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Maharajah Donald

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis: As a new maharajah, Donald struts his stuff before his nephews.

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Notes: This cover image is a composite of Barks illustrations from the story "Maharajah Donald" page 14, panel 6, page 14, panel 7, and page 11, panel 7.

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Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks

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Character(s): Donald Duck

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Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie

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Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Maharajah Donald" by Carl Barks

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Character(s): Donald Duck

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Notes: A Donald Duck head inside a circle, added to the middle of the Donald Duck logo. Lists "Fantagraphics Books Seattle" as publisher.

Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Maharajah Donald" by Carl Barks

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Character(s): Donald Duck

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Maharajah Donald

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Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Piggy (pig-boy with glasses); kid with kite; Joe (monkey-kid); sailor's kid; jeweler; pearl-buying rich guy; ship's purser; ship's captain; Maharajah of Hoopadoola; maharajah's aide; maharajah's servant; the Mogul Elephant; Bumpay Royal Tax Collector; Bumpay Regal Compiler of the Deficit; various officials of Bumpay; tigers; bearded old man; man with minah bird; British traveler; Bumpay stadium broadcaster

First Line: Come here, kids! I want you to clean out this garage!

Synopsis: Starting with a mere pencil stub, and through an unlikely series of events, Huey, Dewey, and Louie trade-up to a steamship ticket to India, which Donald gloms for himself forcing the boys to stow away on the very same ship. Aboard ship and facing consequences for unknowingly harboring his stowaway nephews, Donald meets the wealthy Maharajah of Hoopadoola, who offers to resolve the Ducks' matters with the steamship line for a favor in return. The favor? Riding an old, gentle, sacred elephant across a narrow river to a neighboring kingdom. What possible harm could there be in such a gesture?

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Pages: 28

Notes: As in some early Barks stories, Donald is portrayed as living in Burbank, California, rather than Duckburg, Calisota.

Seals Are So Smart

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; baby seal; zoo keeper; papa seal

First Line: Will you play ball with us, Unca Donald?

Synopsis: The nephews play ball at the beach with a baby seal, and this sets Donald to dreaming of how much money he could make with a trained seal act.

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Pages: 10

The Terror of the River!!

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Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; auctioneer; auction house bouncer; flooded-out couple on rooftop; Hogan (harbor man); skeptical sheriff; captain of the Creole Belle riverboat; The Scarer

First Line: Ka-choo! ...Brr! It's cold today! I'll sit in this auction a while and warm up my old bones!

Synopsis: Donald's sneezes at an auction are mistaken for bids on a houseboat and soon he and the nephews are sailing down the Ohio River. There they encounter a huge serpent, which they later learn is an elaborate submarine whose captain gets his pleasure from scaring people.

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Biceps Blues

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Daisy Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; sporting goods salesman; Deltoid Biceppa; Susy Swan

First Line: How come you're reading a muscle magazine, Daisy?

Synopsis: Daisy goes wild over Deltoid Biceppa, Susy Swan's muscular boyfriend, so Donald tries lifting weights to build himself up. When this fails, the nephews try to help... without Donald's knowledge.

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Pages: 10

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The Smugsnorkle Squattie

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Siwash [Grand Genius III of Old Siwash]; Herbert; Tagalong (Herbert's puppy)

First Line: Unca' Donald, Herbert wants to give us a puppy!

Synopsis: The nephews bring home a bright mongrel puppy, but Donald will have only a Smugsnorkle Squattie, the world's smartest dog with a mile-long pedigree.

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Pages: 10

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Donald may be so dazzled by his dog's impressive pedigree that he initially refers to it as a "Smugsnorkle Squatty" on page 2, panel 4 - then settling on the more familiar "Smugsnorkle Squattie" later on the same page (page 2, panel 7) and page 3, panels 1-2. Yet, he returns to "Squatty" on page 8, panel 8.

The nephews' one and only reference to Siwash's breed - on page 2, panel 5 - is as a "Smugsnorkle Squattie".

META MOMENT: In the story's opening panel, Donald reads a copy of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories with a partial image of Mickey Mouse on the cover. The Walt Disney's Comics and Stories logo is consistent with the logo used at the time of this story's original printing in 1946.

Santa's Stormy Visit!

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; albatross; captain of the Queen Veronica; officer of the Queen Veronica

First Line: Golly! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve!

Synopsis: An albatross first fouls-up and then later saves Christmas for the lighthouse-keeping Ducks.

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Swimming Swindlers

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Butch (punk kid); two other nameless punk kids

First Line: Aw, gee! Unca' Donald always beats us at swimming!

