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W OS 9-02
finds Pirate Gold
(Inducks:
Finds Pirate Gold)
- Inducks: W OS 9-02
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01A-019
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks (pages 1,2,5,12-40), Jack Hannah (pages 3,4,6-11,41-64)
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks,Jack Hannah)
- Plot: Harry Reeves, Homer Brightman
(Inducks plotter: Harry Reeves,Homer Brightman)
- Script: Bob Karp
(Inducks writer: Bob Karp)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: Date not available
(Inducks submission: 1942)
- Publication date: 1942
(Inducks publication date: 1942-10)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 9
- Pages: 64
(Inducks pages: 64)
- Inducks description: Donald, the nephews, and Yellowbeak the pirate parrot battle Black Pete for a pirate's treaure
Additional credits:
Rescripted from photostats of the storyboards for the abandoned animated movie
Morgan's Ghost. The story adaption was written by
Bob Karp.
Landmark:
Barks's first comic book work (as artist). He illustrated 32 of the 64 pages:
page 1, 2, 5, 12-40. The other pages were illustrated by
Jack Hannah,
at that time Barks's partner in the Duck unit of the story department at the Disney Studio.
Backstage:
In a 1978 article, Barks said about this story: "'Pirate Gold' proved to the publishers that
Donald didn't have to be in constant turmoil in order to be interesting. His bungling
mistakes and his blissful innocence of danger and of being outrageously victimized proved just
as amusing as his tantrums. He came off great in a sympathetic role, and his brattish little
nephews came off equally great as the 'brains' of the family.
The comedy situation of Donald the reckless bungler getting into hopeless troubles from which
he is extricated by his sharp-witted, suspicious-natured nephews was competently developed
in this story, and it has carried on into many tales of high and not-so-high adventures ever since."
Correspondence:
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W OS 29-01
and the Mummy's Ring
(Inducks:
The Mummy's Ring)
- Inducks: W OS 29-01
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01A-161
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, May 10
(Inducks submission: 1943-05-10)
- Publication date: 1943, (September)
(Inducks publication date: 1943-09)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 29
- Pages: 28
(Inducks pages: 28)
- Inducks description: Donald, Dewey, and Louie pursue a kidnapped Huey and a stolen mummy to Egypt
Additional credits:
In 1965, Barks was asked to re-ink page 1, page 16, and page 17
for the story's reprint in
"Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck" No. 1.
Status:
The "sort of script" is lost.
Backstage:
- Barks has recalled submitting "a sort of script".
- Chuck Couch, who worked with Barks as a story man at the Disney studio, is caricatured on
a wanted poster on panel 7 of page 7.
Detailed information
Correspondence:
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W OS 29-02
in "The Hard Loser"
So the joke's on me, eh?
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks:
The Hard Loser)
- Inducks: W OS 29-02
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01A-189
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, May 10
(Inducks submission: 1943-05-10)
- Publication date: 1943, (September)
(Inducks publication date: 1943-09)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 29
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: Donald and the nephews enter a screwball horse race
Landmark:
Donald mentions "grandpa", who has an "old buggy horse" (1.4).
CBL-notes:
Retouched, art looks muddy overall. After this set was printed, the original
1943 proof pages were discovered. For this reason, the version of the story
in "Walt Disney Comics and Stories" No. 551 (1991) is far superior to the
Carl Barks Library version (although the word "queer" in panel 1 of
page 7 is changed into "weird").
Appearances:
Screwball Derby (1.3); grandpa's old buggy horse (1.4); John the Junkman (2.5, 3.4);
Hamilton (2.6).
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W OS 29-03
in "Too Many Pets"
(Inducks:
Too Many Pets)
- Inducks: W OS 29-03
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01A-199
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Merrill De Maris,Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, May 29
(Inducks submission: 1943-05-29)
- Publication date: 1943, (September)
(Inducks publication date: 1943-09)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 29
- Pages: 26
(Inducks pages: 26)
- Inducks description: A barrel organ player gives HDL his trained ape; HDL get a monkey, sells it to a burglar, and the monkey steals some papers; The nephews adopt an organ grinder's monkey and thwart a spy
Additional credits:
In a June 9, 1968 letter to Michael Barrier,
Barks wrote: "In the Sept. 1943 D.D. the story 'Too Many Pets' was a sort of collaboration.
