Take a Peek at the BOOM! Studios March / May Comic Previews
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BOOM! Studios March Previews for May Shipping 2011
LIFE AND TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDCUK $1 BOOM! BLAST Written by Don Rosa Drawn by Don Rosa SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $1.00 Diamond Code: MAR110954
Greed is good! And this Free Comic Book Day 2011 is your chance to check out a great sample of the Eisner-Award Winning THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDUCK in a special $1 BOOM! Blast edition. These stories, written and drawn by legendary cartoonist Don Rosa, chronicle Scrooge McDuck's fascinating life. See how Scrooge earned his “Number One Dime” and began to build his fortune!
DuckTales #1 (A) DuckTales #1 (B) Written by Warren Spector Drawn by Leonel Castellani SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 Diamond Code: MAR110998
DUCKTALES is back! The hit Disney Afternoon TV show makes a splash this month as an all new, original ongoing comic book series! Written by the creator of the EPIC MICKEY video game and illustrated by MARVEL SUPER HERO SQUAD’sLeonel Castellani, this is the latest and greatest revival of the Disney Afternoon Revolution that “might solve a mystery,” but will definitely “rewrite history!” Existing within the same continuity as kaboom!’s hit series DARKWING DUCK, find out why “life is like a hurricane!”
CHIP 'N' DALE RESCUE RANGERS #6 (A) CHIP 'N' DALE RESCUE RANGERS #6 (B) Written by Ian Brill Drawn by Leonel Castellani, Ricardo Garcia SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 Diamond Code: MAR110993
No crimes go slipping through the cracks in this issue of RESCUE RANGERS! A rich businessmouse begs for help tracking down his kidnapped daughter, but Chip ‘n’ Dale smell a rat. Actually, they smell a bunch of rats! And when NINJA PORCUPINES join the mix, things can’t get any worse for everybody’s favorite furry flatfoots! Another not-to-be-missed issue written by DARKWING DUCK’s Ian Brill and MARVEL SUPER HERO SQUAD’s Leonel Castellani!
DARKWING DUCK #12 (A) DARKWING DUCK #12 (B) Written by Ian Brill Drawn by James Silvani SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 Diamond Code: MAR110994
The epic can’t-miss conclusion of “F.O.W.L. Disposition!” Will the diabolical Duckthulu rise from the depths or will Darkwing Duck devise a way to detour the dreadful destruction? All this and more alliteration as the celebrated team Ian Brill and James Silvani hilariously put the “dark” in Darkwing Duck!
DONALD DUCK #366 Written by Abramo & Giampaolo Barosso Drawn by Giovan Carpi SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 Diamond Code: MAR110995
The celebration of 70 years of Walt Disney’s Comics continues as the Donald Duck "Pirate Gold" trilogy reaches its exciting conclusion! Enjoy plenty of pitfalls and paydays as Donald and his nephews star in an adventure that Scrooge McDuck himself would be proud of in this 1962 classic from Abramo and Giampaolo Barosso, “South Sea Shenanigans.” Never-before-printed in the US! Featuring an eye-popping cover by Ducks master Daan Jippes!
MICKEY MOUSE #308 Written by Noel Van Horn, Don Markstein, Ted Osborne Drawn by Noel Van Horn, Floyd Gottfredson, Al Taliaferro SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 Diamond Code:MAR111000
The celebration of 70 years of Walt Disney’s Comics continues here with a salute to modern Mickey master Noel Van Horn, featuring two stories never-before-seen in the United States! “Metamorphosis” finds Mickey confronting an out-of-control mechanical monster unlike anything you’ve ever seen, while “Rocky Road to Ruin” chronicles Mickey and Horace’s struggle to succeed in the cutthroat world of…ice cream sales? Also features the classic Floyd Gottfredson story “Mess Production,” not seen in the United States since 1934!
UNCLE SCROOGE #403 Written by Romana Scarpa, Daan Jippes Drawn by Romana Scarpa, Daan Jippes SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 Diamond Code: MAR111001
Scrooge McDuck is in for two times the trouble in a double-feature of classic stories! Witness dumb animal tricks gone wrong when Scrooge's money bin is plundered in the 1968 Romano Scarpa classic “The Pilfering Pelicans!” Then, the feathers really fly when Scrooge sets out to trap a bear in order to impress old friends from the Klondike…but the bear has other ideas. See this all unfold in the never-before-seen in the US tale “Scrappy Mettle” by Daan Jippes.
UNCLE SCROOGE: THE MYSTERIOUS STONE RAY & CASH FLOW Written by Carl Barks, Don Rosa Drawn by Carl Barks, Don Rosa SC, 56 pgs, FC, SRP: $6.99 Diamond Code: MAR110996
It's a Carl Barks/Don Rosa Donald Duck double feature! First up is Barks’ "The Mysterious Stone Ray” followed by Rosa’s "Cash Flow!" Carl Barks’ "The Mysterious Stone Ray” takes Scrooge on an ocean voyage for his health, where he ends up discovering an island full of petrified Beagle Boys…and the spindly scientist who made them that way! Then, back in Duckburg, Rosa’s "Cash Flow!" details another Beagle plot as they plan to literally liquidate all of Scrooge's assets. Two classic Duck artists and two classic Duck stories that are not-to-be-missed.
WALT DISNEY’S COMICS AND STORIES # 719 Written by William Van Horn, Dick Kinney, Peter Weijenberg, Bob Karp Drawn by William Van Horn, Al Hubbard, Dick Matena, Al Taliaferro, Bob Waiss SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 Diamond Code: MAR111003
The celebration of 70 years of Walt Disney’s Comics continues with a slew of classic stories perfect for the beginning of summer! Donald Duck tries to keep Duckburg cool – from global warming, that is – in William Van Horn’s “The Heat of the Moment,” and then Donald takes to the beach with his cousin Fethry in the 1965 Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard “Water Sports” — which has never been printed in the U.S. This issue also includes the Dick Matena-drawn “Pop’s Army” and a classic Al Taliaferro Donald story not seen in the U.S. in over 60 years!
UNCLE SCROOGE: MESSES BECOME SUCCESSES TPB Written by Bob Langhans, Paul Halas & Tom Anderson Drawn by José Maria Millet Lopez SC, 128 pgs, FC, SRP: $9.99 ISBN13: 9781608866267 Diamond Code: MAR111002
Not enough DuckTales? Well get ready to reload as Scrooge, Launchpad and the rest of the Duckburg mallards are back for this second volume of classic Duck Tales ripped from the pages of Uncle Scrooge! Our heroes have bested the blundering Beagle Boys and outfoxed the fearsome Flintheart, but who will triumph when they meet the menace of Magica de Spell? Only one place has the answer as kaboom! invites you along for “Messes Become Successes!”
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