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Issue: Donald Duck #134
Publication Date: November 1970
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Issues: #134 of 161 Issues (242 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/1970
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10037-011.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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The Lost Peg Leg Mine

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis: Donald shines a flashlight on two saddlebags of gold in The Lost Peg Leg Mine.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck #230 published August 1981
as The Lost Peg Leg Mine [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New cover illustrating a reprinted interior story. Cover illustrates the issue's lead story.
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Giant Play Zoo Animal Collection

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Colonial Studios
First Line: 20 loveable animals to delight the heart of every child!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering 20 figures of zoo animals, made of "rubbery washable plastic", for one dollar. Color ad on inside front cover.
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The Lost Peg Leg Mine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; hypnotist; pack rats
First Line: Gee, Unca Donald! Wasn't that a swell movie?
Synopsis: A movie, followed by a session of hypnosis, causes Scrooge to recall the path to a lost gold mine. Once there, the Ducks have problems with nugget-trading pack rats.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck #52 published March 1957
was The Lost Peg Leg Mine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand".
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Scientific Lifesaving

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Goofy; various beachgoers; non-imperiled swimmer; imperiled swimmer; school of fish; fishermen
First Line: What is it... A fish or a mermaid? Ha! Ha!
Synopsis: Lifeguard Goofy applies his own peculiar methods and approach to lifesaving. ...Everybody, clear the beach!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck #230 published August 1981
as Scientific Lifesaving [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: New story.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Holloway; Slo-Poke; Milk Duds; Black Cow
First Line: Boys! Girls! Here are 2 special offers worth cheering about from Holloway
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering a “Pro-size football or girl’s cheerleader Jersey” for $2.00 and two wrappers from Holloway’s Slo-Poke or Black Cow, or two box-panels from Milk Duds.
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Gold Key Comics Club News

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics Club
Character(s): Ed Huddles; Bubba McCoy; Marge Huddles; Penny McCoy; Pom-Pom Huddles (baby); Claude Pertwee; Beverly (a cat)
First Line: Exclusive! Only Gold Key brings you the new lineup of Hanna-Barbera comics
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A look at many of the Gold Key Comics on sale in October 1970, highlighting the comic book adaptation of Hanna-Barbera's "Where's Huddles?". Also focus blurbs on UFO Flying Saucers, Yosemite Sam, Dark Shadows, Walt Disney’s Christmas Parade, Wacky Witch, The Hardy Boys, Turok Son of Stone, and Tarzan of the Apes. No issue numbers are given.

Middle left page of centerfold.
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Papua and New Guinea Flora and Fauna Series

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Stamp and Coin Collector’s Corner
First Line: Beautiful Birds of Paradise are featured on a set of four stamps in the new “flora and fauna” series.
Synopsis: Discusses Papua and New Guinea's flora and fauna series of stamps, stamps honoring the British Red Cross to be issued throughout the British Commonwealth, a notice that “the definitive decimal stamps issued by the Smith regime in Rhodesia” are not valid as postage, and a coin issued by the Bank of Israel to commemorate “the 22nd Independence Day – 1970”. With Black and white photos of two Papua and New Guinea stamps. Middle right page of centerfold.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text feature, illustrated with photographs. © 1970, Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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Reader's Page Monsters

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics Club
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Five drawings of monsters submitted by readers.
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Corn Snatchers

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Li'l Bad Wolf; Big Bad Wolf [Zeke Wolf]; Three Little Pigs [Practical Pig; Fifer Pig; Fiddler Pig]; Farmer Brown; three unnamed members of the Foulfellows Club
First Line: The Three Little Pigs awoke early one morning to a loud banging on their door and an angry voice shouting , "Open up! I'll teach you thieving critters to snatch my corn!"
Synopsis: Zeke and his fellow Foulfellows steal Farmer Brown's corn and frame the Three Little Pigs for the theft.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New story.
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Smoke Writer in the Sky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; crowd of jeering onlookers; postman
First Line: Our Unca Donald is the best smoke-writer Duckburg ever saw!
Synopsis: Running for public office, Scrooge hires skywriter Donald to draw attention to his otherwise lackluster campaign. Donald succeeds in "drawing attention" - but of the wrong kind!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v17 #2 (194) published November 1956
was Smoke Writer in the Sky [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand".

One of the stories referred to collectively as "The Brittle Mastery of Donald Duck", a series of stories by Carl Barks where Donald is the-best-there-is at something... until he's not, usually involving some disaster.
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The Escalator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Did you call me, boys?
Synopsis: Donald's nephews play "escalator" with Donald by pulling the stairway carpet under his feet.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck #30 published July 1953
was The Escalator [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Your Future as an Oceanographer/As an Interior Designer and Decorator

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Golden Comics Club
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Two half page articles on possible careers accompanied by illustrations. © 1970, Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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Charlie Chocks and the Beaver Builders

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Miles Laboratories, Inc.; Chocks Multiple Vitamins
Character(s): Charlie Chocks; parrot; boy; girl; Beaver Builders
First Line: Why’s the Chocksmobile swimming up the river, Charlie Chocks?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Chocks Multiple Vitamins from Miles Laboratories, Inc. On final interior page of the comic.
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Make Money Get Prizes

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): American Specialty Co.
First Line: with fast selling 75-cent Christmas Packs
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for American Specialty Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Christmas card packs. Six kids with quotes endorsing this enterprise are seen in black and white photos. Color ad on inside back cover.
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Good Grief, Janie!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kenner; Super Easy-Bake Oven
First Line: We forgot about your cake!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color ad on back cover. Ad in comic form for Super Easy-Bake Oven by Kenner, with an actual 20-minute clock timer.

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