The weirdest I've read that I clearly remember (there is another one that I so vaguely remember that I sometimes think I only dreamed it) is Pippo e la depressione da inquinamento, I TL 951-B (http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++951-B). Goofy goes crazy because of pollution and is meant to be cured by a scientist who becomes mad in turn, both then wreak havoc on the city. Basically, the whole story is Goofy acting like a lunatic and Mickey being helpless. Very puzzling.
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Topic: What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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Dia-Dia
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-03-08 at 21:04:11
Roger North
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-03-09 at 12:13:07
I think the weirdest story I read was Skeptics and Sorcery. It was a Donald Duck story published in Mickey Mouse and Friends #283. In that story Magica turns Donald into an Elephant and she eats at the holiday banquet while the other people chase Donald. That is by far my least favorite Disney comic story ever.
Coolwater
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-15 at 13:33:28
Hehe, nice thread. Regarding the masses of Disney comics I read in my life I would have difficulties to pull out the one and definite weirdest story. I must point out, however, one special story that was published here relatively short ago and that I remember as being extremely trashy, of very low quality in story as well as drawings.
I mean the 8-pager "Soccer Magic" (Inducks), a South American story from the sixtees that was presented here on the occasion of the European Football Championship two years ago in the monthly Donald Duck magazine. The magazine bears the title "The greatest stories of Donald Duck"--unfortunately it seems to be the magazine's politics that a story produced before 1970 must be regarded per se as a "classic" whose patina gives it an antique "greatness", otherwise one could not explain why one is bothered in the "noble" Donald Duck magazine with such a dreadful piece of work that Ehapa would be ashamed to show to the readers in the "childish" Micky Maus weekly.
Samples of the story's artwork can be marvelled at the Inducks links above. The story is cut from just the same cloth: A bizarre burlesque about the Ducks playing football against Indians who perform magic tricks to win the game.--One could state, however, that that all is so bad that it is somehow good again--finest and genuine "trash" after all, bad taste for bons vivants. :)
At least a first-class translator was engaged for that story, even if even this man's "magic" could hardly change tack there. But I hope, Syll, that it wasn't you who made the editor horny in the first place to release that ... er ... "classic". ;)
I mean the 8-pager "Soccer Magic" (Inducks), a South American story from the sixtees that was presented here on the occasion of the European Football Championship two years ago in the monthly Donald Duck magazine. The magazine bears the title "The greatest stories of Donald Duck"--unfortunately it seems to be the magazine's politics that a story produced before 1970 must be regarded per se as a "classic" whose patina gives it an antique "greatness", otherwise one could not explain why one is bothered in the "noble" Donald Duck magazine with such a dreadful piece of work that Ehapa would be ashamed to show to the readers in the "childish" Micky Maus weekly.
Samples of the story's artwork can be marvelled at the Inducks links above. The story is cut from just the same cloth: A bizarre burlesque about the Ducks playing football against Indians who perform magic tricks to win the game.--One could state, however, that that all is so bad that it is somehow good again--finest and genuine "trash" after all, bad taste for bons vivants. :)
At least a first-class translator was engaged for that story, even if even this man's "magic" could hardly change tack there. But I hope, Syll, that it wasn't you who made the editor horny in the first place to release that ... er ... "classic". ;)
Bence
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-15 at 15:04:48
One of the weirdest Disney Comics must be William Van Horn's Close-Ups (http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2007-075) . I missed it unfortunately when it was released in the German Micky Maus but I have read how weird it is. The description from Inducks: "The duck family's out walking in the park when suddenly they begin to get the feeling they're being watched. Paranoia sets in, but is really kicked into high gear when DD notices they're being drawn in nothing but close-ups! What a nightmare!"
Coolwater, the art of "Soccer Magic" reminds me of the probably worst Disney Comic artist ever, I do not remember his name but members of the German Comicforum used to make fun of him years ago. Do you remember his name?
(EDIT: I just found his name on Lambiek.net: Jim Fletcher!)
