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Issue: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Beach Party #1
Publication Date: September 1965
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/1965
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (509 = September 1965). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (656 = June 1965).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
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Cover, Wraparound
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Donald in Inner Tube

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Grandma Duck; Daisy Duck; Gus Goose
Synopsis: Members of the Duck family have fun at the beach.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck Beach Party #1 [25ยข Cover Price] published July 1954
was Donald in Innertube [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: DDBP 1-00
Disclose Notes: Wraparound painted cover.
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Overinflated Beauty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; bathing beauty
First Line: Hey, boys! Want t' go to the beach?
Synopsis: While inflating Huey, Dewey, and Louie's rubber horse at the beach, Donald is distracted by a bathing beauty.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Donald Duck Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1953.08.23
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.
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Sea Breeze Sailors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; two prospective homebuyers; Foghorn (parrot); wild boars; old hermit sea captain; battleship captain; messenger boy; marine geologist
First Line: Heh, heh! How about this, kids - we're really livin' it up, eh?
Synopsis: Donald and the boys are living it up in Uncle Scrooge's beach house complete with yacht, but only until they sell both the property and the yacht for Scrooge. Wanting to continue the soft life all summer, Donald uproots the "For Sale" sign, and takes the boys for a cruise on the yacht. Trouble begins when Uncle Scrooge comes to the beach house to check on things, and is compounded by the seafaring ducks coming across an old parrot on a piece of driftwood... with a treasure map etched on its beak.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck Beach Party #2 [unnamed variant] published July 1955
was Sea Breeze Sailors [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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Rival Boatmen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Black Pete (as "J.P. Diamondtubs")
First Line: Don't let Unca Donald know we cut our price!
Synopsis: Donald Duck and the boys, as the titular "Rival Boatmen", compete for the fishing boat rental patronage of millionaire J.P. Diamondtubs. The boys surreptitiously cut their posted rental rates while Donald is napping, and Donald responds by frighting dirty.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v4 #9 (45) published June 1944
was Rival Boatmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: As in several Barks stories, the character best known as Black Pete or Peg-Leg Pete is cast in a character role - this time as "J.P. Diamondtubs, the millionaire".
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Liking a Life Guard's Looks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; chief lifeguard; lots of bathing beauties
First Line: Here's how I make my vacation expenses!
Synopsis: Donald takes a job as a lifeguard at a beach loaded with bathing beauties, though none of them need any lifeguarding assistance... until the tall, handsome, well-built chief lifeguard relieves Donald.
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Reprint Notes: from Donald Duck Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1947.03.23
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Pirate Dream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Blup, blub blub!
Synopsis: Donald dreams he is a pirate digging up buried treasure on a small island, where he digs one shovelful too many.
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Reprint Notes: from Donald Duck Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1959.03.22
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On final interior page of the comic.
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Underwater Photos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Dewey
First Line: Y' got something in mind, Unca Donald?
Synopsis: Donald waterproofs his camera to take some unusual underwater photos and win a thousand-dollar camera contest prize. All goes swimmingly, until a big fish intervenes.
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Reprint Notes: from Donald Duck Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1947.07.06
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Only one duck nephew appears. "Dewey" is actually mentioned by name in panel three. Lettering looks slightly different from Al Taliaferro's usual, so it is not credited to him. Black and white on inside back cover.

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