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Issue: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #25
Publication Date: November 2001
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Issues: #25 of 27 Issues
Title: Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Balloonatics
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/17/2021
Volume: 25
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781683964742
UPC/EAN: 978168396474252999
Price: $29.99 USD
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Content Items: 50 (18 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: 7.5" x 10.25" (19.05 cm x 26.03 cm)
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: ongoing series
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Balloonatics

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck (in the form of a balloon); Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: A gigantic balloon of Donald Duck is attacked by jet fighters.
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Disclose Notes: This cover image is a composite of Barks illustrations from the story "Balloonatics" - page 6, panel 2 and page 9, panel 7.
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[untitled]

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Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks

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Character(s): Donald Duck
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Donald Duck
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Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Balloonatics" by Carl Barks

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Character(s): Donald Duck
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Contents

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Character(s): Louie (nephew with green hat)
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[untitled]

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Balloonatics

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper
First Line: Leaves! Thousands of Leaves!
Synopsis: A giant balloon of Donald Duck triggers a military panic.
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Pages: 10
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Froggy Farmer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Golly! There's a lot of baby frogs this year!
Synopsis: Donald believes he's grown some giant frogs.
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The Dog-Sitter

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Did you kids promise some people named Snootley that you would baby sit for them tonight?
Synopsis: In place of his nephews, Donald is stuck baby sitting a dog.
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Mystery of the Loch

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Hooray! We've got 500 box tops from boxes of Icky Quikies, the dynamic breakfast food!
Synopsis: Donald takes photos of the Loch Less monster and is swallowed up by it.
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The Village Blacksmith

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Daisy Duck; Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper
First Line: Under the spreading chestnut tree, the Duckburg smithy stands!
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie try to scare up some business for Donald's struggling blacksmith shop.
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The Fraidy Falcon

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Castaway (timid falcon)
First Line: One day last spring Huey, Louie, and Dewey were hiking in the country!
Synopsis: Donald trains a timid falcon for a parachuting trick.
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Rocks to Riches

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge
First Line: What on Earth is that noisy contraption, Donald?
Synopsis: Donald and the nephews explore the desert for semi-precious stones.
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Turkey Trouble

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck; Gladstone Gander; I.M. Slick (shady real estate salesman)
First Line: There's a flock of cars at Daisy's house, Unca Donald!
Synopsis: Donald and the nephews compete with Gladstone to capture wild turkeys. Matters are complicated by the machinations of a shady real estate salesman.
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Missile Fizzle

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; General Blagg; reporters; big-brained scientists; Professor Slyrat; soldiers; guards; Gyro Gearloose
First Line: At Duckburg's busy missile base, befuddled men test towering rockets, which never seem to get off the ground!
Synopsis: Repeated acts of sabotage have stalled Duckburg's missile program, until lowly missile base broom-boy Donald and his intrepid nephews begin to investigate on their own.
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Disclose Notes: A good Cold-War era spoof by Carl Barks.
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The Whole Herd of Help

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Grandma Duck's Farm Friends
Character(s): Grandma Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Huey; Dewey; Louie; elephant; Dobbin (horse); pig; Big Bad Wolf [Zeke Wolf]
Synopsis: Scrooge gives Grandma an elephant that he has received as an unwanted gift. The elephant soon proves proves useful on the farm - and ultimately useful to Scrooge.
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Pages: 8
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The Day the Farm Stood Still

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Grandma Duck's Farm Friends
Character(s): Grandma Duck; Gus Goose; Gyro Gearloose; Steady Heddy (hen); Roger (precocious chick); Bossy (cow); Dobbin (horse); pig; goat; Farmer Bumpkin; other angry farmers
First Line: Land sakes! It's way past daybreak! Why didn't the rooster crow and awaken me?
Synopsis: Grandma wakes to find the farm silent, waiting for the return of a precocious chick who has upset all of the surrounding farmers with his efforts to help them.
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Disclose Notes: The story title is a parody/tribute to the classic sci-fi film "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951).
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The Training Farm Fuss

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Grandma Duck's Farm Friends
Character(s): Grandma Duck; Gladstone Gander; farmer in jeep; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gus Goose; Angus (bull); Farmer Bumpkin; airport bus driver; Mexican man-on-the-street; Mexican bulls
First Line: You were lucky to catch a ride with me, young feller!
Synopsis: Gladstone practices being a matador using one of Grandma's bulls, then heads for Mexico where he finds unexpected results.
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The Reversed Rescue

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Grandma Duck's Farm Friends
Character(s): Grandma Duck; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Beagle Boys; goat
First Line: Grandma! Kids! Yoo, hoo! Struggle outside if you're still conscious!
Synopsis: Donald flies in a mini-helicopter to Grandma's snowbound farm intent on rescuing his relatives, but is shot down by some snow-stalled Beagle Boys. Grandma and the nephews end up rescuing him.
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Peril of the Black Forest

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; various other Junior Woodchucks; bear; eagle; various woodland creatures; The Great B.O.W.W.O.W. (Woodchuck leader); Uncle Scrooge; bulldozer operators; crane operator; various citizens of Duckburg
First Line: In the Black Forest of Duckburg, all days are joyful days for the Junior Woodchucks
Synopsis: Scrooge intrudes upon Duckburg’s idyllic Black Forest with an army of bulldozers, intent on destroying the woodland paradise to build a new model city. The Junior Woodchucks and their forest allies stand in his way.
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Pages: 14
Job Number: D 2006-260
Disclose Notes: Scrooge McDuck begins a run of stories created by Carl Barks for the Huey, Dewey, and Louie Junior Woodchucks title (Western, 1966 series), where he is cast in a recurring role as a villain warring against environmental concerns for personal gain.

