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Issue: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #27
Publication Date: November 2002
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Issues: #27 of 27 Issues
Title: Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Duck Luck
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/29/2022
Volume: 27
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781683966531
UPC/EAN: 978168396653153500
Price: $35.00 USD
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Content Items: 54 (22 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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Duck Luck

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; Grandma Duck; Daisy Duck
Synopsis: Gladstone Gander presents Grandma Duck with a golden egg, while Daisy Duck looks on. Donald has just received a swift and painful kick in the rump.
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Disclose Notes: This cover image is a composite of Barks illustrations from the stories "Too Much Help" page 2, panel 6 and "Terrible Tourist" page 10, 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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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie
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Disclose Notes: Publisher information, editorial credits, indicia, and a single illustration of Huey, Dewey, and Louie repurposed from the story "Sitting High" - page 10, panel 3.
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Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Duck Luck" by Carl Barks

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Character(s): Donald Duck
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Contents

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Character(s): Magica De Spell
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[untitled]

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Duck Luck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; beat cop; Chinese fish merchant; motorist stuck in mud; patrol car cop; supermarket clerk
First Line: Yum, yum! That chop suey and chow yuk was the yukkiest!
Synopsis: Donald tries to debunk the predictions of a Chinese fortune cookie.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Script credit reads: "Uncredited script rewritten by Carl Barks".

Story references the Dismal Swamp, which would figure prominently in Barks' later "The Swamp of No Return" in Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 Series) #57 (May 1965).
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Sitting High

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Brigitte Van Doran; Gasmore Gravytrain; Jane Girlsfield; Snarlin Grando; Tallin De Saddle; trash-burning woman; local news photographer; Tripe Magazine photographer; celebrity-obsessed stampeding crowds
First Line: Among the many winter visitors in glamorous Palm Sands are Donald Duck and his nephews!
Synopsis: Donald tries various ways to achieve fame.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Celebrity parody names abound: "Snarlin Grando" = method actor Marlin Brando. "Jayne Girlsfield" = full and shapely actress Jayne Mansfield (with hair tresses drawn by Barks to mitigate or deemphasize her upper figure, perhaps in consideration of the Dell Comics Code). "Prince Raindeer and Princess Lace" = Monaco monarchs Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. "Brigitte Van Doren" = an amalgam of glamorous actress Brigitte Bardot and busty actress Mamie Van Doren.

Made up joke and pun names are liberally mixed in with the celebrity parody names, giving pause to modern readers less familiar with the celebrity culture of the late-1950s and early-1960s: "Tallin De Saddle", "Cuddles Marrymore", "Rocky Stonejaw", and a famous politician named "Gasmore Gravytrain".

Among the media focused on Donald on pages 3 and 4 is "Bathé News", a sendup of Pathé News, once a supplier of newsreels to movie theatres.
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The Madcap Mariner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Gyro Gearloose; crew of the Daffy-O; rival crews of cod fishing boats; codfish contest judge; reporters
First Line: Ducks are pawns and cod are kings in this briny tale of ice and fish in the roaring northern seas!
Synopsis: Aboard the good schooner Daffy-O, unseaworthy Donald, with the boys and a "lubber crew", must win the Fishermen's Gold Cup for Uncle Scrooge at the annual cod fishing competition... or else. While disadvantaged in almost every way, Scrooge has provided Donald with a "secret device" to compensate - the nature of which is unknown to Donald and his crew.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Originally submitted by Barks as a ten-page story, the equivalent of one full page has been edited out of Barks' submission for the original printed version and all subsequent reprints. Every printing of this story has been nine pages.
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Small Fryers

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; April; May; June
First Line: Dear Diary - My little nieces, April, May, and June, came to visit me the other day!
Synopsis: Daisy's nieces come to visit, and mess up her kitchen.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: While the feature logo on this story reads "Daisy Duck", it is actually an entry in the "Daisy Duck's Diary" series.
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Terrible Tourist

