List of DuckTales comics by the Studio Program

Danish cover to "The Grope Diamond"

Disney's Studio Program was a department within the Walt Disney Company that produced comics, starting in the early 1960s, and created several DuckTales comics in the late 1980s.

Overview

Although US-based, the Studio Program focused on the oversea market, where the demand for Disney comics had grown stronger than it was in North America. Consequently, the majority of the thousands of comics that the Studio produced was never published in the United States, and many of the characters that frequented them remained obscure for American readers of Disney comics; e.g. Fethry Duck and John D. Rockerduck.

However - following the success with DuckTales in 1987, many of the Studio Program's DuckTales stories did appear in American comic books (ten of them were even produced directly for the American market, for the DuckTales Magazine). The majority remains unpublished in the US to this day, though.

Listed below are all the Studio Program's DuckTales stories. Artists for all of the stories are Jaime Diaz Studio (most notably including Cosme Quartieri) in Argentina, while the writers are noted when known. Besides the first two produced, every story has an original script.

Besides one-shot creations, the characters that appeared in these comics were the same that appeared in the cartoon; the one addition being Donald's Grandma Duck, a well-established Disney character that never made it to the animated series, but appeared in a couple of the comics.

Worth noticing, some stories created before DuckTales premiered and thus not set in the DuckTales continuity, were given the DuckTales brand (and, in some case, getting minor changes in the dialogue) when printed in the US. These are noted as "'False' DuckTales stories" below.

The Studio Program ended in 1990, as Disney opted to establish a full-fledged comic book publishing arm - Disney Comics.

The stories

Main stories

Title	Pages	Writer	Story code	US publication	Note(s)
Armstrong	21	Larry Gotterer	S 87040	DuckTales #1	Based on the aninmated episodes by the same name
Jungle Duck	23	Jim Fanning	S 87052	DuckTales #2	Based on the aninmated episodes by the same name
The Lost Valley	18	Frank Ridgeway	S 87067	DuckTales #3
The Abominable Snowduck	16		S 87070	DuckTales #6
The Phantom Barnstormer	15	Vic Lockman	S 87090	DuckTales #9
Finders Weepers	16	Carl Fallberg	S 87094	Junior Woodchucks #1
The Spirit of Chief Firebird	15	Vic Lockman	S 87094b	Junior Woodchucks #2
The Lost-and-Found Medal	15	Vic Lockman	S 87100	DuckTales #8	Title changed to "Of Badges'n'Beagles" in the US
The Gold Hound	13	Bob Langhans	S 8????	Junior Woodchucks #3	Errorously given the code KJW 013
The Cave Caper	12		S 88009	Junior Woodchucks #4
The Smart Nephew	12	Bob Gregory	S 88020
The Crown Jewels Affair	15	Frank Ridgeway	S 88026	DuckTales #4
The Grope Diamond	18		S 88029
The Desert Plot	13	Vic Lockman	S 88032	DuckTales #8	Title changed to "Sidereal Estate" in the US
The Fountain of Laughs	12	Frank Ridgeway	S 88042	DuckTales #5
Star Island Treasure	11	Vic Lockman	S 88044	DuckTales #7
Once Upon A Dime	13	Carl Fallberg	S 88045
The Oil Pirates	12	Frank Ridgeway	S 88048	DuckTales #9
Wilderness Survival Day	13		S 88054	DuckTales #8
The Fish Sitter	12	Frank Ridgeway	S 88056
The Skywriting Crimes	10	Vic Lockman	S 88060	Spring Fever (1990) #1
Uncle Whiskers	11	Vic Lockman	S 88067
The Eek Machine	12		S 88068		Grandma Duck appears
The Nature News	11	Vic Lockman	S 88069
Don't Rub Me the Wrong Way	12	Frank Ridgeway	S 88071	DuckTales #11	Title changed to "The Magic Lamp" in the US
Gyro's Marvelous Picnic Machine	14	Carl Fallberg	S 88075		Grandma Duck apears
A Scottish Treasure	12	Tony Strobl	S 88077	DuckTales #13	Title changed to "Scottish Scares" in the US
The Dirt Chopper	12		S 88080
Digging For Treasure, Again	10		S 88084
The Cave Ducks	12		S 88096
Revamped Camping	15		S 88099
Behind Prison Walls	12		S 88103
Somebody Else Finds It... For Us	14	Carl Fallberg	S 88108
Parrot Island	12		S 88117
Uncle Scrooge - Head Mogul	9		S 88122
The Big Race	12		S 88123
Gyro's Berry Copter	8	Tony Strobl	S 88125
The Gold Nugget Mine	14		S 88130
The Circus Comes To Town	12		S 88132
Roberta the Robot	12		S 88137
Dogs in Disguise	13		S 88139
Computer Chaos	14		S 88143
The Magic Show	12		S 88145
An Antsy Plan	14	Carl Fallberg	S 88156	DuckTales #16
Kingdom of the Ants	13		S 88157
The Secret Of Eagle Mountain	12		S 88158
The Treasure Hunters	11	Tony Strobl	S 88159
At the Top of the World	12		S 88162
How Not To Be A Millionaire	10		S 88166
Unk-Unk	11	Bob Foster	S 88172	DuckTales #13
The Petras Penny	12		S 88181
Lardina, Princess of the Nile	12		S 88185
The Treasure Trek	14		S 88186
The Purloined Coin	12		S 88198
The Big Bird Bath Battle	14	Carl Fallberg	S 88207
The Idol	12		S 88209
Go West, Young Duck	15		S 88210
Scrooge McDuck and the Boys on Easter Island	10		S 88211
The Great Chase	12	Frank Ridgeway	S 88216	DuckTales #16
The Old Number One Dime	12		S 88219
The Curious Canine	15		S 88223
The Witch Switch	15		S 88228
Glitter! Glitter! Little Diamonds	12		S 88229
Sleepy Valley	9		S 88234	Junior Woodchucks #4
A'Haunting We Will Go	12	Bob Langhans	S 88243	Autumn Adventures (1990) #1
The Stealing of Old Westburg	14		S 88260
The Hex	12	Pete Hansen	S 89005	Uncle Scrooge #270
Pirate's Cove	14		S 89008
The Beagle Boys' Scientific Crimewave	13		S 89010
Ex-pilot	13		S 89020
The Black Pyramid	12		S 89024
Up the Amazon without a Paddle	15		S 89033
Hideout in the Past	14		S 89050

DuckTales Magazine stories

Main article: DuckTales Magazine

Unlike the other comics that the Studio produced, the stories published in DuckTales Magazine were made specifically for the US audience. In all, ten stories of 4 pages each were created.

"False" DuckTales stories

Title	Pages	Writer	Story code	US publication	Note(s)
Rescue Runaround	13	Vic Lockman	S 85243	Junior Woodchucks #3
Wrongway Jones	10	Bob Langhans	S 86180	Junior Woodchucks #2
McDucks Castle	12		S 86182	DuckTales #10	Title changed to "The Daft McDuck" in the US