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Quote from user: Thomps2525In February of 2012, I discovered this site and I made one whole post. This will be my second post...but it's a good one. Today I made my weekly comic buying trip to Legacy Comics in Glendale. One of the employees knows that I am a huge Disney fan. He told me that Disney has officially announced that there will be no Disney comics published under the Marvel imprint. The license to publish Disney comics is now available to any publisher who might be interested.

Now here's the mostest bestest part of the news: In October, a company called Joe Books announced plans to issue a hardcover compilation of the 16 Darkwing Duck comics published by Boom Studios. The book will come out in January 2015. Today I was told that one of the comic shop's customers has obtained a license to publish new comics of the old Disney Afternoon tv shows: Talespin, Darkwing Duck, DuckTales and Chip 'N' Dale's Rescue Rangers. So far, there are plans to publish at least four issues of Darkwing Duck. The store clerk said that all four issues have been storyboarded and the artwork for the first issue has been completed. He didn't think Joe Books would publish the new comics. He said that the customer (whose name he didn't tell me) is starting a new publishing company. An official launch ceremony will take place early in 2015, possibly at the Glendale Public Library.

Now...when are Mickey and Donald and Scrooge ever going to return to comic books in the US?
I hope the classic Disney Comics will be published around the same time as The Disney Afternoon Comics.

Not sure where this would leave IDW with their announced Disney Comics.
For that matter I'm not sure why Disney would purchase Marvel and then have two (maybe three) different companies publish Disney Comics.

Thomps2525 - According to Jano, IDW now has the licensing rights to publish the varying ongoing popular series (i.e. Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, etc.) You can see his post about it here:

http://dcf.outducks.org/viewtopic.php?id=1540

As to why Disney is licensing out Fantagraphics/Joe Books/IDW to publish the series as opposed to having them released through Marvel, my guess is that it has something to do with time and resources. Historically, Disney comics have not been as popular as other mainstays in the Marvel Universe, and I could see Disney thinking, "Well, instead of throwing in our own resources into a collection of series that really only is popular to a small populace in the greater comic book world, let's let other 3rd-party publishers take that chance, and that way we can still make a profit off of them with little risk to ourselves."

This is just a guess, but it seems to be a fairly straightforward business decision. If Disney comics all of a sudden start this huge comic boom and start rising in popularity, I wouldn't be surprised if Disney revokes those licenses and decides to start publishing the comics through Marvel again.

Then again, I think it also has to do with association. People associate Marvel with titles like Spider-Man, X-Men, The Avengers, Captain America, etc. IDW, on the other hand, has their hand in a lot more kid-friendly books, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, Transformers, etc. It just seems to work well to have IDW publish the new Disney comics as well.

Fantagraphics did an amazing job with their Peanuts collection, and so far I've been VERY impressed with their Rosa and Gottfredson collections as well (the Barks collections are good, but I REALLY like the extra background information that the Gottfredson and Rosa books provide). And it seems that Disney has always kept their movie-based comics separate from the main popular series (such as having Marvel and then Disney themselves publish the books back in the 90's). So I'm guessing that's their decision to go with Joe Books? Not sure on that one.

Anyways, this again is all just conjecture based on my research. I could be completely off. After all, Disney/Marvel is taking Star Wars back as opposed to leaving it with Dark Horse, but then again, that could also be due to the Star Wars comics' popularity, and the fact that Marvel originally had the license for Star Wars comics back in the 70's and 80's anyways...

Talk to you later!

JDHJANUS
Josh

Josh, I knew about the upcoming Disney comics from IDW but the so-called "Artist's Editions" books will all be reprints---no new stories. I have the huge Carl Barks Library boxed set and all of the books (so far) that are reprinting Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strips in chronological order. I also have a gigantic collection of Disney comics going back to 1947 (before I was born). And I bought a few of the Fantagraphics reprints of Barks' Donald Duck stories, even though I already have a majority of those stories in comic-book form and I have all of them in the Carl Barks Library.
Some of Barks' stories have been reprinted and re-reprinted and re-re-re printed. (Remember when Whitman was the licensee? Yikes!) I'm hoping that the IDW volumes will include some of the seldom-reprinted tales of Little Hiawatha, Bucky Bug, Scamp, Super Goof, Br'er Rabbit and Chip 'n' Dale. And maybe someday a publisher will even be able to reprint all those 1950s-60s-70s comic-book adaptations of Disney movies. I'm putting that on my Christmas list.

New stories continue to be published in Europe. Why not here? It is my understanding that the IDW books will be monthly...until they run out of stories to reprint. Each volume will come out as a regular book and as a limited-edition Deluxe book which will be signed and numbered and include reprints of original artwork and other goodies such as posters and stickers. And yeah, most of us will go out and buy the new books even though we already own books and comics with those stories. I suppose it's like buying the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album on vinyl...and then on 8-track...and then on cassette...and then on CD...and then on MP3.

I don't know if IDW has access to only the "Fab Five" (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy) or if they will also be reprinting the many backup stories: Little Hiawatha, Lil' Bad Wolf, Beagle Boys, Br'er Rabbit, Scamp, Chip 'n' Dale, Gyro Gearloose, Silly Symphonies et al. When Whitman, Gladstone, Gemstone and Boom reprinted Disney stories, they were almost always from the oeuvre of Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson. (Sometimes I like to use a fancy word such as "oeuvre.") I'd love to see the work of the other artists of the 1940s-50s-60s...and how about all the Disney comics that were part of the Dell Giant series? The Carl Barks stories that appeared in Christmas Parade, Christmas In Disneyland, Summer Fun, Picnic Party, Vacation Parade, Huey Dewey & Louie Back To School and other titles have been reprinted but the other stories have not. If IDW was able to reprint every Disney story, how much would we wind up paying? Maybe I don't want to know.

I hope they don't make them too expensive.