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; squad of Hondorican police; first senorita; second senorita; second senorita's papa; Conchita; the Duckburgian Consul to Hondorica
First Line: There are two kinds of tourists roaming foreign lands - the proper kind and -
Synopsis: Donald obsessively attempts to gather Latin American souvenirs and is most obsessed with getting a rose from a balcony-serenaded senorita as the ultimate prize.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Donald and the boys visit Hondorica, the locale of a previous adventure in Barks' earlier "Secret of Hondorica" in (Dell, 1952 Series) #46 (March-April 1956). https://www.comics.org/issue/12731/#106997

Serenading gags reworked from an originally unpublished story in which Donald aggressively serenades Neighbor Jones with Christmas Carols. The Neighbor Jones story has since been printed in various collections.
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Lost Frontier

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Captain Gadabout; mesa-dwelling cavemen
First Line: Look out, Captain Gadabout! That snowman will get you!
Synopsis: On a remote high mesa, Donald and the nephews discover cavemen.
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Stranger than Fiction

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; experimental mice; various Duckburg police; police psychiatrist; Old Satchel Face (alligator)
First Line: What nicer way could one spend a rainy day than curled up with a good book!
Synopsis: Donald expresses his displeasure with his nephews reading science fiction, but then decides to show them up with the help of Gyro and his transport-beaming invention.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Gyro's device which transmits people and objects "electronically along beams of cosmic rays" would seem to be a forerunner to the Transporter technology of Star Trek the Original Series (1966-1969), as well as its many sequels, and at the same time derivative of Al (David) Hedison's ill-fated transport device from "The Fly" (1956), and perhaps additional media and literary precursors.

In this story, Gyro's invention was inspired by a science fiction magazine article titled "Ten Seconds to Mars" by Spicer Willits. The fictional author is a combined tribute to the earliest readers/fans to make contact with Carl Barks - John Spicer and Bill Spicer (the latter an eventual letterer for Western Publishing) and Malcolm Willits.

Originally submitted by Barks as a ten-page story, the equivalent of one full page has been edited out of Barks' submission for the original printed version and all subsequent reprints. Every printing of this story has been nine pages.
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False Flattery

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; parrot; attractive female duck
First Line: Dear Diary - You just can't trust men - not even men parrots!
Synopsis: Daisy buys a parrot that compliments her, until he sees a more attractive option.
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Junior Woodchucks Singing and Celebrating

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Junior Woodchucks
Synopsis: A truckload of Junior Woodchucks sing as they roll merrily along.
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Disclose Notes: A green-colored silhouette illustration repurposed from "Saviors of the Lake" page 2, panel 4. Lower half of page.
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Boxed-In

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck
First Line: Man, what a day!
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie try their best to sabotage Daisy and Donald's "Box Social" picnic trip.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Per a previous indexer: "Barks rewrote a script sent to him by editor Chase Craig".
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Mr. Private Eye

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; mayor of Duckburg; Daisy Duck; The Beagle Boys; various Duckburg police; three bakers; King Notraks of Toolong Sarong
First Line: Great are the feats of fiction's clever detectives!
Synopsis: Showing great deductive skills when it comes to solving mysteries and "who-dun-its" in books and on TV, Donald decides to become a private eye. His first case is to protect a valuable hypnotic opal from being swiped at an outdoor ceremony held to present the opal to a visiting king.
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A Sticky Situation

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Donald Duck; Clarabelle Cow; Horace Horsecollar; April; May; June; tire-changing guy; logger; mountain climber; fireman; helicopter pilot;
First Line: Dear Diary - Men are BEASTS!
Synopsis: Daisy, fed up with Donald and men in general, takes her nieces camping in the wilderness. Finding themselves stuck atop a high peak, and rescued by men, they decide all men are not beasts - just Donald.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.
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Ring Leader Roundup

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Donald Duck; police lost-and-found clerk; Moe the Jeweler; "Foots" Diamond (jewel smuggler); two Duckburg cops
First Line: Dear Diary - Today I found a ring big enough to make a queen blink twice!
Synopsis: Daisy finds a lost ring that she uses to make Donald think that she has a another boyfriend, but the ring contains a midget radio used by diamond smugglers.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.
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Too Much Help

