story in which Magica de Spell has a magical wooden ram of some sort.

What struck me the most about what I saw was that one panel depicted Mickey along with Scrooge and Donald, and now I'm genuinely intrigued about the content of this story. Not only does Mickey rarely interact with the Ducks in the comics, I don't believe I have ever seen a story before in which he and Magica both appeared.

So now I'd like to know if anybody here can identify this story and tell me who wrote / drew it and where it was published. Here are the screenshots I found to help you out in your search.

This is from "Search for the Zodiac Stone", a 12-part story featuring both the Mouse and Duck characters. It was originally published in the Italian "Topolino" magazine, and was recently reprinted by IDW in the American "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories". The scans you have found appear to be from that printing. It was written by Bruno Sarda and drawn by Franco Vallussi and Massimo de Vita.

The story is about the Duckburg / Mouseton cast of characters teaming up to find each of the twelve pieces of the titular Zodiac Stone. You can find out more about the story on INDUCKS.org, just search "Search for the Zodiac Stone" there in the "keywords/title" box. I hope I've helped!

[deb]

It is also available in a hardcover edition collecting all 12 chapters. The Search for the Zodiac Stone seems to be a favorite throughout Europe, although I think it made less of an impression in the US, maybe because it took an entire year's worth of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories issues to read the complete story. It's kind of a cute story (especially if you can read it at your own pace in a collected edition).

[molochdhalgren]

Thank you both immensely for directing me toward this story. The cast of characters in this one looks just fantastic, and I've already ordered a copy of the hardback edition.

This should be a nice flashback to my childhood. I'll admit that my interest in Disney comics has waned somewhat since I was a teenager, but the new DuckTales reboot has brought my love for these characters back to me. (Or rather, I suppose, I've realized that Mickey, Donald, Scrooge, and all their friends and enemies never really went away...)

Up until this point, I had thought that the longest, most ambitious Disney comics adventures ever were Erickson and Cavazzano's World of the Dragonlords (180 pages) and Rosa's Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck (260 pages), but this one (at 360 pages) looks like it's going to top them both. I'm looking forward to this.

[deb]

Two other long Disney serials appeared in the Disney published run of DuckTales: "Scrooge's Quest" written by Marv Wolfman inducks.org/issue.php?c=us/DTSQ+++1#c and "The Gold Odessey" inducks.org/issue.php?c=us/DTGO+++1 although these paperbacks may be harder to track down.