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Tells About Kites [Florida Power story]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [Donald Duck]
Submission: [[1954, June 17, and 1954, July 8]]
Publication date: 1954, [November]
Issue: Donald Duck Tells About Kites [Florida Power comic]  
Pages: 8 [same number as Tells About Kites [Southern California story]]

Additional credits: Three editions of the 1954 giveaway comic "Donald Duck Tells About Kites" are known to exist. Reportedly, this version is virtually identical to Tells About Kites [Southern California story], with one minor variation in the text. (What? Where?) Reportedly, panels 7.3, 7.4, and 8.3, are different from Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas story]. (Reportedly, panel 7.1 differs in length, but the art itself appears to be the very same.)
Barks's vouchers contain confusing information about the work that has been done for this story.
More information, and a more detailed comparison

Changes: It's difficult to determine if this is a changed or original version, and if changes where made by Barks or by the editor (or both). It largely depends on what happened (or didn't happen) with Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas story] and Tells About Kites [Southern California story].

Questions: Do you have scans of this story as published in Donald Duck Tells About Kites [Florida Power comic]?
Do you know more than what is mentioned here? Unnoticed differences with the versions in the other two editions, for example? And which of them is the original one, on which the other versions are based?

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W KGA 3-01 Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas story]

Barrier: MBAC-124
CBL: 06A-008 (three panels)
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: [1954, June 17, and 1954, July 8]
Publication date: 1954, [November]
Issue: Donald Duck Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas comic]  
Pages: 8 [in fact only three panels?]

Additional credits: Three editions of the 1954 giveaway comic "Donald Duck Tells About Kites" are known to exist. Panels 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 8.3 of this version are different from the virtually identical other two versions, which are Tells About Kites [Florida Power story] and Tells About Kites [Southern California story]. (Panel 7.1 differs in length, but there's no extra art.) According to a caption in the bottom-left corner of panel 1.1, this story is "published as a public service by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company".
Barks's vouchers contain confusing information about the work that has been done for this story.
More information, and a more detailed comparison

Description: (Description of page 7 and panel 8.3, as published in the D.O.N.A.L.D.-internal magazine "Mitteilungen für Mitglieder".)
The kite gets caught in the power line (panel 7.1), and a nephew penciles down "rule no 6", which warns for kites getting caught in power lines (panel 7.2). Reportedly, this is very same material in all three versions.
Then, in panel 7.3, Donald suddenly discovers a broken power line hanging down, and he warns that "we'll have to notify P. G. and E. immediately" (panel 7.3).
Then, in panel 7.4, Donald looks up and comments: "Even with the best of care, power lines sometimes break! If you find one, always report it!" Two nephews say: "We'll stay here to see that nobody touches the wire!" The third nephew walks towards a phone booth, saying: "And I'll phone P. G. and E. right away!"
Panel 7.5 shows a close-up of a nephew having penciled another note, saying "And that's rule number seven!" The note reads "Never touch fallen electric wires, report them to P. G. and E. or to your parents".
Panel 7.6 appears to be the same material in all three versions. It shows the ducks in an open park.
Panel 8.3 shows eight rules (instead of seven). It has no bottom panel-border. All papers, and almost all of their shadows, are fullly shown. The eighth rule and its paper are identical to the seventh rule in Tells About Kites [Southern California story], except for the numbering. (The rule reads: "Never let a kite go over radio or TV aerials".) The paper of current rule number seven is not shown in Tells About Kites [Southern California story]. (The rule reads: "Never touch electric wires".)

Changes: The caption in the bottom-left corner of panel 1.1 seems to be added. (Or is there a similar caption in the other two editions as well?) Panel 7.1 appears to be heightened by moving the bottom panel-border down, adding more whitespace below Donald's feet, in order to make them fit with panels 7.3, 7.4 and 7.5. If panel 7.1 is not changed here, then a change has been made in panel 7.1 of Tells About Kites [Florida Power story] and/or Tells About Kites [Southern California story].
It's difficult to determine if this is a changed or original version, and if changes where made by Barks or by the editor (or both). It largely depends on what happened (or didn't happen) with Tells About Kites [Florida Power story] and Tells About Kites [Southern California story].

CBL-notes: Only three panels have been printed. They replace panels 7.3 and 7.4 of Tells About Kites [Southern California story]. Redrawn, or at least heavily retouched. The dialogue is taken from the original publication, or relettered, maybe both.

Notes: Reprinted in monochrome xerox-quality in the German D.O.N.A.L.D.-internal magazine "Mitteilungen für Mitglieder" (bulletin for members of D.O.N.A.L.D.) edition of October, 1982 (published by Elke Imberger).

Questions: Do you have scans of this story as published in Donald Duck Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas comic]?
Do you know more than what is mentioned here? Unnoticed differences with the versions in the other two editions, for example? And which of them is the original one, on which the other versions are based?

Sources



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W KGA 2-01 Tells About Kites [Southern California story]

Barrier: MBAC-124
CBL: 06A-151
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: [1954, June 17, and 1954, July 8]
Publication date: 1954, [November]
Issue: Donald Duck Tells About Kites [Southern California comic]  
Pages: 8 [same number as Tells About Kites [Florida Power story]]

Additional credits: Three editions of the 1954 giveaway comic "Donald Duck Tells About Kites" are known to exist. Reportedly, this version is virtually identical to Tells About Kites [Florida Power story], with one minor variation in the text. (What? Where?) Panels 7.3, 7.4, and 8.3, are different from Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas story]. (Panel 7.1 differs in length, but the art itself appears to be the very same.)
Barks's vouchers contain confusing information about the work that has been done for this story.
More information, and a more detailed comparison

Description: (Description of page 7 and panel 8.3, as published in The Carl Barks Library - Set VI.)
The kite gets caught in the power line (panel 7.1), and a nephew penciles down "rule no 6", which warns for kites getting caught in power lines (panel 7.2). Reportedly, this is very same material in all three versions.
Then, in panel 7.3, Donald shows a phone booth to two of the nephews, saying: "Here's what to do! Call the electric company and they'll send a lineman to get your kite down for you!" The third nephew penciles a note, but that could be a continuation of the previous panel.
Panel 7.4 has the width of the page, as wide as two normal panels. At the left, under panel 7.1, it has a small extension on top. A caption reads "Later...", and the art shows a lineman giving back the kite to the nephews, witnessed by a Donald.
Panel 7.6 appears to be the same material in all three versions. It shows the ducks in an open park.
Panel 8.3 shows seven rules (instead of eight). The paper of the seventh rule, and it's shadow, are partly shown. (It stops at the bottom panel-border.) The seventh rule and its paper are identical to the eighth rule in Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas story], except for the numbering. (The rule reads: "Never let a kite go over radio or TV aerials".) The paper of the eighth rule in Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas story], is not included.

Changes: It's difficult to determine if this is a changed or original version, and if changes where made by Barks or by the editor (or both). It largely depends on what happened (or didn't happen) with Tells About Kites [Florida Power story] and Tells About Kites [Pacific Gas story].

CBL-notes: Redrawn, or at least heavily retouched. The dialogue is taken from the original publication, or relettered, maybe both.

Questions: Do you have scans of this story as published in Donald Duck Tells About Kites [Southern California comic]?
Do you know more than what is mentioned here? Unnoticed differences with the versions in the other two editions, for example? And which of them is the original one, on which the other versions are based?

Sources

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