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Issue: Donald Duck #246
Publication Date: October 1986
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Issues: #246 of 62 Issues (113 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
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Publisher: FlagGladstone
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
On Sale Date: 06/10/1986
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #96.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Donald Duck and The Gilded Man

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; El Dorado the Gilded Man
Synopsis: Clutching a coveted mailsack, Donald and the boys flee from the towering figure of El Dorado the Gilded Man.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #422 published September 1952
was Donald Duck and The Gilded Man [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover illustrates the issue's lead story.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A Gander at Gladstone
First Line: As long-time Disney fans may know ...
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Donald Duck and The Gilded Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; Philo T. Ellic (rich stamp collector); various stamp collectors; old man in canoe; El Dorado the Gilded Man
First Line: British Guiana, rich in lore of buccaneer days, is famous for its steaming jungles and mighty rivers; its man-eating fish and savage voodoo cults, but it is more famous because of a stamp!
Synopsis: The ducks go to British Guiana in search of the world's rarest stamp, a one-cent magenta of 1856, and find it on a letter in the possession of El Dorado, a giant golden Indian. After they retrieve the letter, the ducks learn that it is addressed to a deceased Duckburg resident who named Gladstone her only heir.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #422 published September 1952
was Donald Duck and The Gilded Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Mickey Mouse (Dell, 1952 Series) #74 (October-November 1960) offered "The Rare Stamp Search", a 15-page remake of the 32-page Duck adventure "The Gilded Man" starring the Mouse and his nephews Morty and Ferdie, copied in many places panel-for-panel and word-for-word, though omitting any business with "El Dorado, the Gilded Man" in favor of a different ending. https://www.comics.org/issue/15893/#126599

In the remake, Mickey describes the sought-after mail sack from the year 1856 as being "96 years old." (Page 11, panel 5) 1856 plus 96 adds up to 1952, original publication year for "The Gilded Man" - not 1960, publication year for "The Rare Stamp Search".

This error was further forwarded in a 1975 reprint of "The Rare Stamp Search" in Mickey Mouse (Western, 1962 Series) #156 (June 1975) https://www.comics.org/issue/28714/ where the dialogue was left unchanged.

The Mickey Mouse remake was itself further remade as "The Rare Reward" for Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #1151 Mickey Mouse Album (November 1960-January 1961) https://www.comics.org/issue/15968/ with a length of only eight pages and a more condensed ending.

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