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Grandma Duck; Gladstone Gander; Gus Goose
First Line: Dear Diary - Usually a letter from Grandma Duck is very cheery reading material, and so was this particular letter - until I read between the lines!
Synopsis: Daisy, convinced that Grandma Duck is having trouble, takes Gladstone to her farm to bring her luck.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.
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Ruling the Roost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Uncle Scrooge; taxi driver; startled pedestrian; super jet elevator operator; Scrooge's guards; Scrooge's valet; McDuck Motorcar Company engineers; Loot Chute contractor; Miss Robin (Daisy's secretary); group of Scrooge's creditors; excited car-wives; dour car-husbands
First Line: Dear Diary - Being a secretary isn't easy, especially when your boos is Uncle Scrooge McDuck!
Synopsis: When Scrooge can't be found, Daisy makes decisions for him, until he's finally located stuck in a chute leading to his underground jewel vaults.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.
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Daringly Different

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Donald Duck; Gussie Fussy (Daisy's neighbor); Gyro Gearloose (cameo in silhouette only); reporter from "Hooray Home Magazine"; various other neighbors of Daisy)
First Line: Dear Diary - It suddenly dawned on me the other day that our civilization is becoming boring because everybody does everything just like everybody else!
Synopsis: Daisy tries to break out of cookie-cutter subdivision mold with unusual touches for her house and yard, but eventually all of her neighbors imitate her.
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Pages: 4.5
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April, May, and June Do Some Baking

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; April; May; June
Synopsis: Daisy's nieces seriously mess up her kitchen.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: A green-colored illustration repurposed from "Small Fryers" page 1, panel 4. Lower half of page.
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Friendly Enemy

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Donald Duck
First Line: Dear Diary - When I mentioned to Donald I was bored of late, he heartily suggested that I learn to skate!
Synopsis: Donald suggests roller skating and then sculpting to alleviate Daisy's boredom. Neither go as planned.
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Disclose Notes: No actual character dialogue occurs in this story. It is entirely narrated by Daisy's diary entries. Each of those diary entries ends in a rhyme, except the last one.
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Undercover Girl

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Clara Cluck; bird woman; pig woman
First Line: Dear Diary - One day I saw a hat that I simply had to have!
Synopsis: Daisy buys a new hat that's so big no one can see who she is.
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The Inventive Gentleman

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Daisy Duck; Gyro Gearloose; many bus riders
First Line: Dear Diary - I could tell from afar that the bus was quite overcrowded!
Synopsis: Gyro comes to Daisy's aid when she has to stand on the bus.
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Saviors of the Lake

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; other Junior Woodchucks; The Great C.O.O.L.H.E.A.D.; Uncle Scrooge
First Line: What gives the Junior Woodchucks the boundless vigor to do their mighty good deeds? One answer is -- Vitamin Zee!
Synopsis: When the Woodchucks' favorite ice-skating lake is ruined by pollution the befouled trail leads directly to Uncle Scrooge and his new automated factory, but what is Scrooge's secret product and how will the closing of the factory affect the Woodchucks in the end?
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Reprint Notes: Originally published in Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (Western, 1966 Series) #9 (April 1971) as "Looter of the Lake" with script by Carl Barks pencils, inks, and letters by John Carey. https://www.comics.org/issue/24188/#166498
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Pages: 13
Job Number: D 2006-237
Disclose Notes: Junior Woodchuck Leader Acronym: The Great C.O.O.L.H.E.A.D. (Calmer of Outbreaks, Outcries, Lamentations, Hassles, Expostulations, Animosity, and Disquietude).

