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Issue: Donald Duck #246

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Publication Date: October 1986

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Issues: #246 of 62 Issues (113 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

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Publisher: Flag

Gladstone

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Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.

On Sale Date: 07/01/1986

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: 071486026976

Price: $0.75 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: "Newsstand" is indicated by the corner box value of CCC 02697, which doesn't change from issue to issue. Barcode is on back cover.
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #96.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.

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Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Donald Duck #246 [Direct Edition]

Donald Duck #246 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (3 total)

Donald Duck and The Gilded Man

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; El Dorado the Gilded Man

Synopsis: Clutching a coveted mailsack, Donald and the boys flee from the towering figure of El Dorado the Gilded Man.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Cover illustrates the issue's lead story.

[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): A Gander at Gladstone

First Line: As long-time Disney fans may know ...

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Pages: 1

Donald Duck and The Gilded Man

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; Philo T. Ellic (rich stamp collector); various stamp collectors; old man in canoe; El Dorado the Gilded Man

First Line: British Guiana, rich in lore of buccaneer days, is famous for its steaming jungles and mighty rivers; its man-eating fish and savage voodoo cults, but it is more famous because of a stamp!

Synopsis: The ducks go to British Guiana in search of the world's rarest stamp, a one-cent magenta of 1856, and find it on a letter in the possession of El Dorado, a giant golden Indian. After they retrieve the letter, the ducks learn that it is addressed to a deceased Duckburg resident who named Gladstone her only heir.

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Pages: 32

Notes: Mickey Mouse (Dell, 1952 Series) #74 (October-November 1960) offered "The Rare Stamp Search", a 15-page remake of the 32-page Duck adventure "The Gilded Man" starring the Mouse and his nephews Morty and Ferdie, copied in many places panel-for-panel and word-for-word, though omitting any business with "El Dorado, the Gilded Man" in favor of a different ending. https://www.comics.org/issue/15893/#126599

In the remake, Mickey describes the sought-after mail sack from the year 1856 as being "96 years old." (Page 11, panel 5) 1856 plus 96 adds up to 1952, original publication year for "The Gilded Man" - not 1960, publication year for "The Rare Stamp Search".

This error was further forwarded in a 1975 reprint of "The Rare Stamp Search" in Mickey Mouse (Western, 1962 Series) #156 (June 1975) https://www.comics.org/issue/28714/ where the dialogue was left unchanged.

The Mickey Mouse remake was itself further remade as "The Rare Reward" for Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #1151 Mickey Mouse Album (November 1960-January 1961) https://www.comics.org/issue/15968/ with a length of only eight pages and a more condensed ending.