Our new edition is being prepared by Fantastics! 🙂

Apparently Fantographics is preparing a new strong series for 2018. The Amazon, taking a look we see that there is going to be a new series called Disney Masters! The first volume will be dedicated to Romano Scarpa. Its title is Disney Masters Vol. 1: Romano Scarpa: Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: The Delta Dimension. Very interesting and from this we understand that the main story will be The Fourth Dimension (that we saw here in the second volume of the Library of Scarpa). I hope (don't say I'm almost sure) that this version will probably have a much better coloring than our trial. Fantographics takes out volumes of excellent quality both in color and in the whole edition.

Other information to be obtained from the first volume:

  • Durable 208 pages
  • Date of release: 8 May 2018
  • Value: 30 bucks
  • ISBN-10: 1683960963
  • ISBN-13: 978-1683960966

Also from Amazon we have the following description for the first volume:

Mickey must discover the mystery of bright snow in this new series dedicated to classic comics creators.

Fantographics is proud to start a new series of volumes dedicated to Disney's greatest cartoonists, starting with this volume with classic Mickey Mouse stories designed by the great Italian cartoonist, Romano Scarpa! When the city of Mickey is hit by a snowstorm of strange glowing snow, everyone thinks it's a commercial. But the genius Dr. Enigma knows better. Black Pete is out of control with Enigma weather control secrets! Only Mickey and Enigma the mysterious companion — the little weird Atomino B. Beep — they can save the day before a poisonous storm destroys Mickey City! When Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson stopped creating new adventures with Mickey Mouse in 1955, Italian Disney conductor Romano Scarpa (1927 – 2005) took Mickey's cloak — and quickly proved to be worthy of an epigeny, prolonging decades of worthy new adventures with Mickey — most of which were never available in English! Now Fantographics translates and anthologies Scarpa's best stories! This volume reconnects Mickey, Atomino and Black Pete about Scarpa's stories «The Bleep-Bleep 15» and «The Fabulous Kingdom of Shan-Grilla»Two internationally known stories that make their North American debut! Full color illustration throughout the volume.

So from the above we conclude that he will have the following stories:

  1. The Fourth Dimension
  2. The Bleep-Bleep 15 (unpublished in Greece)
  3. The Fabulous Kingdom of Shan-Grilla (unpublished in Greece)

The above stories are a total of 200 pages. Taking out the cover and back cover will leave them about 4 pages for 1-2 articles on Scarpa and the stories. Fine.

But let's go see what we have in the other two volumes. In the second volume (192 pages) entitled Disney Masters Vol. 2: Luciano Bottaro: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge’s Money Rocket We'll have his stories Luciano Bottaro In addition, the third, Disney Masters Vol. 3: Paul Murry: Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: The Case Of The Vanishing Bandit stories of Paul Mary. The second will be released June 12, 2018 and the third on July 17.

Below we see the description of the second volume from Amazon:

Uncle Scrooge transfers his money to the moon in this new series devoted to classic comic book creators.

Our second volume in the new edition airs one of Duck's best Disney designers, Luciano Bottaro! When Scrooge transfers his money to the moon to save it from greedy Marrowwolves, Donald Duck accidentally flees to the rocket to escape — and drifts into an asteroid! With Rebo, King of Saturn suddenly in the picture, can Donald save himself and Scrooge's fortune? The conductor of Italian comic books Luciano Bottaro (1931–2005), based on Carl Barks' tradition, has been spinning wild, exciting and almost psychedelic fairy tales about Limnoupoli for decades! Now Fantographics brings his best work to Disney for the English-speaking world – starting with Rebo the great sci-fi evil of Bottaro! After Rebo's first major battle with Donald and Scrooge in history «The interplanetary rocket», The ugly alien returns from space to «Rebo Reducks»This volume's second cosmic adventure. Then Bottaro puts Scrooge against Carl Barks' beloved witch Furka, in «The Televised Witch». This is the second edition of the new Disney Masters series, featuring one of the most favorite Disney Italian cartoonists! Full color illustration throughout the volume.

So from the above we conclude that he will have the following stories:

  1. The interplanetary rocket
  2. Paperino e il ritorno di Rebo (unpublished in Greece)
  3. The Televised Witch

For the third we know he will certainly have this story according to his title:

  1. The Case of the Vanishing Bandit (unpublished in Greece)

In general, good for Fantastics for the new volumes and it wasn't something I expected personally. Something sounded like Scarpa, I was expecting something else. I may get one of the above volumes sometime and because they'll have nice stories focused but also because the quality will be very good.