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Issue: Gladstone Comic Album Special #5
Publication Date: May 1990
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Issues: #5 of 7 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGladstone
Brand: Gladstone GiantView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 100
ISBN: 0944599303
UPC/EAN: 978094459930390000
Price: $16.70 CAD
$11.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; color interior
Dimensions: 8.75" wide x 11" high
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; white paper interior
Binding: perfect bound
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The Gilded Man

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; El Dorado the Gilded Man
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: [painting sketch]
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Blank Pages

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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.
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Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures The Gilded Man

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Donald Duck
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Disclose Notes: Title page with illustration.
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: The year 1952 was a watershed for Carl Barks...
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Donald Duck and The Gilded Man

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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]interior
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Pages: 1
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Stable Prices

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge
First Line: I need exercise, nephew! I want to rent a horse!
Synopsis: Scrooge complains about the price at Donald's riding stable.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #422 published September 1952
was Stable Prices [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art submitted on January 3, 1952. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).

Title becomes official with its printing in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 Series) #11 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012).
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Donald Duck and The Gilded Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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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Donald Duck and The Pixilated Parrot

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Polly the Parrot
Synopsis: Donald and the boys find Polly the Parrot inside Uncle Scrooge's vault, tallying on an adding machine.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #282 published July 1950
was Donald Duck and The Pixilated Parrot [Illustration on Cover, Front]interior
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Armored Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy's cat
First Line: What's the long underwear for, Unca Donald?
Synopsis: Donald puts on sturdy clothing to bring Daisy's cat down from a telephone pole.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #422 published September 1952
was Armored Rescue [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Disclose Notes: Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).

Title becomes official with its printing in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 Series) #11 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012).
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The Pixilated Parrot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Polly the Parrot; sailor (Polly's owner); two black-masked burglars (proto Beagle Boys?); angry old lady; ship's mate; female parrot; kid parrots; hamburger joint owner
First Line: Oh boy! Ships from! The seven seas!
Synopsis: Donald gives Uncle Scrooge a parrot that only counts, instead of talking, and Scrooge has the parrot memorize the combination to his safe; which Scrooge has been forgetting. However the parrot first gives the combination to two burglars and then flies away to a boat bound for Latin America.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #282 published July 1950
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Pages: 22
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Courtside Heating

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Donald clears a tennis court from snow using electric blankets.
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck #45 published January 1956
was Courtside Heating [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Crafty Corner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Unca Donald! You've painted yourself into a corner!
Synopsis: Donald literally paints himself into a corner.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #422 published September 1952
was Crafty Corner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art submitted on January 31, 1952. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).

Title becomes official with its printing in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 Series) #11 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012).
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Secret of Hondorica

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Gladstone Gander
Synopsis: Donald and his nephews travel to Central America to recover Uncle Scrooge's papers from crashed airplane. However, Gladstone Gander, thinking that Donald is on a treasure hunt, follows Donald and his nephews in an attempt to arrive first at the location and collect the reward.
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck #46 published March 1956
was Secret of Hondorica [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
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The Runaway Train

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v17 #3 (195) published December 1956
was The Runaway Train [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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Collect the Complete Series of Gladstone Walt Disney Comic Albums

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Gladstone
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Disclose Notes: Color ad on back cover. Promo for back issues of Gladstone Comic Albums and Comic Album Specials.

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