Synopsis: On the advice of a young tough named Butch, the nephews cheat to beat Donald in a swimming race. Given the unusual nature of the boys' association with (and the influence of) a gang of punk kids, Donald prevails, teaching the boys a valuable lesson about both cheating and falling in with the wrong crowd - and literally saving their lives to boot.

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Pages: 10

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In a change of pace from the norm, this story casts Donald in the role of the "good parent" he often tries to be, but rarely becomes in actuality.

Playin' Hookey

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; freight train brakeman; train dispatcher; goats; lady in house

First Line: Time to get up! I must start the kids to fall term of school!

Synopsis: The nephews play hooky on the first day of school and catch a freight train for Pickleburg, with Donald hot on their trail.

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Pages: 10

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The Gold-Finder

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck; jeweler

First Line: One more screw to put in and it's done!

Synopsis: One of the nephews invents a "gold-finder", leading to all sorts of trouble over Donald's birthday present for Daisy.

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Pages: 10

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Turkey Turmoil

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; raffle drawing officials; Raffles (a turkey); runner of the Southside Good Joes' Turkey Shoot; Southside Good Joes' turkey; Donald's neighbor (not Neighbor Jones)

First Line: Gloom! Gloom! Gloom!

Synopsis: The nephews win a Thanksgiving turkey in a raffle, but refuse to let Donald kill it, so Donald enters a crooked turkey shoot. With the sly assistance of the boys, Donald wins the rigged turkey shoot and wins a turkey of his own... which fights him to a standstill. Who will eat what on Thanksgiving Day?

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Pages: 10

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Barks Self-Reference: A can in Donald's pantry reads "Barks Dog Soup" page 4, panel 2.

Future Don Rosa Reference?: A can in Donald's pantry reads "Oolated Squiggs" page 4, panel 4, possibly influenced Don Rosa's story "Oolated Luck" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 Series) #528 (April 1988). https://www.comics.org/issue/44266/#246086

Since Carl Barks would not create the ultra-lucky Gladstone Gander until Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 Series) #88 (January 1948), thirteen issues from this issue, Huey, Dewey, and Louie find a winning raffle ticket... and actually get to keep it! https://www.comics.org/issue/6465/#64439

GOOD BIT: Donald is a really bad shot. He asks the nephews if he hit one of the dummy targets:

DONALD: "Did one of the dummies fall over?"
HUEY: "No, but several people"
DEWEY: "On that golf course"
LOUIE: "Dove into a sand trap!"

The Cantankerous Cat

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Bolivar (dog); yowling cat; Daisy Duck (cameo, image in picture frame)

First Line: We need some fresh fish for the table! I'll take the kids and go fishing early tomorrow morning!

Synopsis: Donald befriends a yowling stray cat that keeps the ducks awake all night before they are to get up early and go fishing.

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Pages: 10

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Donald Duck's Atom Bomb

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Professor Molecule; Professor Sleezy; various citizens of Duckburg; various Duckburg police

First Line: One jigger of mashed meteors... Two spoons of comet dust... Juice of one lightning bolt... Stir in ten cat hairs...

Synopsis: Donald invents what he calls an "atom bomb" that goes "fut" instead of "boom", but can't figure out what the bomb can do. Two professors, experts in the field of explosives, are summoned to inspect Donald's handiwork. One of them, Professor Sleezy a foreign spy, steals the bomb and accidentally ignites it causing a unique problem for the population of Duckburg.

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Pages: 10

Notes: The original story was published at 30 pages, in a "single tier per page" format. This reprint was reformatted to ten standard pages.

Going Buggy

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; costume shop proprietor; editor of Daily Gab newspaper; newspaper photographer; mayor of Duckburg; crowd of excited citizens; Throckmorton; Mrs. Throckmorton

First Line: What luck! There are bugs on my vegetables!

Synopsis: The nephews wear bug costumes to make Donald believe his home-brewed bug spray makes things grow to giant size. Donald's method of reprisal, fighting back in a big black bird costume, gives him momentary satisfaction but ultimately becomes a buckshot pain in his tailfeathers.

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Pages: 10

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The Peaceful Hills

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; bear; eagle

First Line: Unca Donald, will you take us to the movies?

Synopsis: Shunning his nephews' choice of entertainment, loud western movies with "blazing sixguns" and "thundering hooves", Donald opts for a hike in the peaceful hills "peopled only by the quiet, friendly creatures of the wild"... and is sorry he did.

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Pages: 2

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Jam Robbers

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Clipski the stockbroker (voice on phone only); delivery man; J. Pluto Cratt (oil tycoon); burglar

First Line: Burglars are active in town again! Five more homes were robbed last night!

