David Gerstein


David Gerstein is an American comics author and editor as well as an animation historian. Gerstein has five books and countless comic book credits to his name. He has written many Disney comics stories, usually featuring Mickey Mouse and/or Donald Duck and provided American English script doctoring for Mickey and Donald stories that were originally written in a different language. Past employments include Egmont Creative A/S, a Danish comics studio, and Gemstone Publishing. His current work is with various affiliates of Egmont, and Fantagraphics Books.
Recurring gags in Gerstein's writing include quotations from Shakespeare, Gilbert and Sullivan, and T.S. Eliot, often paraphrased in a humorous manner.

Book work

As author/editor :
  • Donald Duck: The Ultimate History
  • Donald Duck: The 90th Anniversary Collection
  • The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition
  • Disney Afternoon Adventures—Darkwing Duck: Just Us Justice Ducks
  • Disney Masters—Donald Duck: Follow the Fearless Leader
  • Disney Masters—Donald Duck: Scandal on the Epoch Express
  • Mickey Mouse: The 90th Anniversary Collection
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Old Castle's Other Secret
  • Mickey Mouse: The Greatest Adventures
  • Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History
  • Disney Masters—Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Three Caballeros Ride Again!
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Mysterious Dr. X
  • Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Escape from Forbidden Valley
  • Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3
  • Donald Duck: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Treasure of the Ten Avatars
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Mickey vs. Mickey
  • Donald Duck: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2
  • Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2
  • Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Universal Solvent
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Planet of Faceless Foes
  • Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 1
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Richest Duck in the World
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Rise of the Rhyming Man
  • Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 1
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Last of the Clan McDuck
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Tomorrow Wars
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Treasure Under Glass
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: March of the Zombies
  • Learn to Draw Mickey Mouse & Friends Through the Decades
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Return to Plain Awful
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Lost in Lands of Long Ago
  • The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sun
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Manuel Gonzales
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays: Robin Hood Rides Again
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays: Call of the Wild
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: House of the Seven Haunts!
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: High Noon at Inferno Gulch
  • The Katzenjammer Kids—100 Years in Norway
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Trapped on Treasure Island
  • The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Race to Death Valley
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Floyd Gottfredson II
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard
  • Walt Disney Treasures—Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special
  • Walt Disney Treasures—Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation
  • Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse
  • Donald Duck: 70 Years
  • The Walt Disney Centennial Book
  • 70 Years With Mickey Mouse
  • Nine Lives To Live: A Classic Felix Celebration
  • Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies
As contributing author/editor:
  • Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow
  • Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee
  • Mickey All-Stars
  • Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Al Taliaferro
  • The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
  • Kalle Anka & Co – Den kompletta årgången 1965-02
  • Mickey Mouse Classics series
  • Donald Duck & Co-De komplette årgangene 1965 del V
  • Animation Art: From Pencil To Pixel
  • Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide
  • Black Images in the Comics

    Comics and magazine work

  • Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
  • Anders And & Co.
  • Walt Disney's Christmas Jubilee Present
  • Uncle Scrooge
  • Comic Book Marketplace