Disney Masters

Fantagraphics launched the Disney Masters Series with Vol. 1: The Delta Dimension in May 2018. Since then they have published a few new volumes in the Disney Masters series each year. Volumes have been alternating between the central character and story being Mickey Mouse related or Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge.

Fantagraphics presents Disney Masters – acclaimed artists from around the world working in the grand Walt Disney tradition. Many of these stories are new to American readers and appear here for the first time in English. Fresh new artwork, fresh new adventures, and fresh new laughs!

Disney Masters Vol. 27: Walt Disney’s Goofy: Super Goof and the Strange Case of Dr. Syclocks

Book Description:

Super Goof… a strange dog-man-thing possessing super-peanut-powers! Disney’s caped hero in red flannel underwear is back by popular demand, flying after fearsome foes in a complete graphic novel collection of Paul Murry’s Silver Age super-tales! Gawrsh!

The year: 1965! When Goofy gulps a peanut from his “super goober” garden, there’s a super puff of smoke―and our hapless hero gets the powers of super X-ray vision, super speed, and super strength! 

With his ear-splitting cry of “Tuh-duh!” Super Goof battles bad guys across the globe―including sinister Dr. Syclocks, the Tower of Pisa-stealing Super Thief, a freeze-dried Dr. Tempo, and the Beagle Boys, all out to kidnap and resell an entire zoo (super-scoop: it’s harder than it looks!).

Silver Age fan-favorite artist Paul Murry brings us his full run of adventures from Super Goof plus select later issues, some never reprinted. Follow Mickey Mouse on his pal’s heroic trail―and never, ever, underestimate the power of a Goof!

Disney Masters Vol. 27: Walt Disney’s Goofy: Super Goof and the Strange Case of Dr. Syclocks was published by Fantagraphics in October 2025.

This volume of the Disney Masters series is 236 pages and features Disney Master Paul Murry. This is the sixth Disney Masters volume to feature Paul Murry’s artistry

The books starts off with a two page history on the three origin stories of Super Goof. The Super Goof concept has three different origin stories which are detailed in these pages. A short biography on Paul Murry is included in the back of the book.

Disney Masters Vol. 27: Walt Disney’s Goofy: Super Goof and the Strange Case of Dr. Syclocks is available in hardcover and Kindle\Comixology versions. A link to buy this book can be found at the end of this review.

Included Stories

There are 25 stories originally published between 1965 to 1978 included in Disney Masters Vol. 27:

• All’s Well That Ends Awful
• The Thief of Zanzipar
• The Vanishing Zoo
• Bullet-Proof Goof
• Rarin’ to Go
• The Strange Case of Doctor Syclocks
• Big Game
• Knotty Problem
• The Giant Windoola Jade
• The Big Bib’s Secret
• Super-Blown Candles
• Super Goof Meets Super Thief
• Shockproof Watch
• Reeling-In a Big One
• The Twister Resisters
• Super Goof Vs. the Cold Ray
• A Clean Sweep
• The Rocket Robbers
• The Paste-Up Job
• Mighty Mover
• Paper Peril
• The Case of the Flying Umbrella
• The Spray Can Caper
• The Misfit Matador
• The Secret Key Mystery

All’s Well That Ends Awful is the second origin story of Super Goof. In this story, Super Goof gets his powers from a special Super Goof cape that Gyro Gearloose made for Goofy. Goofy has real powers such as super flight, super sight, super jump, and super strength. Super Goof is all around a super guy, but sometimes is saving does more destruction than it does good in the most goofiest ways possible. You might be asking if this is the second origin story, what is the first? The Super Goof concept debuted in the comic story, The Phantom Blot Meets Super Goof. Goofy drinks a beaker of super fuel made by Gyro Gearloose. Goofy is convinced that he has super powers, but his powers are not real. He does wear the blue cape and red long flannel underwear with a G on the chest. That story is not included in this volume, but it is included in Fantagraphics Disney Masters Vol. 15: Mickey Mouse New Adventures of the Phantom Blot. The origin story introduced in All’s Well That Ends Awful erases that original Super Goof story where Goofy’s powers aren’t real.