Synopsis: Donald is about to burn what he believes to be some worthless oil stock, when a call from his broker informs him that a client is willing to pay $1,000 for the shares. Previously unconcerned over the string of burglaries in his neighborhood, Donald now panics and buys a heavy safe to protect the stocks until the sale is completed. Angered at the boys sneaking jam from the cupboard, Donald also locks the jar of jam in the safe for good measure... and forgets the combination.

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Pages: 10

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Picnic Tricks

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Daisy Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

First Line: Rumble on, buxom bumble bee!

Synopsis: Donald refuses to take the nephews with him on a picnic with Daisy, so they sabotage the food and the picnic site.

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GOOD BITS: Donald strains and struggles to write a romantic poem to recite to Daisy on their picnic:

DONALD: "Rumble on, buxom bumble bee! Go sit on a cowslip - far from me! Eftsoon the merry swallows come! And doves with titmice choose to chum --"

Dewey expresses far more creative cleverness than his above-quoted uncle when describing his efforts to sabotage Donald's poetry reading:

DEWEY: "...What's going to happen to his POETRY when he breathes this peppered dust SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A DOGGEREL!"

The Bill Collectors

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; manager of Ajax Collection Agency; Scarpuss McKnucks; Bassofoglio the Human Bat

First Line: You're hired, Mr. Duck! I'm sure you'll make a fine bill collector!

Synopsis: Donald becomes a bill collector, dragooning the nephews into becoming his reluctant assistants. When Donald bails on the job, leaving the boys to do the dirty work, they are delighted to find that the next deadbeat on the list is Donald himself.

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Pages: 9

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Original story page three, where Donald successfully collects a bill from a racially-stereotypical circus attraction "Wild Woman of Borneo", is removed from this reprint. The page structure neatly allows for the page to be omitted and not disrupt the flow of the story.

Cover Gallery: Back Cover to The Carl Barks Library Volume 7 Book 3

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Daisy Duck

Synopsis: On a picnic, Donald recites poetry to Daisy.

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Notes: Image reprinted from the back cover of The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 Series) Volume 7 Book 3 (March 1988).

Repurposed art originally from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 Series) #79 (April 1947) - Story "Picnic Tricks" page 3, panel 9.

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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Pages: 15

Notes: Individual articles are authored as follows:

Francesco Stajano on "Maharajah Donald" and "Seals Are So Smart".

Daniel Yezbick on "The Terror of the River" and "Going Buggy".

Thad Komorowski on "Biceps Blues" and "Jam Robbers".

Joe Torcivia on "The Smugsnorkle Squattie", "Swimming Swindlers", and "The Peaceful Hills".

Rich Kreiner on "Santa's Stormy Visit", "Turkey Turmoil", and "Picnic Tricks".

Matthias Wivel on "Playin' Hookey" and "The Gold Finder".

Alberto Becattini on "The Cantankerous Cat" and "The Bill Collectors".

Stefano Priarone on "Donald Duck's Atom Bomb".

Cover Gallery: Cover to The Carl Barks Library Volume 7 Slipcase

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Character(s): Donald Duck

Synopsis: Fireman Donald first-responds with his fire ax.

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Notes: Image reprinted from the slipcase cover of The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 Series) #7 (March 1988).

Repurposed art originally from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #86 (November 1947) - Story "Fireman Donald" page 4, panel 2.

Between pages 1 and 2 of Story Notes.

Cover Gallery: Front Cover to The Carl Barks Library Volume 7 Book 3

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck

Synopsis: Donald dances lively to the music from his hi-fi.

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Notes: Image reprinted from the front cover of The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 Series) Volume 7 Book 3 (March 1988).

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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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Notes: Feature contributors supply their own biographies.

Where Did These Duck Stories First Appear?

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

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Notes: A compiled listing of original first appearances of the stories reprinted in this volume.

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

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Feature(s): Fantagraphics Books: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

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Notes: Publisher's ad promoting "The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library", as well as "Disney Masters" and other related books.

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A real maharajah! A giant sea serpent! And Christmas - without Santa?

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Carl Barks (photo inset)

First Line: Donald's nephews start with an old pencil stub and trade up until they get -- a ticket to India! There, the locals acclaim Donald "Maharajah Donald."

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Notes: This back cover image is a composite of repurposed Barks illustrations from the stories "Maharajah Donald" (page 3, panel 3 [reversed] and page 21, panel 2 [as published]) and "Donald Duck's Atom Bomb" (page 1, panel 3 [reversed]).