This story was originally published in Huey, Dewey, and Louie Junior Woodchucks #6 (1970) with story by Carl Barks and art by John Carey. Years later it was redrawn in a more "Barksian style" by Daan Jippes.
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Whale of a Good Deed

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck (cameo); Daisy Duck (cameo); Muddy Dick (whale); various other Junior Woodchucks; Littlest Chickadees; Sandy McCinder; The Great T.O.P. B.R.A.S.S. (Woodchuck leader)
First Line: Duckburg will always remember Tidal Wave Pluvius!
Synopsis: In the wake of a massive tidal wave, Uncle Scrooge and the Junior Woodchucks clash over the fate of a beached whale, deposited by the tidal wave into a muddy ditch. The Woodchucks are out to free the whale and return it to the sea, while Scrooge intends to “render this mammal into countless barrels of whale oil”.
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Job Number: D 2005-013
Disclose Notes: This story was originally published in Huey, Dewey, and Louie Junior Woodchucks #7 (1970) with story by Carl Barks and art by John Carey. Years later it was redrawn in a more "Barksian style" by Daan Jippes.

Pages and panels are reconfigured from the original version drawn by John Carey – the original was 17 pages, and this version (by condensing panels) comes to 14 pages.
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Let Sleeping Bones Lie

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; General Snozzie (the Official Woodchuck Hound); various other Junior Woodchucks; Uncle Scrooge; The Great J.A.W.B.O.N.E. (Woodchuck leader); members of Uncle Scrooge's construction crew; land office clerk; interior decorators; Colossosaurus (fossilized dinosaur skeleton)
First Line: The Junior Woodchucks and General Snozzie, their official hound, are searching the Duckburg badlands for ways to earn merit badges in Paleontology!
Synopsis: The Junior Woodchucks uncover the skeleton of Colossosaurus, "...the largest creature ever to live". Uncle Scrooge has plans to build a new super highway directly through the site of this historic find. He later has a change of plan, and decides to convert the massive skeleton into a gaudy dinosaur-themed restaurant attraction - complete with crass curtains and a rock band to play in the skull's sinus cavities. Can the Woodchucks and their Official Hound save the fabled fossil from such a fate?
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Pages: 14
Job Number: D/D 2003-003
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Bad Day for Troop 'A'

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Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; other Junior Woodchucks of Troop 'A'; Junior Woodchucks of Troop 'K'; Great R.I.N.G.T.A.I.L.E.D. S.N.O.R.T.E.R. (Woodchuck leader); three circus midgets; circus fat lady; circus skinny man; two forest rangers
First Line: There is much rivalry between the Junior Woodchucks' troops of Duckburg!
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie's Junior Woodchuck Troop 'A' always bests the also-ran Troop 'K' in all competitions. Both troops are off in search of a downed circus plane, to help the passengers. Can Troop 'K' finally shine in this rescue mission of some unusual circus performers?
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Job Number: H 92002
Disclose Notes: This story was originally published in Huey, Dewey, and Louie Junior Woodchucks #8 (1971) with story by Carl Barks, pencils by Tony Strobl, and inks by Larry Mayer. Years later it was redrawn in a more "Barksian style" by Daan Jippes.
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Life Savers

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; various other Junior Woodchucks; The Great H.I.S.S. and P.O.A.H.M. (Woodchuck leader); members of a movie crew
First Line: One of the Junior Woodchucks' most important events is the life saving drill!
Synopsis: While practicing rescues of wrecked seafarers, the Junior Woodchucks are fooled and taunted by a derisive movie crew. ...Never fool and taunt a troop of Junior Woodchucks.
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Job Number: D 2006-238
Disclose Notes: This story was originally published in Huey, Dewey, and Louie Junior Woodchucks #6 (1970) with story by Carl Barks, pencils by Tony Strobl, and inks by Steve Steere. Years later it was redrawn in a more "Barksian style" by Daan Jippes.

