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Issue: Four Color #29
Publication Date: September 1943
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Issues: #29 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/17/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Carl Buettner (art director)
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK AND THE MUMMY'S RING, No. 29." Code number is D.D.O.S. #29 439. Copyright 1943 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
On-sale date is publication date in Library of Congress copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Carl Buettner
Inker(s): Carl Buettner
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Comics Digest #44 [Gold Key] published December 1973
as Donald Duck and The Mummy's Ring [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #9 published April 2005
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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3 Big Stories

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Buettner
Inker(s): Carl Buettner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey, and Louie
Synopsis: Donald puts up wall posters with the story titles on them.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
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Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): Carl Barks
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Black Pete
Synopsis: Huey is trapped inside a mummy case and taken to Egypt by emissaries of the Bey El Dagga, who is restoring life in his province to the way it was in ancient times. Donald and the other two nephews follow Huey by getting jobs on the ship carrying the mummy case, and later sailing a felucca up the Nile to the Bey's domain.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck #1 published June 1965
as Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Comics Digest #44 [Gold Key] published December 1973
as Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #1 published July 1984
as The Mummy's Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #14 [Direct] published August 1989
as The Mummy's Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCarl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color #2 published February 1994
as Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #9 published April 2005
as O Anel da Múmia [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
Disclose Notes: Art submitted on May 10, 1943. "Chris Couch, who worked with Barks as a story man at the Disney studio, is caricatured on a wanted poster on the seventh page of this story." Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
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"The Hard Loser"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): Carl Barks
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis: Donald and the nephews are rivals in the "Screwball Derby," a cross-country horse race in which any dirty trick may be played on the other contestants.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #1 published July 1984
as The Hard Loser [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck Comics Digest #1 [Direct] published November 1986
as The Hard Loser [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] #[1987] published January 1987
as Dårlig taper [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories #551 [Direct Edition] published September 1990
as The Hard Loser [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCarl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color #2 published February 1994
as The Hard Loser [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #12/2001 published March 2001
as Dårlig taper [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #10 published April 2005
as O Mau Perdedor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Art submitted on May 29, 1943. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). Barks reworked this story for Chuckwagon Derby in Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #34.
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"Too Many Pets"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Barks; Merrill de Maris (plot)
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): Carl Barks
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Jingo
Synopsis: An organ grinder gives the nephews a monkey named Jingo, who plays hob with Donald's house until Donald sells him to a stranger. The stranger proves to be a foreign spy who tries to use Jingo to steal some secret plans.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #1 published July 1984
as Too Many Pets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] #[1986] published September 1986
as For mange kjæledegger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck Comics Digest #1 [Direct] published November 1986
as Too Many Pets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDisney Comics Album #7 published November 1990
as Too Many Pets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCarl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color #2 published February 1994
as Too Many Pets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #9 published April 2005
as Invasão de Animais [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Spring Fever #2 published April 2008
as Too Many Pets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 26
Disclose Notes: Barks was given a half-outlined plot by de Maris and polished the gags and lengthened the story. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). (Barrier's synopsis says Donald gives the monkey to a stranger, but he actually sells him for 50 cents.)
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Donald Gets His Picture Taken

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Carl Buettner
Inker(s): Carl Buettner
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck
Synopsis: While Donald is having his portrait taken, the cameraman holds a miniature version of Donald to look at.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
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Closing the Book

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Buettner
Inker(s): Carl Buettner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Carl Buettner ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey, and Louie
Synopsis: Donald is on a ladder closing the book.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Reference is made by a nephew to a plot point in Sequence 2.

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