My First Disney Comic!

[Matthew Williams]

Since some other folks are reminiscing about the first Disney comics that
they ever bought, I've got to share mine too!  I love nostalgia!  Walt
Disney's Comics and Stories 525 was the first Disney comic that I bought AND
read.  I remember that the Milton/Jippes story mostly went over my
eight-year old head.  The Pooh gag was great, though, and I loved the last
part of Fallberg and Murray's "The Golden Touch."  The first Uncle Scrooge I
ever bought AND read was #226.  It reprinted the Cornelius Coot statue
story, and it hooked me on Barks for life!

I say "bought AND read" because my parents would often buy me Gold Key/Dell
comics before, and I would just look a little at the pictures.  Then I would
take a pair of scissors and cut out all of the pictures of the characters.
Many, many fine Disney comics met their doom that way.  I shudder to think
of those poor lost comics!  I know that I chopped up an original printing of
"The Golden Nugget Boat" for sure.  Dear me!

So what issues or stories hooked the rest of you?

Matthew A. Williams