Donald Duck #112
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDonald Duck #112 (March 1967, Gold Key/Western) holds a firm place in Disney comics history as the debut issue of Moby Duck, an eccentric seafaring whaler who became one of the few entirely new characters introduced to the Duck universe during the Gold Key era. The character resonated strongly enough that he returned just two issues later and was spun off into his own title — Moby Duck — which ran for thirty issues through 1978, a remarkable franchise springboard for a single backup-style story. The issue is also notable as the first in the Donald Duck Gold Key run to feature the Gold Key Comics Club pages, marking an editorial evolution in how Western Publishing engaged its young readership. Unusually, it may also be the only issue of the Gold Key Donald Duck run in which nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie are absent from both the cover and every interior story.
In "I Came, I Sawed... and I Conquered Sleeplessness!", Donald Duck teams up with the eccentric sailor and whaler Moby Duck and his loyal pet porpoise, Porpy, in a wild adventure that takes them far out to sea to stop a daring cattle-rustling scheme. Written by Vic Lockman and brought to life with energetic art by Tony Strobl—inked by Steve Steere and colored by the Western Publishing Production Shop—this 1967 classic blends slapstick humor with maritime mischief, all wrapped in a cover by Strobl and Steere that captures the zany spirit of the tale.
In "A Whale of an Adventure," Donald Duck teams up with the eccentric sailor and whaler Moby Duck and his loyal pet porpoise, Porpy, for a high-seas adventure that takes a surprising turn when they uncover a cattle-rustling scheme unfolding on the open water. With a mix of humor and maritime mischief, the trio sets out to stop the thieves—though the real challenge might be keeping their own ship from sinking under the weight of the chaos.
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The lead story, 'A Whale of an Adventure,' was crafted by writer Vic Lockman — one of Western Publishing's most prolific scripters, working across virtually every funny-animal licensed title the company produced — and penciled by Tony Strobl, the dominant Donald Duck artist from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, with inks by Steve Steere. Lockman had already introduced other minor Duck-universe characters for Gold Key, and Moby Duck joined a small but enduring roster of his creations. The editorial infrastructure of the issue — managing editor Alice Nielson Cobb, story editor Chase Craig and/or Del Connell, and art director Tom McKimson — was the same tight Gold Key team steering all the Western Disney books at the time.
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- First appearance of Moby Duck, an eccentric sailor and whaler introduced as a distant seafaring relative of Donald Duck, in the story 'A Whale of an Adventure.'
- First appearance of Porpy the Porpoise, Moby Duck's loyal pet who accompanied the character throughout his subsequent series.
- Story written by Vic Lockman and illustrated by Tony Strobl (pencils) with inks by Steve Steere — the core creative team on Gold Key Donald Duck at the time.
- Cover date: March 1967; published under the Gold Key Comics imprint of Western Publishing.
- Moby Duck returned two issues later in Donald Duck #114 (July 1967, 'The Jewels of Skull Rock') and then launched into his own Gold Key solo title later that same year, running thirty issues through 1978.
- First issue of the Gold Key Donald Duck title to include Gold Key Comics Club reader-participation pages.
- Noted (with a qualifier) by the Grand Comics Database as potentially the first issue of the Donald Duck title in which Huey, Dewey, and Louie appear neither on the cover nor in any interior story.
- The debut Moby Duck story was reprinted in Donald Duck #233 (November 1981, Western/Whitman) and was also translated and published in the Norwegian Donald Duck & Co series in 1967.
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Reprinted in Topolino #620 (1967), Almanacco Topolino #131 (1967), Donald Duck & Co #49/1967 (1967), Donald Duck & Co #52/1967 (1967), Donald Duck #233 (1981), Donald Duck Comics Digest #4 (1987), Tegneseriebokklubben #78 (1991), ميكي [Mickey] #382
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