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Barbecue Near Swimming Pool

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis: Donald uses a nephew's snorkel to breathe above the smoke from his barbecue.

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Pages: 1

A Gander at Gladstone

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

The Do-Gooder's League

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Mr. Longitude; Mr. Pennywise; mailman; festival MC; three knitting ladies; cop; poor man that fights with Donald; mayor's wife; crowd at festival

First Line: One day each year, the entire city of Duckburg focuses its attention on poverty.

Synopsis: This week, the most important thing in Donald's world is belonging to the pompous and self-important The Do-Gooder's League, an organization that talks a great deal about poverty, but does little about it. Donald has pawned nearly everything he owns to pay the exorbitant membership dues but is still ten dollars short and is on the verge of expulsion. He resolves to get that ten dollars by hook or by crook, from his nephews' piggy bank. If not, he may never again wear the Do-Gooder's trademark high hat.

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Pages: 10

Job Number: H 7418

Notes: Story is untitled in this issue. The recorded title appears to have originated later, in Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories 600 (Gladstone, December 1995).

Not Too Much Talking

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: anthropomorphic

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Pages: 4

Job Number: S 85299

The Madball Pitcher

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; "Knuckleball" Noogan; Duckburg Southside Team; Duckburg Northside Team; members of the Northside Social Club (toughs); umpire; riot police

First Line: Oh, boy! I've invented a new kind of attracting force!

Synopsis: Gyro, caught in the middle in a hotly contested baseball game between two Duckburg teams, invents an unhittable ball for one side and an unmissable bat for the other.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: GGOS 1095

Gold Rush

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck

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Pages: 1

Job Number: US 14

Notes: Gag page is untitled in this issue; provenance of the recorded title is unknown.

The Vanishing Railroad

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; J. Waldo Wallow (financier); Gruggers (chauffeur); Mr. Boomer (railroad owner); The Clinker Brothers (two tired has-been outlaws)

First Line: We had a pretty good run to Cinder City today, didn't we, Fireman Goofy?

Synopsis: Mickey and Goofy work as engineer and fireman on the locomotive "Penelope", for the Tankburg, Cinder City & Pacific, a small railroad owned by Mr. Boomer. By chance, Mr. Wallow, a wealthy financier and railroad hobbyist, sees "Penelope" and the rest of the antique train and wants them for his private collection. Mr. Boomer turns the offer down, as the line has been in his family since 1880. Gruggers, Wallow's crooked chauffeur, overhears and employs The Clinker Brothers, two has-been outlaws, to steal the train - piece by piece - planning to sell it to Mr. Wallow for a huge profit.

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Pages: 7.75

Job Number: WDC 185

Notes: Part 1 of 3.

Good Bit: After the down-and-out Clinker Brothers fail miserably at holding-up Mickey and Goofy's train, they try their luck on an approaching car, driven by the scheming Gruggers. With considerable effort, they roll two boulders and a log across the road and stop the car to rob its driver.

CLINKER #1 (dazed): "Point the gun at him, Brother!"
CLINKER #2 (dazed and weary): "I'm just too old and tired even to LIFT my gun! (Gasp!)"
GRUGGERS (somewhat confused): "What is this... a HOLDUP?
CLINKER #2 (barely standing): "Well, it started out to be, but now we're too tired!"

This story is a sequel to Fallberg and Murry's "Ridin' the Rails" originally printed in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #173-175 (1955).