It's 1991 and with a lineup of Ducktales, Tailspin, Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck, weekday afternoons were dominated by Disney.
I've long thought that holiday comics weren't for expanding the canon of a character but for a tremendous opportunity to advertise a publisher's characters and comics. From reading this book, I think I was on to something. At the end each of the 7 or 8 stories in this holiday anthology, there's a small blurb (at the page bottom) advertising what regular monthly comics the characters further appear in.
Those stories are a mix of classic and all-new (to 1991) stories. They include:
- A Carl Barks favorite in which Donald's nephews try really hard to be good for Santa and fail miserably.
- Baloo and his beloved cargo plane are taken hostage in the tiny nation of Thembria, in a story that reflects the miracle of the first Hanukkah!
- Chip and Dale get an unexpected visitor in the form of a flying squirrel that flies in its sleep!
- Uncle Scrooge tries really hard to think of one good deed he's done in order to impress Santa.
- A snow drift threatens to keep Santa from coming to town. That is unless Super Goof can save the day!
Add L'il Bad Wolf and his Pop, Mickey, Minnie and Pluto and a host of other Disney favs and you've got a fantastic assortment of holiday themed stories!
If I had found this when I was a teen, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it. But now that I'm older, I long for simpler things. Walt Disney's Holiday Parade is a time capsule to the early 90s. It wasn't a perfect time. But it sure wasn't as cruddy as 2021 has been.
Worth Consuming!
Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.
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