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Quote from user: ramapithAt Gladstone II, Bruce Hamilton decided the logo looked unbalanced with "And Stories" in smaller, thinner lettering over on one side??but considered it an affront to tradition to position it anywhere else. So he preferred to simply drop it.
Our higher-ups at Gemstone and Boom simply liked the Hamilton version of the logo and asked us to continue it; I'm not sure if the question of "And Stories" was ever raised.

I've always missed "And Stories," though, and I'm not scared to buck modern tradition and include it.
I always thought the magazine title was "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 10¢" when I was buying it from 1951-1962 (until it changed to 15¢, and then "Now 10¢" and then "Still 10¢").

I've got to vote no on the text stories. The main reason that those existed in the first place was that the publishers needed two pages of text to qualify for magazine postage rates.
I think the new MM logo looks fine, I like that its a little taller and different for a change. MM has pretty much had the same logo since Gladstone I, its time for a change. Speaking of logos, I liked the bold logos that Whitman had in their final years. The Disney Comics era had some great, fun-looking logos as well.

Quote from user: Thomps2525Without those text stories, there is no reason to include "& Stories" as part of the title. To do so is a unnecessary redundant redundancy which is unnecessary, since the "comics" and the "stories" in each issue are now the same thing.
A reader (Lowell Handy, I believe) pointed this out in the Gladstone II era, and IIRC Gladstone officially claimed that this was the reason they decided to drop "& stories" from the title/logo; but David has the inside info, so perhaps Bruce Hamilton's aesthetic judgment was the real reason. It was just "Walt Disney's Comics" from around #602 through the Gemstone and Boom runs.

When the Florida theme park was completed after Walt died, his brother Roy insisted that it be called Walt Disney World. He wanted to honor his brother even though he knew that most people would refer to the park as simply Disney World. Similarly, Walt Disney's Comics & Stories will probably always carry Walt's name. But if, as Debbie says, the name is outdated, then what could it be changed to? Here in the United States, a digest-sized magazine called Disney Adventures was published monthly from 1998 to 2007. Along with the stories and puzzles, each issue had a few pages of comics, including Kid Gravity, DuckTales, A Bug's Life, Jet Pack Pets, The Muppets and even The Simpsons. They also published a few issues of an all-comics magazine called Disney Comics Zone. Disney Adventures might be a good name for a monthly comic.....although I'm afraid it would be confused with the Adventures By Disney travel company. Another possibility is the name that was used for Disney's weekly television series from 1969 to 1979: The Wonderful World Of Disney.

Just to add to the WDC logo discussion:
Gladstone actually dropped "And Stories" from the cover logo all the way back at WDC 519. It came back with 536, when the "Walt Disney's" part of the logo was changed to the "modern" font design. Disney Comics had the full title in their logo (a sentimental favorite of mine, I admit). Gladstone II began with the same logo as WDC 536. "And Stories" was dropped on 600, back on 601, then vanished with 602 and stayed gone through Gemstone and Boom.

Even when the "And Stories" did not appear on the cover, the full title has always been shown in the indicia. Gladstone, Gemstone and Boom all used the same "Walt Disney" lettering that appeared on the covers of the Dell comics in the 1940s-50s but Gemstone and Boom used extremely large letters for the word "Comics." And the "I" had a dot above it even though it was a capital letter!
Would dropping the apostrophe and the "s" and changing the title to Walt Disney Comics be a good idea? I just thought of it. Unfortunately, few of my ideas ever turn out to be good ideas.

That "M" is a capital letter...although I have never understood why a capital "M" is pointy and a small "m" is rounded. And I didn't suggest simply dropping the apostrophe; I suggested dropping the apostrophe and the "s." We have Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney World, so why couldn't the comic be called Walt Disney Comics? Actually, I suppose it could be shortened to just Disney Comics....but the original title has been around since 1940 and changing it might be akin to renaming Superman as "Captain Krypton."