"Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck"
officially out of print
The second printing of Gemstone
Publishing’s highly praised The Life & Times of Scrooge of Scrooge
McDuck has sold out from the publisher and Diamond Comic
Distributors. The trade paperback collection features writer-artist
Don Rosa’s epic saga of the great historic events in the life of
Scrooge McDuck, the Walt Disney character created by the late master
artist Carl Barks.
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 Gemstone Publishing, through a licensing
agreement with Disney Publishing Worldwide, is offering a variety of
comic books featuring Disney's line of standard characters. Mickey,
Minnie, Donald, Uncle Scrooge, Daisy, Goofy, Gyro, and other
favorites will star in a series of monthly and bimonthly comic
books."There has been a strong tradition of
Disney comics, which have been enjoyed by audiences around the world
for over seventy years," said Deborah Dugan, president, Disney
Publishing Worldwide. "Thanks to this collaboration with Gemstone,
Disney has been able to renew this tradition in the U.S. with the
retail launch of this timeless comic book series."
"As the comic book industry is
experiencing a resurgence in popularity, Disney comics can now be
enjoyed by a whole new generation while some of us older folks have
the opportunity to once again be enchanted by their distinctive
artistry and humor," said Steve Geppi, Gemstone Publishing president
and CEO.
 In 1985 a new
division was founded, Gladstone Publishing, which
took up the then-dormant Disney comic book license.
Gladstone introduced a whole new generation of Disney comic
book readers to the wondrous storytelling of such luminaries
as Barks, Paul Murry, and Floyd Gottfredson,
as well as presenting the first works of modern Disney
comics masters Don Rosa and William Van Horn.
The company was based in Scottsdale, Arizona, until January
of 1987, when the whole shootin´ match was packed and hauled
up to the mile-high community of Prescott, the one-time
territorial capitol of Arizona. Following this move, along
with continuing to bring out Disney comics (except for a
three-year hiatus at the beginning of the 1990s) and Carl
Barks lithographs, there were interesting sojourns into the
realms of EC Comics and Dick Tracy comic strip
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