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Issue: Donald Duck #230
Publication Date: August 1981
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Issues: #230 of 161 Issues (242 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: WhitmanView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/18/1981
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint.

First issue of the Whitman series to run no advertising on its 32 interior pages. Beginning with this issue, all advertising is restricted to Whitman Comics house ads only, and is limited to the inside front, inside back, and back covers. All future issues, to the end of the Whitman run in 1984, will have 32 interior pages of comics or comics-related text material.
On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
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Cover, Front
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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
From Content Item: FlagDonald Duck #134 published November 1970
was The Lost Peg Leg Mine [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover illustrates the issue's lead story.
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Doctor Solar Man of the Atom

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: A scientist caught in the fury of an atomic accident… is changed into a being with fantastic powers!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Whitman house ad for Doctor Solar Man of the Atom. Color ad on inside front cover.
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Donald Duck and 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: This story predates the cover drawn to illustrate it by over a dozen years. Spring 1957 and fall 1970, respectively. Both are reprints to this 1981 issue.
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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
From Content Item: FlagDonald Duck #134 published November 1970
was Scientific Lifesaving [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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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: 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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Vacation at Grandma's

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; Grandma Duck
First Line: Gangway!
Synopsis: Grandma Duck has planned a treasure hunt for the vacationing Huey, Dewey, and Louie, leading to a prize for the kids but with an extra added advantage for herself.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Picnic Party #6 [unnamed variant] published July 1955
was Vacation at Grandma's [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Daffy Duck

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: He’ll quack you up in Whitman Comics
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Whitman house ad for Daffy Duck. Reproduces the cover illustration for Daffy Duck (Western, 1962 series) #114 April 1978. Color ad on inside back cover.
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Meet your favorite comic characters and enjoy exciting adventure in... Whitman Comics.

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Whitman Comics
First Line: Fun for everyone!!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Whitman Comics. No characters or properties are pictured. Color ad on back cover.

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