In order to avoid hazards and arrive safely, Chip and Dale mailed themselves to their uncle's place in CHIP 'N' DALE # 6 (Dell Comics, Cover Date: June-August, 1956)!
They did it again 18.5 years later when the story was reprinted in CHIP 'N' DALE # 31 (Gold Key Comics, Cover Date: January, 1975)!
But notice that the 1956 version has AN ACTUAL 1956 POSTMARK DATE, and one that was even consistent with the issue's release date...
...While the 1975 version does not UPDATE THE DATE TO 1975, but ELIMINATES it altogether in favor of a more generic "USA"!
Let alone that the 'munks' FUR also faded to more of a gray-ish brown over the years between original and reprint! ...Showing their age, perhaps?
Finally, even though the reprint had FEWER CHARACTERS stamped onto Chip 'n' Dale's left hips and thighs...
...I'm betting it HURT just as much!
Our powerfully post-pounding panels are by Jack Bradbury!
4 comments:
A wise move, in that it meant one less thing to worry about for future reprintings. I wonder how many times the story was reprinted after 1975. I also wonder if reprintings of this story in foreign comic books kept the "USA" in the postmark.
If they'd kept the original date, it would have been a LONG airmail flight! I've seen packages delayed, but usually not for 20 years! Although of course they don't call it "snail mail" for nothing!
Chip'n'Dale were remarkably well-preserved for having been up in the air all that time! The change in their pelts was probably the least of their worries by then!
Sergio:
Checking one later reprint (WALT DISNEY’S COMICS AND STORIES #519, Gladstone Series I, Cover Date: June, 1987), we find the non-dated postmark.
The story was again reprinted in (DONALD DUCK #299, Gladstone Series II, Cover Date: November, 1996). I have not checked that one but, since it was also printed by Gladstone, it would add that they most likely used the same version they probably had in-house for nine-or-so years.
Anyone wanna take a shot at non-USA printings?
Scarecrow writes:
“I’ve seen packages delayed, but usually not for 20 years! Although of course they don't call it "snail mail" for nothing!”
And, in Chip ‘n’ Dale’s forest-creature-case, it’s probably delivered by REAL snails!
“Chip'n'Dale were remarkably well-preserved for having been up in the air all that time! The change in their pelts was probably the least of their worries by then!”
So, you’re saying that “Oh, the ol’ gray (-ish brown) Munks, they ain’t what they used to be?”
Unexpected side-benefit: Perhaps that bout of “aging” slowed their voices down to where we could finally understand them!
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