I just came across this on INDUCKS. In these comics, published in 1966, Mickey and Goofy are super spies among real humans. Paul Murry and Dan Spiegle (an artist at Western who did comic adaptions of live-action movies) collaborated on the artwork, which just looks great.
Basically, imagine Dangerous Disguise, but with Murry. Reminds me a bit of DoubleDuck too, which is even better. My mind is blown, I find this just about the greatest thing ever and I can't understand why they pulled the plug after only 3 issues.
Oh, if Disney comics ever return to the States... you know the jingle.
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Dutch Duckfan Down Under
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2013-05-01 at 13:13:41
Stavner
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2013-05-01 at 16:30:35
Brian Bolland would be a great guy for this series, or to redraw the originals.
Charlie Brown
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2013-05-01 at 17:55:06
These are nice stories. I have only one in Mickey Mouse Digest #2 with a very poor print quality. I would love to see this series in print again.
Let's hope Disney comics will be back soon in the US.
Let's hope Disney comics will be back soon in the US.
Roger North
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2013-05-02 at 02:49:35
Right on Charlie Brown. *Thumbs Up* I too wish that Disney Comics will be published in the USA again.
GeoX
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2013-05-02 at 04:05:18
Mmm. I've read the ones that Gladstone reprinted in digest form, and while they ARE kind of mind-blowingly bizarre, they aren't exactly "good" by any metric I can think of. I wouldn't be opposed to reprinting one or two just for novelty purposes, but let's not get carried away here. They aren't in the same league, division, or sport as "Dangerous Disguise" (which, in any case, doesn't use "realistic" characters in the same sense that these do).
Ramapith
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2013-05-02 at 09:59:40
Bingo. The basic idea is good, but by no means are the stories or situations exploited for any kind of legitimate comedy, parody, or personality (Mickey and Goofy are just a generic straight man and "funny" man, which at 1960s Western meant "foolish coward").
Runner
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2013-05-04 at 15:20:15
I found the first comic to be horrible and repelling when I was a Disney comic book collector 12 years old in 1967 and saw the Swedish edition (with a silly title) for the first time. I am not sure if I even read it once in spite of having a subscription for "Kalle Anka" since 5 years back then. Otherwise the early Murry drawn Mickey stories from around 1954-1959 belonged to my favorites, and they still do.
Roger North
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2013-05-04 at 17:28:27
I don't have any of the Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent issues but I did read a few pages of one online. They have it on the Platypus Comics Website on the list for Worst Comics Ever. It must be pretty bad in order for it to be added to that list.
PhantomDuck
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2013-05-08 at 22:41:47
Probably it's not among the best Disney stories ever created, but it's far from characterizing them among the worst ones. I guess it is worth the reading. I really enjoyed them.
Germund
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2013-05-09 at 15:06:49
I'm fascinated by these stories, though I'd never claim that they're especially good. As I see it, the major mistake was that the scripts were designed to whenever possible avoid interaction between Murry's main characters and Spiegle's characters and backgrounds. It surely made the job easier, Murry and Spiegle never met i.r.l., but it made it a whole lot more difficult to make the stories exciting and engaging and, above all, graphically convincing. Still, when I had the opportunity last year to reprint the MM108+109 stories in a Swedish hardcover, which already had 2/3 of the first MM107 intro story in it, I grabbed the chance and we thus finally have all three stories available in Swedish.
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