Quote from user: Baar Baar JinxQuote from user: Fritz BaughThe change to DDMM was probably to make a last attempt to goose sales with an all new #1. Since DDMM was cancelled after issue 7, it looks like it didn't work.
I don't know ... that somehow doesn't sound like Gladstone.
Fritz is absolutely right. Bruce Hamilton insisted on filling Donald and Mickey with hundreds of pages of 1970s "Goofy History" stories??personal favorites of his??which could only work in a 32-page book if they were broken up and serialized. They were unpopular in this format, leading to poor sales??but Hamilton reacted to failure by defiantly doubling down. He insisted that restarting numbering from #1 would bring sales up again, even if the "Goofy History" stories stayed.
Sales didn't rise, so Hamilton finally relented and did what readers wanted??allowed editor John Clark to run modern, done-in-one Mickey stories in the book instead. But by now it was too late; sales couldn't be jumpstarted again.
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Ramapith
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2015-06-24 at 00:11:53
Baar Baar Jinx
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2015-06-27 at 20:54:49
Quote from user: ramapithBruce Hamilton insisted on filling Donald and Mickey with hundreds of pages of 1970s "Goofy History" stories??personal favorites of his??which could only work in a 32-page book if they were broken up and serialized. They were unpopular in this format, leading to poor sales??but Hamilton reacted to failure by defiantly doubling down. He insisted that restarting numbering from #1 would bring sales up again, even if the "Goofy History" stories stayed.
This was exactly the kind of material that Disney Comics' Goofy Adventures featured prominently, and that title had the dubious distinction of being the only one cancelled even before the implosion. So Gladstone II should have known what was coming when they chose to dip into the same well.
Overall, Gladstone II seemed a somewhat different animal from Gladstone I ... they took greater risks and experimented with more diverse material. For example, although Hamilton apparently loved the Goofy history stories, they never appeared in any Gladstone I title. I guess it was the Disney Comics influence (although that was obviously a flawed venture). The various itinerations of the Mickey and Donald title were where this was most obvious.
This was exactly the kind of material that Disney Comics' Goofy Adventures featured prominently, and that title had the dubious distinction of being the only one cancelled even before the implosion. So Gladstone II should have known what was coming when they chose to dip into the same well.
Overall, Gladstone II seemed a somewhat different animal from Gladstone I ... they took greater risks and experimented with more diverse material. For example, although Hamilton apparently loved the Goofy history stories, they never appeared in any Gladstone I title. I guess it was the Disney Comics influence (although that was obviously a flawed venture). The various itinerations of the Mickey and Donald title were where this was most obvious.
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