The script was started by a writer at the Disney Studio who found himself so overloaded
with work on plots for the Mickey comic strips that he had to quit 'Too Many Pets.'
I was handed the half-outlined plot and asked to do what I could with it. I merely
polished up the other writer's gags and situations, and lengthened the tale, and lo!
it didn't look too bad for that spy-conscious era. The Disney writer was named Merrill
(something-or-other). He had been Walt Kelly's partner in a story unit at Disneys. I
understand he got fed up with gag writing and bought a nursery (plants and trees) and
lived happily ever after." (The artist's name is Merrill the Maris).
CBL-notes:
Retouched, art looks muddy overall.
Correspondence:
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in "Porky of the Mounties"
(Inducks:
- Inducks: Qus/QOS 48
- Barrier: MBAC-130
- Bear Book: BBB-013
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
- Script: [unknown]
- Hero: Porky Pig
- Submission: 1944, March 21
- Publication date: 1944, (July)
- Issue: Porky Pig One Shot 48
- Pages: 24
)
Landmark:
Porky Pig story.
Changes:
Looking carefully at the heads of Bugs Bunny, Petunia
and Porky, occasionally small black lines can be seen
where drawings were pasted over Barks' originals. In an August 21, 1974
letter, Barks wrote: "... a few of the Porky or Petunia
faces may have been reworked by the staff artists in the editorial room. All of the
Bugs heads had to be redrawn, which pleased me very much.
I am sure that if my Bugs had been acceptable, the
office would have added that series to my work load."
Status:
Original version is lost.
Appearances:
Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny,
Petunia, Dauntless of the Mounties, Canada.
Backstage:
In a June 9, 1966 letter to Michael Barrier,
Barks wrote: "Mickey Mouse and Porky Pig I barely
touched. They weren't my cup of tea."
In a February 20, 1970 letter to Barrier, Barks wrote: "About how I happened
to do the Mickey and Porky series in 1944
and '45 - I was asked to do so by the office. I wouldn't have
ventured into those characters' field by choice."
Correspondence:
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W OS 62-02
in Frozen Gold
(Inducks:
Frozen Gold)
- Inducks: W OS 62-02
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01B-271
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1944, August 9
(Inducks submission: 1944-08-09)
- Publication date: 1945, (January)
(Inducks publication date: 1945-01)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 62
- Pages: 24
(Inducks pages: 24)
- Inducks description: Donald and the nephews fly penicillin to stricken Eskimos and recover a fortune in Yukon gold
Cross-references:
Donald is sick of snow and cold. The nephews suggest: "Let's
go / down South / Unca' Donald!" (1.2)
In the beginning of the next adventure in the same issue,
«in Mystery of the Swamp», they are near
the Everglades, Florida. Although this is not a cross-reference, it might
be some sort of continuation of what happened after Donald and the nephews
have finished flying supplies of penicillin to Alaska.
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W OS 62-03
in Mystery of the Swamp
(Inducks:
Mystery of the Swamp)
- Inducks: W OS 62-03
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01B-295
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1944, September 23
(Inducks submission: 1944-09-23)
- Publication date: 1945, (January)
(Inducks publication date: 1945-01)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 62
- Pages: 24
(Inducks pages: 24)
- Inducks description: Donald and the nephews explore the Everglades and encounter the Gneezles
Surviving material:
- running man with webbed feet ?
- detail of an early Gneezle?
Backstage:
In 1976 and 1983 interviews, Barks has commented on how the Everglades became
the inspiration of this story.
Stephen Eberhart's article "Somewhere Under the Rainbow (Part I)",
published in The Barks Collector 21, identifies
running man with webbed feet as a sketch of an early Gneezle. This
design was used as detail for Student Witch.
Detailed information
Research:
The Everglades is an existant place. It's the maze of mangrove islands at the
south-west tip of Florida, in the United States of America. Nowadays, the
Everglades is nothing like the place depicted in this story anymore.
Detailed information
Cross-references:
Although there don't seem to be any cross-references, this story might be
some sort of continuation of what happened in
«in Frozen Gold», after Donald and
the nephews have finished flying supplies of penicillin to Alaska, and
Donald is now complaining about the lack of adventure.