Oddly, in contrast with the previous story, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are members of Junior Woodchucks Troop 'K' - the troop they looked down upon in "Bad Day for Troop 'A'".
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Carl Barks Cover Gallery

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: This gallery of Carl Barks covers includes a never-before published cover that Carl Barks intended for an issue of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.
Synopsis: Introduction to the Carl Barks Cover Gallery.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #70

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Character(s): Donald Duck
Synopsis: Donald disposes of a banana peel inside a suit of armor.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #236

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: The boys construct a wooden playhouse around poor Unca Donald, trapping him inside.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #236 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #71

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Character(s): Donald Duck
Synopsis: A sun-focused telescope burns Donald's tailfeathers.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Donald Duck #71 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Dell Four Color #1099 Donald Duck Album

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Daisy Duck; Grandma Duck; Gyro Gearloose
Synopsis: Donald tries to get a family photo, but is flummoxed by the unusual setup.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Four Color #1099 Donald Duck Album (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #237

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: By offering pieces of bread, the boys attract fish, while fisherman Donald does not.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #237 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #238

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Donald and the boys enjoy a walk on the beach wearing heavily patched inner-tubes.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #238 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #72

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Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: The Ducks enjoy corn on the cob, with the boys each gobbling one section of a single cob.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Donald Duck #72 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #240

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Donald and the boys share an umbrella, with poor Donald bearing the brunt of the load.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #240 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #73

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck
Synopsis: Donald multitasks a breakfast preparation.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #241

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie share a toothache.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #241 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Dell Four Color #1140 Donald Duck Album

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Donald tries to get a formal photo of his nephews, while one of the boys takes aim at the "watching birdie" with a slingshot.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Four Color #1140 Donald Duck Album (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #242

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Officer Donald writes out a traffic ticket to his nephews in their toy car.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #242 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo. Barks would expand on this gag, including a Beagle Boy getting away with a bank robbery while Donald resolutely writes his nephew a ticket, for the cover of Donald Duck (Western, 1962 Series) #126 (July 1969). https://www.comics.org/issue/22866/
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Dell Giant #38 Walt Disney's Uncle Donald and His Nephews Family Fun

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Daisy Duck; Grandma Duck
Synopsis: Each member of the Duck family indulges in the reading preference of their choice.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Giant #38 Walt Disney's Uncle Donald and His Nephews Family Fun (1960) including the original Dell Giant publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #243

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie use a snow shovel as a triple-wide sled.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #243 (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Dell Giant #39 Walt Disney's Merry Christmas

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Donald's super-long Christmas stocking peeves his nephews, who've put up one short-sock each.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Giant #39 Walt Disney's Merry Christmas (1960) including the original Dell Giant publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: "Hammocks at Sea" Unpublished Cover Intended for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: On board a ship, Donald and the boys rest in "bunk-style sailors' hammocks".
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Disclose Notes: An unpublished cover illustration that Carl Barks intended for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, circa 1960. No inks and no colors
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Cover Gallery: "Hammocks at Sea" Unpublished Cover Intended for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories ("finished version")

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: On board a ship, Donald and the boys rest in "bunk-style sailors' hammocks".
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Disclose Notes: An unpublished cover illustration that Carl Barks intended for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, circa 1960 - simulated by Gary Leach to appear as it would have looked as a completed and published cover. Inks, colors and logo added.
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Story Notes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Synopsis: Observations and analysis from Disney comics scholars and historians on each story in this volume.
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Disclose Notes: Individual articles are authored as follows:

Stefano Priarone on "Balloonatics".

Alberto Becattini on "Froggy Farmer" and "The Fraidy Falcon".

Thad Komorowski on "The Dog-Sitter" and "Turkey Trouble".

Matthias Wivel on "Mystery of the Loch" and "Missile Fizzle".

Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano on "The Village Blacksmith".

Rich Kreiner on "Rocks to Riches".

Daniel Yezbick on "Grandma Duck", "The Whole Herd of Help", "The Day the Farm Stood Still", "The Training Farm Fuss", and "The Reversed Rescue".

J. Michael Catron on "The Junior Woodchucks".

Joe Torcivia on "Peril of the Black Forest", "Whale of a Good Deed", "Let Sleeping Bones Lie", "Bad Day for Troop 'A'", and "Life Savers".
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Carl Barks Life Among the Ducks

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Genres: biography
Character(s): Carl Barks (in 1982 photo)
First Line: "I was a real misfit," Carl Barks said, thinking back over an early life of hard labor - as a farmer, a logger, a mule-skinner, a rivet heater, and a printing press feeder - before he was hired as a full-time cartoonist for an obscure risqué magazine...
Synopsis: A biography of Carl Barks.
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Contributors

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Genres: biography
Synopsis: Brief biographies of the various feature contributors to this volume.
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Two repurposed Barks illustrations from the story "Rocks to Riches" round out page two of this feature. Uncle Scrooge from page 10, panel 6, and Donald Duck and the nephews from page 10, panel 7.
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Where Did These Duck Stories First Appear?

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First Line: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library collects Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories by Carl Barks that were originally published in the traditional American four-color comic book format.
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The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

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Feature(s): Fantagraphics Books: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
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A Looney Balloon, a Space Saboteur - and a New Woodchuck Series

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Castaway (timid falcon); Carl Barks (photo inset)
First Line: When Gyro Gearloose inflates a ten-story tall Donald Duck balloon (too big for any Thanksgiving Day parade) Donald decides to take a ride.
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Disclose Notes: This back cover image is a composite of Barks illustrations from the story "The Fraidy Falcon" - page 9, panel 7 (falling food items), page 9, panel 8 (Donald Duck), and page 10, panel 1 (Castaway the falcon).

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