Production in USA (Foreign market stories)

General information

From 1962 to 1990, the Disney Studios produced comics for the 'Foreign market'.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Tony Strobl, Al Hubbard, Jack Bradbury, Romano Scarpa, and others drew a lot of 'Studio' stories, along with a bunch of new artists like Jim Fletcher and Glenn Schmitz.

New writers like Dick Kinney introduced new characters and situations, like Fethry Duck; Double-O Duck; Madam Mim & Magica living together in a castle.

From the late 1970s on, the Jaime Diaz Studios drew most of the stories. Some of the series: Disney's Goofy Classics (with Goofy as a famous historic character); A Goofy look at...; Mickey and the Sleuth; DuckTales.

Story codes

In the 60's, the code was built as follows:
1st digit = the last digit of the year
next digits = sequence number.
Example: #6178. This is the 178th story the studios made in 1966.
Sometimes, the code was preceded by an 'X' or 'XTRA' or a little square.

From 1970 on, the codes are preceded by an 'S'. Example: S#2106 = 106th story in 1972. From 1973 on, the story codes contained the last 2 digits of the year, to avoid ambiguities with the stories from 1963 etc. Example: S#73002.

Story codes in the INDUCKS

In the INDUCKS, the codes are always

S + space + 5 digits

The 4-digit codes from the 60s get an extra '6', and from the early 70s an extra '7'. Examples: "X 3123" -> "S 63123"; "XTRA 1234" -> "S 71234".

A few covers that we expect were made for the Studio carry a code starting with SC.

contributions: Harry Fluks

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