Interviews:
- text of 1976 and 1983 interviews
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W OS 79-01
and The Riddle of the Red Hat
(Inducks:
The Riddle of the Red Hat)
- Inducks: W OS 79-01
- Barrier: MBAC-125
- CBL: 06A-161
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Eleanor Packer?)
- Hero: Mickey Mouse
(Inducks hero: Mickey Mouse)
- Submission: 1945, April 27
(Inducks submission: 1945-04-27)
- Publication date: 1945, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1945-08)
- Issue: Mickey Mouse One Shot 79
- Pages: 11
(Inducks pages: 11)
- Inducks description: MI buys red hat and is mistreated as spy; Minnie's choice of a red hat involves Mickey and Minnie with a gang of jewel thieves
Landmark:
Mickey Mouse story.
Appearances:
Whoosit, living at 72 Verbena Boulevard (6.5 and 6.7).
Backstage:
In a September 18, 1970 letter to Donald Ault, Barks wrote: "Strange to say,
I had completely forgotten the story. Reading it, I could see my drawing
style in the artwork. My old pay vouchers prove that I did do the art,
so I'll puff out my chest and brag that I did a pretty fair Mickey and Goofy."
Detailed information
Research:
Barks used Floyd Gottfredson / Merril de Maris' "Mickey
Mouse in Love trouble" (Mickey Mouse dailies 14 April 1941 - 5 July 1941,
reprinted in WDC 36 - 39) as study for "Riddle of the Red Hat".
Congruences:
- W WDC 58-02 grand canyon of the colorado
- The lady in panel 8.9 is taken from "Love Trouble".
Correspondence:
Questions:
- Are there more stories which Barks used as study for "The Riddle of the Red Hat"?
- Does "Verbena Boulevard" refer to a real street name?
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W OS 108-01
in "The Terror of the River!!"
(Inducks:
The Terror of the River!!)
- Inducks: W OS 108-01
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01B-321
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1946, January 25
(Inducks submission: 1946-01-25)
- Publication date: 1946
(Inducks publication date: 1946-01)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 108
- Pages: 28
(Inducks pages: 28)
- Inducks description: D+N fight against river serpent; Donald and the nephews buy a houseboat and encounter a sea serpent on the Ohio River
Changes:
If The Carl Barks Library - Set I has printed the story as it first
appeared, then Western has altered the lay-out of the first page. Possibly,
they seemed to have needed room under the page and so they apparently reduced
the page (keeping the ratio) and widened the panels with new art (most
notably on the right side of the page) so that the first page would still use
the horizontal width of the comic-page fully. Tier 1 and 4 have a
larger height than tier 2 and 3, which could mean that some art has
been cut from the panels during the process.
Status:
If changed, the original version is lost.
Backstage:
Barks, about how he tried to avoid censoring: "For 'The Terror of the River'
I needed a villain that was a mean son of a gun. I felt that if I made him
totally nutty, it would get by the editors a great deal more than if I made
him murderous. I created a guy that didn't leave any bad taste in people's
mouths, didn't cause children any nightmares afterward. I was not writing
for the horror comics."
Interviews:
- text of 1976 and 1983 interviews
Questions:
Is the original publication identical to the reprint in
The Carl Barks Library - Set I?
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W OS 108-02
in "The Firebug"
(Inducks:
The Firebug)
- Inducks: W OS 108-02
- Barrier: MBAC-106
- CBL: 01B-349
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks,?)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1945, July 19
(Inducks submission: 1945-07-19)
- Publication date: 1946
(Inducks publication date: 1946-01)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 108
- Pages: 13
(Inducks pages: 13)
- Inducks description: Donald suffers a blow to the head and becomes a pyromaniac; accused of being an incendiary
Additional credits:
This story has pages with nine to eleven panels each; most have ten panels.
According to Barks's voucher, he was paid for thirteen pages "plus 30
panels," which was evidently Western's method of paying him for drawing more
than eight panels per page. The vouchers for a few other stories in this
crowded format carry similar notations.
Layout:
Pages have nine to eleven panels each; most have ten.
Changes:
The last two panels of this story are not by Barks: "The editors objected to the last couple of
panels of that story because I had Donald set fire to the judge's wastebasket. [It] accidently
burned down the courthouse, and he wound up in jail. Western couldn't have a Disney character
looking out from behind bars in the final panel of the story, so they changed the ending.
