Rodolfo Cimino

Get ready for Disney Masters Vol. 17: Mickey Mouse: The Man from Altacraz by Romano Scarpa and Vol. 18: Uncle Scrooge: Pie in the Sky by William Van Horn and John Lustig. First, in "The Man from Altacraz," Mickey tries to reform musical ex-convict J. Cobalt Bloogle--but another master criminal is using both Bloogle and Mickey to get his hands on a priceless treasure In "Risky Bees-ness," the Beagle Boys hit Uncle Scrooge with a sting; and in "The African Queen," Goofy falls in love with Zenobia, ruler of a lost jungle kingdom... and Mickey's troubles are just getting started Next: in "Pie in the Sky," when Scrooge enters the infamous Flitterwobble Airplane Show as a stunt pilot, he ends up defending his priceless antique Sopwith Two-Seater plane from the bombastic Baron Von Strudel In "The Amazon Queen," Scrooge sells a cursed necklace to a fellow treasure collector. And in "Another Vine Mess," a rare Patagonian Wirevine attacks Donald's house with ferocious, duck-destroying greenery Fantagraphics' Disney Masters series unearths a treasure trove of previously unavailable comics epics in the grand Walt Disney tradition: expanding the lore of Mickey, Donald, and Scrooge, anthologizing the work of fan-favorite North American talents, and bringing you the best of the acclaimed international artists whohave popularized Disney around the world.

In "The Man from Altacraz," Mickey tries to reform musical ex-convict J. Cobalt Bloogle -- but another master criminal is using both Bloogle and Mickey to get his hands on a priceless treasure Then, in "The African Queen," Goofy falls in love with Zenobia, ruler of a lost jungle kingdom... and Mickey's troubles are only getting started When Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson stopped creating new Mickey Mouse adventure serials in 1955, Italian Disney cartoonist Romano Scarpa (1927-2005) picked up the Mickey mantle -- telling decades' worth of legendary tales himself Now Fantagraphics is anthologizing Scarpa's best -- and beyond this book's Mickey tales, we're also including Scrooge McDuck versus the Beagle Boys in "Risky Bees-Ness"... the tale of a sting gone wrong

Scrooge McDuck wants to find the treasure of King Duckapulco, an ancient ruler of a pre-Columbian South American empire. But the King's ghost demands his vast wealth go only to the pure of heart. Is that why Scrooge and Donald are bringing Huey, Dewey, and Louie along? Beyond "King of the Golden River," this collection of stories, in English for the first time, includes "Me, Myself, and Why" -- in which Scrooge adopts two aliases to confuse the taxman -- only to develop a real split personality Plus: The Wild West saga of "Mickey the Kid and Six-Shot Goofy "