Coolwater, the art of "Soccer Magic" reminds me of the probably worst Disney Comic artist ever, I do not remember his name but members of the German Comicforum used to make fun of him years ago. Do you remember his name?
(EDIT: I just found his name on Lambiek.net: Jim Fletcher!)
Dia-Dia
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-15 at 15:28:56
Quote from user: Bencethe probably worst Disney Comic artist ever
I would have nominated Giuseppe Perego for that title but in fact he could draw very well, only I find his style dull, stiff and two-dimensional.
I would have nominated Giuseppe Perego for that title but in fact he could draw very well, only I find his style dull, stiff and two-dimensional.
Coolwater
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-15 at 15:37:23
Quote from user: BenceCoolwater, the art of "Soccer Magic" reminds me of the probably worst Disney Comic artist ever, I do not remember his name but members of the German Comicforum used to make fun of him years ago. Do you remember his name?
Hmm, I don't know whom you exactly mean. Some of the older ("classic") North American artists who operated at the side of Carl Barks are similarly of a makeup that takes some getting used to. Maybe you are referring to Kay Wright? He is comparatively often still in discussion because he produced a good bunch of the first, pre-Jippes finish versions of Barks' late Junior Woodchuck stories. Nevertheless, Wright is still better than that South American artist of "Soccer Magic" in my eyes.
(Edit: Edit noticed. ;))
Hmm, I don't know whom you exactly mean. Some of the older ("classic") North American artists who operated at the side of Carl Barks are similarly of a makeup that takes some getting used to. Maybe you are referring to Kay Wright? He is comparatively often still in discussion because he produced a good bunch of the first, pre-Jippes finish versions of Barks' late Junior Woodchuck stories. Nevertheless, Wright is still better than that South American artist of "Soccer Magic" in my eyes.
(Edit: Edit noticed. ;))
Dutch Duckfan Down Under
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-15 at 15:44:24
Any early artwork could probably qualify for this title, with the exception of the early American work. The early Dutch work (1953-1955), early Belgian work (1950-1959), early Brazilian and Argentinan (1950s), early Italian work (1930s-1950s), early Danish work (1959-early sixties), and so on, and so on.
Gerd Syllwasschy
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-15 at 16:21:10
Quote from user: CoolwaterBut I hope, Syll, that it wasn't you who made the editor horny in the first place to release that ... er ... "classic". ;)
Me? No. I haven't been to a soccer game in decades. I even had to get help from Milano to find appropriate translations for the soccer lingo.
However, I admit it was fun doing that story. Very trashy, indeed, and politically refreshingly incorrect. :D
Me? No. I haven't been to a soccer game in decades. I even had to get help from Milano to find appropriate translations for the soccer lingo.
However, I admit it was fun doing that story. Very trashy, indeed, and politically refreshingly incorrect. :D
Dia-Dia
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-16 at 08:52:50
Gerd, of course any story in LTB Nr. 62, especially "Topolino e i grilli atomici" is weird as well.
GeoX
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-16 at 09:03:44
I don't know about "weirdest," but this story--in which Gyro comes up with an invention that endows furniture with life and sentience, and then turns Donald into a chair to reason with them and stop them from rebelling--is definitely one of the flakier things I've read lately.
FINAL EDIT: Okay, it works now. Sheesh.
FINAL EDIT: Okay, it works now. Sheesh.
Sirredknee
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
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2010-08-16 at 09:20:27
Does this work?
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=D+97438
Edit: Yes, it worked, but only after disabling the smilies.
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=D+97438
Edit: Yes, it worked, but only after disabling the smilies.
Sirredknee
What's the weirdest story you've ever read?
Message 12 -
2010-08-16 at 09:30:43
The weirdest things I've come across in Disney comics are a humanized Pluto in knight's armour
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=ZM+016
and a humanized Bolivar acting the part of a judge
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TG++713-AP
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=ZM+016
and a humanized Bolivar acting the part of a judge
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TG++713-AP
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