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Issue: The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color #42
Publication Date: June 1995
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Issues: #42 of 51 Issues
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Publisher: FlagGladstone
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Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
On Sale Date: 1995
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: 1574600087
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Price: $9.95 USD
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Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 8 1/2" x 11" (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm)
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover
Binding: Squarebound
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: anthropomorphic
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover created using Barks images by Bruce Hamilton
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Sitting High

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Brigitte Van Doran; Gasmore Gravytrain; Jane Girlsfield; Snarlin Grando; Tallin De Saddle; trash-burning woman; local news photographer; Tripe Magazine photographer; celebrity-obsessed stampeding crowds
First Line: Among the many winter visitors in glamorous Palm Sands are Donald Duck and his nephews!
Synopsis: Donald tries various ways to achieve fame.
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #5 (245) [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1961
was Sitting High [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Celebrity parody names abound: "Snarlin Grando" = method actor Marlin Brando. "Jayne Girlsfield" = full and shapely actress Jayne Mansfield (with hair tresses drawn by Barks to mitigate or deemphasize her upper figure, perhaps in consideration of the Dell Comics Code). "Prince Raindeer and Princess Lace" = Monaco monarchs Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. "Brigitte Van Doren" = an amalgam of glamorous actress Brigitte Bardot and busty actress Mamie Van Doren.

Made up joke and pun names are liberally mixed in with the celebrity parody names, giving pause to modern readers less familiar with the celebrity culture of the late-1950s and early-1960s: "Tallin De Saddle", "Cuddles Marrymore", "Rocky Stonejaw", and a famous politician named "Gasmore Gravytrain".

Among the media focused on Donald on pages 3 and 4 is "Bathé News", a sendup of Pathé News, once a supplier of newsreels to movie theatres.
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Lost Frontier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Captain Gadabout; mesa-dwelling cavemen
First Line: Look out, Captain Gadabout! That snowman will get you!
Synopsis: On a remote high mesa, Donald and the nephews discover cavemen.
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #6 (246) published March 1961
was Lost Frontier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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Letter from the Duck Man, Part Fifteen: The Graphic Gallery Gambit

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: Letters dicussing Barks' oil paintings.
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Pages: 4
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The Madcap Mariner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Gyro Gearloose; crew of the Daffy-O; rival crews of cod fishing boats; codfish contest judge; reporters
First Line: Ducks are pawns and cod are kings in this briny tale of ice and fish in the roaring northern seas!
Synopsis: Aboard the good schooner Daffy-O, unseaworthy Donald, with the boys and a "lubber crew", must win the Fishermen's Gold Cup for Uncle Scrooge at the annual cod fishing competition... or else. While disadvantaged in almost every way, Scrooge has provided Donald with a "secret device" to compensate - the nature of which is unknown to Donald and his crew.
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #7 (247) published April 1961
was The Madcap Mariner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Originally submitted by Barks as a ten-page story, the equivalent of one full page has been edited out of Barks' submission for the original printed version and all subsequent reprints. Every printing of this story has been nine pages.
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Carolers and Serenaders

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: A discussion of Barks' re-use of gags.
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Pages: 1
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Terrible Tourist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; squad of Hondorican police; first senorita; second senorita; second senorita's papa; Conchita; the Duckburgian Consul to Hondorica
First Line: There are two kinds of tourists roaming foreign lands - the proper kind and -
Synopsis: Donald obsessively attempts to gather Latin American souvenirs and is most obsessed with getting a rose from a balcony-serenaded senorita as the ultimate prize.
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #8 (248) published May 1961
was Terrible Tourist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Donald and the boys visit Hondorica, the locale of a previous adventure in Barks' earlier "Secret of Hondorica" in (Dell, 1952 Series) #46 (March-April 1956). https://www.comics.org/issue/12731/#106997

Serenading gags reworked from an originally unpublished story in which Donald aggressively serenades Neighbor Jones with Christmas Carols. The Neighbor Jones story has since been printed in various collections.
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Stranger Than Fiction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; experimental mice; various Duckburg police; police psychiatrist; Old Satchel Face (alligator)
First Line: What nicer way could one spend a rainy day than curled up with a good book!
Synopsis: Donald expresses his displeasure with his nephews reading science fiction, but then decides to show them up with the help of Gyro and his transport-beaming invention.
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From Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v21 #9 (249) published June 1961
was Stranger than Fiction [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Gyro's device which transmits people and objects "electronically along beams of cosmic rays" would seem to be a forerunner to the Transporter technology of Star Trek the Original Series (1966-1969), as well as its many sequels, and at the same time derivative of Al (David) Hedison's ill-fated transport device from "The Fly" (1956), and perhaps additional media and literary precursors.

In this story, Gyro's invention was inspired by a science fiction magazine article titled "Ten Seconds to Mars" by Spicer Willits. The fictional author is a combined tribute to the earliest readers/fans to make contact with Carl Barks - John Spicer and Bill Spicer (the latter an eventual letterer for Western Publishing) and Malcolm Willits.

Originally submitted by Barks as a ten-page story, the equivalent of one full page has been edited out of Barks' submission for the original printed version and all subsequent reprints. Every printing of this story has been nine pages.
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Barks' First Fan Letter

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Letter to Barks from actress Esther Williams.
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