"The End" Week: Goofy Adventures #17!

OK, here's another one absolutely yanked from the quarter bin because it said "Final Issue!" on it; although I might have paid more attention if some creators had gotten some billing! From 1991, Goofy Adventures #17, featuring "Back in Time!" (Per the GCD, written by Donne Avenell, art by Antonio Bancells Pujadas.) "Goofy the Kid Rides Agin" (Plot by Joel Katz, script by Jack Sutter, art by Tello.)

The first two stories this issue are pretty routine Goofy numbers: in the first, Mickey and Goofy accidentally fire up Professor Chronolapse's time machine, travel back to prehistoric times, and destroy history in a causality loop. (OK, not really, they meet and help out their cave-people ancestors...that don't really resemble Mickey or Goofy? That's just confusing.) Then a western number, where Goofy helps his farmer uncle against cattlemen.

But the last story, "Tomb of Goofula," is just a little bit of fluff with Goofy as Dracula...from Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan, and Tom Palmer; the long-running team of Tomb of Dracula! This Disney line was edited by Len Wein, which might explain how that came together. Great, but it's kind of like getting the band back together, and they play one song on toy instruments then split. (Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror comic was only able to get Wolfman and Colan for "The Sub-Basement of Dracula!" in 2005!)

Goofy also writes the farewell letters column, telling readers thanks, thanking his writers and artists, and that he had a new lead role in the upcoming cartoon, Goof Troop. 78 episodes and two movies! Hope he saved some of his money, the last thing I saw him in was that Simpsons short, Plusaversary, and...I don't think it was well-received, let's say.