Super Goof would get his own self titled comic in which the story The Thief of Zanzipar would introduce the third Super Goof origin story that would stick for 74 issues. Goofy gets his Super Goof powers from eating super goober peanuts that he grew in his peanut patch in his backyard. Clarabelle wins a cooking contest which comes with a trip to Zanzipar. Clarabelle is set to cook her award winning curry for the sultan. Super Goof flies to Zanzipar to be her chaperone to protect her from thieves who want to kidnap the fair maiden Clarabelle for themselves.

Goofy takes his pal, Mickey Mouse, to a zoo with invisible animals in The Vanishing Zoo. The animals have been stolen by the Beagle Boys who plan to get rich by setting up their own zoo in a place that has no zoo. This seems like a job for Super Goof to save the animals.

Super Goof shows off his bullet-proof powers in Bullet-Proof Goof. But those bullet-proof powers will not save him from Huey’s water gun.

Super Goof purchases a surfboard when he reads the newspaper article that a crime wave hit the city in Rarin’ to Go.

Super Goof and Mickey Mouse are on the case in The Strange Case of Doctor Syclocks. A jewel thief is using bombs made of clocks to break into all of the jewelry stores in Mouseton to steal jewels. The clock bombs are made by Gepetto…yes, Pinocchio’s father. Mickey has no idea that Super Goof’s secret identity is his best pal, Goofy. Doctor Syclocks is a very serious and dangerous villain and won’t allow Mickey and Super Goof to stand in his way. He even pushes Mickey out of a plane in mid air. Luckily Super Goof is there to save Mickey as they race to the Alps to get to Gepetto before Doctor Syclocks.

Super Goof paints numbers on the top of buildings so that he can play the tallest game of hopscotch ever in Big Game.

Super Goof can fly faster than jet planes. Bullets bounce off of him. He can lift trucks, but there is one thing he cannot do. He needs Clarabelle’s help to get the knots out of his shoelaces in Knotty Problem.

Super Goof gets called to the jungle to assist his hero Barzan protect the jungle while Barzan regains his strength in The Giant Windoola Jade. Years and years of protecting the jungle has made Barzan exhausted and weak. He switches places with Super Goof so that he can get back in shape. Goofy is low on peanut goobers so he has to use the goobers sparingly. Meanwhile, a group of thieves that call themselves the River Rogues are in the jungle in a submarine in search of the giant Windoola Jade. It is up to Super Goof to keep the jade away from the River Rogues until Barzan returns.

Clarabelle almost discovers Super Goof’s secret identity as she goes to Goofy’s house while he is dressed as Super Goof. He turns the cape around and uses it as a bib as he eats his ice cream in The Big Bib’s Secret. It is the perfect disguise to fool Clarabelle.

Goofy is ready to blow out the candles on his birthday cake in Super-Blown Candles. The cake blows out the window and across the yard where a hungry horse is able to get a cake desert surprise.

Super Goof has trouble sleeping. So he might as well eat a super goober peanut and sleep super, but his super snooze does not go as planned as his super hearing picks up that a super crime is going down. A new super foe emerges in London, England as Big Bim, the large clock in the tower, is stolen by Dr. Stigma and his henchman in Super Goof Meets Super Thief. Super Goof’s super hearing helps him find the clock by listening out for the ticking of the clock. Dr. Stigma follows that act by committing another super crime of sending the Leaning Tower of Pizza to the moon as a rocket ship. Dr. Stigma then hypnotizes the town to think that their Duck Bay Bridge has disappeared. Super Goof is able to unhypnotize the town by flying a hypnotist around town saying the magic words. For Dr. Stigma’s final act, he kidnaps Clarabelle and hides her in a volcano. Will Super Goof defeat Dr. Stigma and save Clarabelle? You will have to read and find out.

Super Goof buys an advertised shockproof watch and wants to return it when it does not withstand the test of lighting and flying through mountains in Shockproof Watch.

