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Issue: Four Color #291
Publication Date: September 1950
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Issues: #291 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's Donald Duck in The Magic Hourglass
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/25/1950
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date per Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1950 Pamphlets, page 462.

Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in "THE MAGIC HOURGLASS", No. 291." Code number is D.D.O.S #291-509 (Code number appears to be altered.) Copyright 1950 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Donald Duck #13?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
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 from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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The Magic Hourglass

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLa Dynastie Donald Duck #1 published December 2010
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #12 published June 2005
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Part of the "Animated Covers" series.
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Beach Trouble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
Synopsis: Donald wants to take a nap at the beach, but the nephews keep bothering him.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white.
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The Magic Hourglass

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
Synopsis: Scrooge gives his nephews an hourglass that he later discovers is the source of his great wealth. Carrying a billion dollars to buy the hourglass back, he follows the ducks to Africa, where they have gone to fill the hourglass with fresh sand from the oasis of No Issa -- the only kind of sand that will keep perfect time in the hourglass and so make its owner richer by the hour.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #341 published May 2005
In Issue: FlagLa Dynastie Donald Duck #1 published December 2010
In Content Item: FlagMickey Magazine #129 published March 1953
as Le sablier magique [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagOscar Mondadori [Oscar Fumetto] #170 published August 1968
as Zio Paperone e la clessidra magica [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck Best Comics #[nn] [1st Printing] published January 1978
as The Magic Hourglass [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=13 pages, abridged?; original layout=28 pages
In Content Item: FlagThe Walt Disney Best Comics Series #[4] published October 1980
as The Magic Hourglass [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] #[1985] published October 1985
as Det magiske timeglasset [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #2 published November 1986
as The Magic Hourglass [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #16 [unnamed variant] published October 1989
as The Magic Hourglass [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCarl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color #16 published April 1995
as The Magic Hourglass [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #12 published June 2005
as Meu Reino por uma Ampulheta [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
Disclose Notes: Story submitted on March 16, 1950. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
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The Spirit of '76

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
Synopsis: The nephews decide to put on a play about the American Revolution. Donald takes charge and decides that the family should live like their forefathers in order to get the feel for their parts.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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Fishing Pelican

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck
Synopsis: A pelican ruins Donald's fishing.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.
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Late for School

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
Synopsis: The nephews make an excuse for being late to school.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Bottom half of the back cover.
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How To Make the Cover Move

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Top half of back cover. Directions on how to make the front cover move.

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