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I enjoyed the "favorite cover" thread so I thought I'd start a "favorite story" thread. What is your favorite story?
It's a tough question for me, there are so many good ones that I love. But I think my all-time favorite Duck story is still Marco Rota's "Money Ocean," which I read back in Uncle Scrooge numbers 266 and 267. I don't know if it's considered a classic or not, but I thought it was brilliant. I still have the issues and re-read the story every couple of years. I love the art and the mood, and something about the image of a storm-tossed boat in a monstrously huge bin is very appealing to me.
As for Mickey, I really enjoyed the "Perils of Mickey" (aka Return to Blaggard Castle) two-parter from the now defunct Disney Adventures magazine. It was great to see a modern version of the classic Mickey artwork and to revisit those characters. I lost my issues of the magazine, so I miss the story in that I don't have it any more and thus I am all the more fond of it. I hope it gets reprinted some day.

We already have a favourite story thread. But, maybe that was just a "favourite Carl Barks story thread". I'd be curious to see how many people have an all-time favourite Disney Comics story that was written and drawn by someone other than Barks.
I'd guess that my top 50 or so would be by Barks, and then Gottfredson-drawn stories from the late 1930s and early 1940s. I'd say that my favourite non-Barks story is "Mickey Outwits The Phantom Blot" (essentially Mickey Mouse #1).

I think my favorite non-Barks/Rosa Duck story was Marco Rota's "Night of the Saracen." I'm a little biased because I got to color the U.S. version (hee hee) but it was a very good read.
Link: http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TP++++9-1

Here's a few that I've thought of right off the bat.

Long stories:

MM "Joins the Foreign Legion" (Gottfredson) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=YM+030
MM "Monarch of Medioka" (Gottfredson) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=YM+034
DD "Voodoo Hoodoo" (Barks) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++238-02
US "Only a Poor Old Man" (Barks) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++386-02
MM "In the Delta Dimension" (Scarpa) http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL++206-AP
US "His Majesty McDuck" (Rosa) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=AR+145
DD/GY "The Isle of Can't-Be-Can" (Figus/Cavazzano) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2118-1
MM "Fatal Distraction" (Erickson/Fecchi) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D%2FD+2003-029

Short stories:

BBW untitled in WDC&S 104 (Turner) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+104-03
DD "The Goldilocks Gambit" (Barks) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+110-02
DD "The Trouble with Dimes" (Barks) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+130-02
FE "20,000 Leaks Under the Sea" (Kinney/Hubbard) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=S+65024
BBW "A Christmas Carol" (Matena) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=H+77w08
DD "Sauce For the Duck" (Milton/Jippes) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=H+80011
DD "Crimebustin' Donald" (Gilbert/Vicar) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+95029
PE "No Good Deed" (Jensen/Rota) http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D%2FD+2004-040

On a different day, my list might change a lot. There are many famous Italian stories I'm aware are great, but only possess in foreign editions I haven't had time to work my way through (yet!).
And I'm not the best guy to judge stories I edited myself, so I've left those off completely. But I think the writers I worked with at Egmont came up with a couple of all-time classics.

These are excellent stories from Topolino. It's more or less WD Italy's take on Scrooge's Life and Times :) My favorite so far:
http://coa.inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Tutti+i+milioni+di+Paperone

And this ones are not exactly a favorite, but I think it's great: MM's Shambor stories

Roger, how do you like Mythos Island compared to World of Dragonlords?

My favourite stories are the long Donald Duck adventures Carl Barks made in the late fourtees and early fifties. I cannot decide for one special one, however.
More interesting than such conventional Barksocentric favouring and best-finding is maybe indeed the question for the favorite non-Barks Disney comic story. Thinking of the material masses, it would not be easy to come to a final decison here, also, but I guess my favourite would be an Italian story, one of the great stories of Scarpa or Cavazzano. (I also have a strong affection to those historic or literaric long stories drawn by Carpi, for instance "Messer Papero" with Donald and Scrooge acting in Dante's medieval Italy.)
A story or better a complex of stories I like very much also are those four works written and drawn by Massimo De Vita where Mickey and Goofy (!) are thrown into in a parallel dimension that is designed after Germanic mythology (Inducks). The most impressive and atmospheric story of the genre "phantasy" I've seen in the Disney comics.
http://www.ltb-online.de/bild210.jpg

My single top most favorite story?
I don't know; I'm not sure ic an pick only one.

Among my favorite ones, here are two, both published in Mickey Parade # 25 (January 1982) and based on literary works:

"Paperiade" ("La Bataille des Héros"), by Guido Martina & Luciano Bottaro (January, 1959) (I TL 202-AP)

"Paperino e l'oro di Reno ovvero L'anello dei nani lunghi" ("Donald au Pays des Nains-Longs"), by Guido Martina & Pier Lorenzo De Vita (May, 1959) (I TL 210-AP)