Gladstone Publishing

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Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published

While still distributed on news stands, their orientation toward the collectors market was visible in their inclusion of scholarly articles, mostly by associate editor Geoffrey Blum. Unlike the previous Disney comic book licensee Western Publishing, Gladstone provided credits for the stories.

Although Gladstone is no longer an active publisher, it continues to offer its back issues through its website.

First generation (1986–1990)

• Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
• Donald Duck
• Mickey Mouse
• Uncle Scrooge
• Uncle Scrooge Adventures
• Donald Duck Adventures
• Mickey and Donald
• DuckTales

Second generation (1993–1998)

• Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
• Donald and Mickey
• Uncle Scrooge
• Uncle Scrooge Adventures
• Donald Duck
• Donald Duck Adventures
• Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse
• Walt Disney Giant
• Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Penny Pincher
• Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck
• The Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck

During the second run, there was another implosion in 1998, like the one that

Softcover albums

During the first run Gladstone issued 28 albums and seven giant albums consisting mostly of reprints of stories by

• Walt Disney Comics and Stories – Comic Albums #1–51 (With trading cards)
• Uncle Scrooge Adventures – Comic Albums #1–56 (With trading cards)
• Donald Duck Adventures – Comic Albums #1–25 (With trading cards)
• Gyro Gearloose – Comic Albums #1–6
• Uncle Scrooge – One-Pagers – Comic Albums #1 & 2
• Donald Duck 1940s Christmas Giveaways

There were also three different series of Albums featuring stories by Don Rosa and William Van Horn respectively.

• The Don Rosa Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #s 1–4 featured The first twelve chapters of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
• The Don Rosa Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #s 5–8 featured all the Uncle Scrooge stories that Don Rosa did during his first two years as a Disney Comics Artist.
• The William Van Horn Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #s 1–4 featured all of the stories that William Van Horn did during Gladstone's first run.

After its license expired in 1998, Gladstone ceased publishing new material, and there were no more Disney comics in the United States (except for occasional graphic novels based on the Disney films, put out by Dark Horse Comics), until 2003, when Gemstone Publishing gained the publishing rights.

EC Comics reprints

Between 1990 and 1991, Gladstone reprinted four

Subsequently, Cochran and the EC reprints moved to Diamond Comics-CEO Steven A Geppi's Gemstone Publishers, which naturally reprinted the Gladstone-printed issues as part of their EC reprints. (Gemstone, whose key editorial staff at startup – John Clark, Gary Leach and Susan Daigle-Leach – previously worked for Gladstone, also subsequently gained the rights to Disney comics, a license formerly held by Gladstone.)

References

• "A Gander at Gladstone" by Roger Ash. Back Issue! no. 23 (August 2007) pp. 35–41.

External links

• Gladstone official website
• Geoffrey Blum's official website Archived 2010-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Gladstone Publishing at Inducks