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Issue: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #4
Publication Date: September 1990
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Issues: #4 of 38 Issues (64 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
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Publisher: FlagDisney
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Walt Disney Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1990
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: 1561150355
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.95 CAD
$1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: A "bee-themed issue", with three stories centering on the little stingers.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; white matte interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagDonald Duck & Co #41/1992 published October 1992 as Siste stikk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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The Bees Have It!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; boss bee-control officer; Gridley (subordinate bee-control officer); lots of bees
Synopsis: Dressed in a bee costume, Donald ducks a cannonball fired by two county bee-control officers.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Bees Have It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; grocer; various panicked citizens of Duckburg; chief beeologist; boss bee-control officer; Gridley (subordinate bee-control officer); lots of bees
First Line: Pass the Fudgie Wudgies, Unca Donald!
Synopsis: Donald is dead set on having a "proper prideful gentleman's breakfast", consisting of "a spot of tea, a touch of toast, and a dollop of honey". When there is no honey to be found on store shelves, Donald endures great pain and suffering in order to secure some wild honey directly from a hive of many aggressive bees.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Job Number: KD 0790
Disclose Notes: An unconventional use of both three-tiered panel pages and four-tiered panel pages by Van Horn.
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Bee-Keeper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; lots of bees
First Line: Gee Unca Donald, where'd you get the nifty beehive?
Synopsis: Donald provokes a hive of tame bees, just by "being Donald".
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Egmont (DK)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: D 5030
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The Traveling Trio

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck
First Line: Scram, urchins! Go play outside!
Synopsis: Donald bans Huey, Dewey, and Louie from his spotless house for the duration of clean-freak Daisy's visit. In exile, the boys inadvertently do more damage than if they were allowed to stay.
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Reprint Notes: from Egmont (DK)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: D 2312
Disclose Notes: Original writer and artist not credited in the issue.
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Bucket Brigade

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Grab a bucket, kids, and pick up all the apples out in the yard!
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie use metal apple-picking buckets as helmets to guard against frequently falling apples.
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Reprint Notes: from Egmont (DK)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: D 3144
Disclose Notes: Original writer and artist not credited in the issue.
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Bzazz [Bee Bumbles]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; various panicked citizens of Duckburg; florist; tattooed sailor; beat cop; Supreme Instructor of the Junior Woodchucks; many hose-wielding firemen; unnamed angry neighbor (Neighbor Jones?); lots of bees
First Line: The opening scenes of this drama take place in the early summer!
Synopsis: Donald’s nephews raise bees as a project to be "Future Farm Experts of the Junior Woodchucks of the World." This causes nothing but problems and gets Donald in trouble with the whole city.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v14 #2 (158) published November 1953
was Bee Bumbles [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: WDC 158-01; KD 3990
Disclose Notes: Carl Barks is not credited as letterer. Duckburg is seen as being populated by "dog-noses", "pig-noses"... and humans. Art submitted on May 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Donald Duck; mailman (in logo illustration)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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