Lettering credit is "Paul Baresh with Daan Jippes"
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Bottled Battlers

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; other Junior Woodchucks; The Great D.E.M.I.J.O.H.N.; Magica de Spell; various unhelpful passing motorists
First Line: It is early spring in Duckburg!
Synopsis: Magica de Spell imprisons roadside bottle picker-uppers Huey, Dewey, and Louie in a giant bottle and, quite cynically, not a single passing motorist stops to help the bottled boys.
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Reprint Notes: Originally published in Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (Western, 1966 Series) #10 (July 1971) with script by Carl Barks, pencils by Tony Strobl, and inks by Larry Mayer. https://www.comics.org/issue/24386/#167357
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Pages: 12
Job Number: H 94141
Disclose Notes: Junior Woodchuck Leader Acronym: The Great D.E.M.I.J.O.H.N. (Dynamic Earthshaking Molder of Immaculate Junk Obliterators Here and Now).
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Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; other Junior Woodchucks; The Great S.L.A.P.P.Y. P.A.P.P.Y.; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Littlest Chickadees; Auntie Chickadee (Chickadee leader); The Beagle Boys
First Line: Need I ask you Junior Woodchucks again to suggest ways we can raise money for our charity fund?
Synopsis: Everyone's out to get maple sap... from maple trees, or one another's sap buckets.
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Reprint Notes: Originally published in Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (Western, 1966 Series) #10 (July 1971) with script by Carl Barks, pencils by Tony Strobl, and inks by Larry Mayer. https://www.comics.org/issue/24386/#167356
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Junior Woodchuck Leader Acronym: The Great S.L.A.P.P.Y. P.A.P.P.Y. (Stern Advocator of Peanut-Picking Yard-masterism and Peerless Abecedarian Producer of Prideworthy Youth!).

The parenthetical portion of the title, (How Sweet It Is!), is a line made famous by comedian Jackie Gleason on his television variety show (1962-1966) and (1966-1970).

Carl Barks borrows his own opening-page gag from "Micro-Ducks from Outer Space" Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 Series) #65 (September 1966), where he piles money bags high enough (almost) to seal a broken window rather than buy a new pane of glass. https://www.comics.org/issue/20376/#149321
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Traitor in the Ranks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; other Junior Woodchucks; The Great B.R.A.S.S. G.A.S.S.E.R.; Donald Duck; The Great O.D.D. B.A.L.L.E.R.
First Line: Huey! Dewey! Wake up! This is training day for new recruits!...Wake up, I say!
Synopsis: To prevent his nephews from winning any more Junior Woodchuck medals (which have quite literally overrun the house), Donald tries to sabotage their efforts toward training new recruits by posing as a six-year-old aspiring Woodchuck with "an over-active digestion" to account for his size.
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Reprint Notes: Originally published in Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (Western, 1966 Series) #11 (October 1971) with script by Carl Barks, pencils by Tony Strobl, and inks by Larry Mayer. https://www.comics.org/issue/24590/#168395
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Pages: 13
Job Number: H 92085
Disclose Notes: Junior Woodchuck Leader Acronyms: The Great B.R.A.S.S. G.A.S.S.E.R. (Brain Rattling Assigner of Stupendous Sweatouts and Giver of Awesome Scathing Scoldings and Expurgatory Roustings), and The Great O.D.D. B.A.L.L.E.R. (Observer of Devious Doings and Bestower of Accolades and Limitless Laurels upon Entitled Recipients).
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Carl Barks Cover Gallery

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: 1960-1961 was a busy time for Carl Barks.
Synopsis: Introduction to the Carl Barks Cover Gallery.
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Pages: 1
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #247

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: It's "low-bridge" for Donald when the boys play paddleball.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #247 (1961) intact, except for the Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #77

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; bee
Synopsis: Donald discovers a bee flying inside his space helmet.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Donald Duck #77 (1961) intact, except for the Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #250

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie build a large and messy charcoal fire for Donald's backyard barbecue.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #250 (1961) intact, except for the Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #78

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck
Synopsis: Donald finds out what happens when a lawn mower meets a lawn sprinkler.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Donald Duck #78 (1961) intact, except for the Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #79

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck
Synopsis: Donald learns that you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Donald Duck #79 (1961) intact, except for the Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Dell Four Color #1239 Donald Duck Album

