 walt disney's comics and stories, sometimes abbreviated wdc or wdc&s, is an anthology comic book series that has an assortment of disney characters, including donald duck, scrooge mcduck, mickey mouse, chip 'n dale, lil bad wolf, scamp, bucky bug, grandma duck, brer rabbit, winnie the pooh, and others. ==publication history== the precursor to wdc was mickey mouse magazine, published in several incarnations from 1933 to 1940.disney comics history, 1930-1984 by david gerstein wdc itself was launched in october 1940, and initially consisted of reprints taken from the disney comic strips donald duck, mickey mouse and silly symphonies reformatted for comic books and colored. the first original story created for wdc was an adaptation of the flying gauchito illustrated by walt kelly in #24 (aug. 1942). by the mid-1950s the title was the best selling comic book in the united states, with a monthly circulation of over three million.willits, malcolm. "interview with george sherman". vanguard 1968, reprinted in duckburg times #12 (1981). mark evanier describes the high circulation as the product of "an aggressive subscription push."  to facilitate birthday and holiday gift giving to youngsters, western publishing offered to send subscription recipients illustrated letters that announced the gift. also various premiums were offered for new subscribers, including a mini-poster attributed to walt kelly advertised on the back cover of wdc&s #100 (jan. 1949).{{cite web|author=kaya Ãzkaracalar |url=http://kayaozkaracalar2.blogspot.com/2008/07/big-bad-wolf-at-circus.html |title=big bad wolf at the circus (1949) |pub
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