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Hi, Roger:
This is Dan of "I Can Break Away"??I'm in the midst of putting together the last full chapter of The Disney Comics Story, "The Disney Implosion" which will show up in mid-to-late June. Beyond paying work and freelance commitments, all the research, fact-checking and putting together the best images within these series takes some time, and I want to make sure the information is presented as best it can.
Later in 2014, I hope to to an "Epilogue" chapter on what became of that part of W.D. Publications, Inc. and the individuals involved in the 1990-1993 Disney Comics line.
There will be more comic book posts coming this year (in between other topics) which I'll put up as my schedule allows. I appreciate your reading the series! - Dan

Gotta say I found this series fascinating. I think I learned more about the Disney Comics era in the first post than I knew altogether going in. I eagerly await the follow-ups!

I went to the "I Can Break Away" website, but I can't find the "Disney Comics Story". Can you please tell me how to navigate on that website to find it?

Thank you everyone for the kind words on the Disney Comics series! If this helps, I'm including the links below to that series, and a few others that would be of relevant interest to fans of Walt Disney comic books and the Ducks in general.

To make things easier, each chapter of The Disney Comics Story has a link to the succeeding chapter at the end of each post... there's also additional information posted within the comments section, so be sure to scan through those, as well.

At the bottom is the latest post from 6/9/14 with a nice article on Clarence "Ducky" Nash you can download for offline viewing or print out to keep in your files.

Next chapter of The Disney Comics Story "The Disney Implosion" is coming soon! - Dan

The Disney Comics Story

Prologue
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html

Part I: Ready to Launch
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993-ready.html

Part II: The Disney Comics Explosion
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993_5112.html

Disneyland and Walt Disney World Comic Books From Western Publishing

Part 1: Disneyland, Inc. and the Business of Western Publishing's Disneyland Comic Books
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/03/disneyland-inc-and-business-of-western.html

Part 1.5: The Disneyland Comic Art of Carl Barks & Q&A with Joseph Cowles, Author of Recalling Carl
(includes downloadable PDF of Joseph Cowles's original typewritten draft and Carl Barks's handwritten outline for "The Candy Kid" from WDC&S #263)
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-disneyland-comic-art-of-carl-barks.html

Part 2: The Business of Western Publishing's Disneyland Comic Books??Post-Disneyland, Inc. & Walt Disney World
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-business-of-western-publishings.html

Got Donald Duck Adventures #5? WHICH ONE?
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2012/11/got-donald-duck-adventures-5-which-one.html

The Masterful Mash-Up Cartooning of Don Rosa
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2012/07/masterful-mashup-cartooning-of-don-rosa.html

Donald Duck's 80th Birthday: Just Ducky!
(includes downloadable PDF of 6-page interview w/ Nash)
http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/06/donald-ducks-80th-birthday-just-ducky.html

That section only tells what happens when The Walt Disney Company published their own comic books. That was my favorite Disney Comics Era.

Quote from user: HonuDanQuote from user: Robb_KThanks. It is a very well-written, informative article. But, I was expecting the history of all Disney Comics, starting from Mickey Mouse Magazine, through Boom! and what little there has beyond after Boom!. I guess that was too unrealistic, as it would take years of research and a very long book, to do that subject justice.
Thanks, Robb:

I actually didn't have an intention to do a concise history from Mickey Mouse Magazine to the current day, but I'm sure I'll fill in the gaps on some of the other publishers as time goes on. My central motivation to do a series on the self-published Disney Comics era was to provide some context for an imprint that had a minimal amount of documentation available online.

There's also another chapter to come on the theme park comics, and I have some more ideas for new posts with themes seen in Walt Disney comic books, which will show up in the next year or so.

But to satisfy your initial desire, David Gerstein wrote a wonderful 22-page history of the U.S. Walt Disney comic books for Comic Book Marketplace in 2003. The article chronicles the books before Mickey Mouse Magazine, right up to the start of the Gemstone license. David has kindly made the article available online as a PDF, the link to which I've pasted below:

http://www.cartoonresearch.com/gerstein/Back-To-Long-Ago.pdf
Great! Thanks. That should be very interesting. David is a terrific writer.

Michael Barrier's Funnybooks, due out later this year will probably cover the Western Publishing days pretty thoroughly.