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Grandma Duck
Synopsis: The Ducks pose behind a bear rug, with Huey, Dewey, and Louie peeking out from beneath the rug.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Four Color #1239 Donald Duck Album (1961) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #80

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; canary
Synopsis: A canary joins Donald in his flute playing.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Donald Duck #80 (1961) intact, except for the Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #83

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie (only red-clad Huey's face is seen)
Synopsis: The boys help Donald march with a big bass drum.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Donald Duck #83 (1962) intact, except for the Dell Comics publisher's logo.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #295

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; woodpecker
First Line: At Uncle Scrooge's logging camp Donald gets in more jams than the logs. Read Timber Tycoon.
Synopsis: An angry woodpecker imperils Donald's lumberjacking.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #295 (1965) as originally published, with the Gold Key Comics logo, cover date, cover code, cover price, and all cover copy.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #296

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Daisy Duck; Mickey Mouse; Goofy; fish; disgruntled rabbit
Synopsis: Stage magician Donald gets his tricks mixed-up.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #296 (1965) as originally published, with the Gold Key Comics logo, cover date, cover code, cover price, and all cover copy.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #101

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Gyro Gearloose
First Line: Donald and his nephews fight off a fireball attack in an attempt to save The Incredible Golden Iceberg!
Synopsis: The Ducks and Gyro are imperiled by a deadly shower of fireballs.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Donald Duck #101 (1965) as originally published, with the Gold Key Comics logo, cover date, cover code, cover price, and all cover copy.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #298

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: The boys mess-up Donald's floor faster than he can vacuum.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #298 (1965) as originally published, with the Gold Key Comics logo, cover date, cover code, cover price, and all cover copy.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Donald Duck #103

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; The Beagle Boys
First Line: Treasure of Aztec-Land plus The Golden Galleon
Synopsis: Donald and his nephews run down the steps of an ancient Aztec pyramid, with the Beagle Boys in hot pursuit.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Donald Duck #103 (1965) as originally published, with the Gold Key Comics logo, cover date, cover code, cover price, and all cover copy.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #301

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: The boys' three fishing lines pull Donald out of his boat.
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #301 (1965) as originally published, with the Gold Key Comics logo, cover date, cover code, cover price, and all cover copy.
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Story Notes

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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:

Rich Kreiner on "Duck Luck" and "The Madcap Mariner".

Joe Torcivia on "Sitting High" and "Saviors of the Lake".

Alberto Becattini on "Terrible Tourist".

Matthias Wivel on "Lost Frontier".

Thad Komorowski on "Stranger Than Fiction".

Daniel Yezbick on "Boxed-In", "Mr. Private Eye", "Ring Leader Roundup", "Too Much Help", and The Daisy Duck One-Pagers (five individual stories).

Stefano Priarone on "A Sticky Situation" and "Bottled Battlers".

Roberta Gregory on "Ruling the Roost" and "Daringly Different".
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Joe Torcivia on "Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!)" and "Saviors of the Lake" -- Erroneously credited to Daniel Yezbick. A correction was published in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #28 Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge "Cave of Ali Baba" by Carl Barks. https://www.comics.org/issue/2539015/
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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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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: biography
Synopsis: Brief biographies of the various feature contributors to this volume.
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A repurposed Barks illustration of Donald Duck and the nephews from the story "Sitting High" (page 4, panel 8) rounds out page two of this feature.
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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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Now Available!

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Feature(s): Fantagraphics Books
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The covers of "Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection", "Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Bear Mountain Tales", "Donald Duck: Donald's Happiest Adventures", and "The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition" are produced.
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Icebergs at Sea, Gyro's Teleporter, and Captured by Cavemen!

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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck; April; May; June; Carl Barks (photo inset)
First Line: On the roaring North Seas, Donald and the boys are out to win the Fisherman's Gold Cup for Uncle Scrooge.
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Disclose Notes: This back cover image is a composite of repurposed Barks illustrations from the stories "The Madcap Mariner" (page 6, panel 1) and "A Sticky Situation" (page 6, panel 1).

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