Super Goof goes fishing and catches a submarine in Reeling-In a Big One.

Super Goof is bored because there is not much super crime to take on in the city, and it seems like he makes the worst decisions when he tries to help others. His nephew Gilbert discovers his secret identity, and Gilbert becomes his super hero sidekick when he eats a super goober peanut with his uncle Goofy. Together they help the city and take down a super villain who is creating custom tornadoes to destroy farms in The Twister Resisters.

Super Goof is frozen by a cold ray when he attempts to stop a series of thefts in Super Goof Vs. the Cold Ray. The bag guys’ master plan is to build a giant cold ray on the moon to freeze the earth. Sometimes the best way to fight a cold ray is with a heat ray, but where is Super Goof going to find one of those?

A Super Goof’s job is never easy. Every time he cleans up the city. Something always messes it up again in A Clean Sweep. The bad guys who used the cold ray on Super Goof in the previous story are back, and this time they are creating a device to match Super Goof’s wave length to shake him to pieces. Super Goof unknowingly uses super goobers in his ears as ear plugs which protects him against the wave length ray. With the help of Auper Gilbert, Super Goof is able to clean up the city again and take out the bad guys.

All of Earth’s rockets are stolen by people from another planet impersonating Super Goof in The Rocket Robbers. This act is done so that earthlings are not able to come to their planet to attack them. Super Goof flies to the planet and becomes their new King. Super Goof returns all of the rockets home to Earth.

In an act of mistaken identity, Super Goof arrests the wrong person in The Paste-Up Job. As part of payment for a ransom, Super Goof pastes dollar bills all over himself in a pile that he he uses to get the drop on the kidnapper.

Super Goof is able to stop some bad guys by moving a pyramid and placing it upside down on their car in Mighty Mover.

Super Goof gets trapped inside a paper bag in Paper Peril.

A millionaire goes air born with an electric umbrella that he is given by a stranger in The Case of the Flying Umbrella. The umbrella brings it’s holder to an undisclosed location and drops him into some hay that goes though a metal funnel which leads to an underground hide out. Super Goof to the rescue!

Criminals overhear that Super Goof won’t hit anyone with glasses. So when they do their crimes, they wear a pair of giant glasses and get away. The next time that Super Goof sees them he spray paints their lenses so that he won’t have to hit them to stop them in The Spray Can Caper.

Super Goof gets recruited to be a matador in The Misfit Matador. A bull attracted by his red flannels runs into Super Goof which knocks the bull out. Two locals want him to be a Super Matador in the arena, but Super Goof doesn’t want to hurt the bull. So he dodges all of the bull’s attempts to ram him until the bull gets tired.

Super Goof goes up against the dangerous Pantom Blot in The Secret Key Mystery. The Blot uses clay to make a copy of a key from a statue in a museum. The key will unlock a secret treasure room in a sun temple in Central America.

My Review

Never fear…Super Goof is here. “YAAAAAAAAH-HOO-HOO-HOO-EEEEE!” I was first introduced to Super Goof in the story The “Phantom Blot Meets Super Goof” which was included in Disney Masters Vol 15: New Adventures of Super Goof. Ever since then, I have been interested in reading more Super Goof stories. I wanted a whole volume of Super Goof goodness and this is that volume. We get twenty five super goofy tales in this volume. This would be a great book for readers to get introduced to the character, and I am telling you that you are going to love Super Goof and want more.

With this being the sixth Paul Murry entry in the Fantagraphics Disney Masters series, we are well on our way to collecting the Paul Murry Library. Some of my favorite Disney Masters volumes have been the ones to features his work.

I love the Disney Masters series because we get treated to stories and illustrations from more great Disney comic creators besides the legendary Barks and Rosa. We may have never had a chance to read these stories outside of Fantagraphics’ Disney Masters series.

I am definitely looking forward to reading future volumes of Fantagraphics’ Disney Masters series. A big thank you to Fantagraphics for sending us this book to review so that we can continue our education and journey through the history of Disney Comics.

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