They didn't usually redraw my art like that; the editors would often suggest that the artist
do the changing himself. But these two panels would have been done by one of the staff artists,
either Carl Buettner or Tom McKimson."
As redrawn, Donald awakens and discovers that his adventures as a firebug have all been a bad
dream. The original ending has no doubt been destroyed.
Lost material:
- CZ OS 108 The Firebug [lost cut material]
Status:
Original version is lost.
Congruences:
- WDC 50-06 The Three Caballeros [non-Barks story!]
- Written and drawn by Carl Buettner.
- Published in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories No. 50, November 1944.
- Last panel shows (an innocent) Donald in jail.
- W WDC 62-02 water ski race with wires and pulleys
- Last panel shows Donald in jail.
Interviews:
- text of 1976 and 1983 interviews
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W OS 108-03
in "Seals Are So Smart!"
(Inducks:
Seals Are So Smart!)
- Inducks: W OS 108-03
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01B-363
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1946, January 25
(Inducks submission: 1946-01-25)
- Publication date: 1946
(Inducks publication date: 1946-01)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 108
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: Donald and the nephews encounter a trained seal; HDL play baseball with a little seal on the beach
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CZ OS 108
The Firebug [lost cut material]
(Inducks:
- Inducks: CZ OS 108
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: ---
- Type: story segment
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
(Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1945, July 19 ?
(Inducks submission: 1945-07-19)
- Publication date: [none or unknown]
- Issue: [none or unknown]
- Pages: 0 [1/8?; 2/8?]
(Inducks pages: 0 +)
- Intended issue: Donald Duck One Shot 108
- Intended publication date: 1946
- Inducks description: The Firebug
Additional credits:
See in "The Firebug", for more information.
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W OS 147-01
hats and huge sombrero
(Inducks description:
If the Hat Fits)
- Inducks: W OS 147-01
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01B-387
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1946, December 30
(Inducks submission: 1946-12-30)
- Publication date: 1947, (May)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-05)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 147
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: buys a big sombrero for his donkey
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W OS 147-02
in "Volcano Valley"
(Inducks:
Volcano Valley)
- Inducks: W OS 147-02
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01B-387
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1946, December 9
(Inducks submission: 1946-12-09)
- Publication date: 1947, (May)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-05)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 147
- Pages: 30
(Inducks pages: 30)
- Inducks description: DD buys real plane, then flies to volcanic country; Donald and the nephews visit the lazy country of Vocanovia
Research:
Donald, thinking of buying a model plane: "I can get one from the
war surplus people for much less! The army had lots of them during
the war!" (1.3) Nephews: "Unca Donald, there's a letter here for
you!" / "From the" / "war surplus depot!" (1.6)
Though it's not literally being said, this could be a reference to
World War II.
As part of Volcano Valley's president's grumbling, a
swastika can be seen. (18.5)
Donald's 313 car is described as "1920 Mixwell engine! '22 Dudge body!
'23 Paclac axles! Wheels off a lawn mower!" (panel 5.5)
Those are all puns on American automobile names. "Dudge" refers to Dodge.
"Paclac" is a gag-combo of PACkard and CadilLAC, the two competitors for
the high-end car buyers back in the old days. "Mixwell" refers to Maxwell.
(The last probably coming from the very popular Jack Benny radio program.)
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W OS 159-01
and the Ghost of the Grotto
(Inducks:
The Ghost of the Grotto)
- Inducks: W OS 159-01
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01B-421
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1947, April 15
(Inducks submission: 1947-04-15)
- Publication date: 1947, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-08)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 159
- Pages: 26
(Inducks pages: 26)
- Inducks description: Donald and the nephews harvest kelp; Dewey is kidnapped by an armored man
Backstage:
In a 1974 interview with Michael Barrier,
Barks said that this story was a rare example of a story that was conceived as ten
pages for "Walt Disney's Comics" and grew into a longer story for "Donald Duck":
"I can remember the first idea I had on that was just trying to figure out something
Donald could do. I thought of him sailing boats and came up with a potential ten pages
of gathering seaweed, and selling this kelp, which would give me a lot of gags with boats.
Like I told you before, I think of a scene, I mean a locale, and think, 'Well, I feel in
the mood to draw boats, and the ocean, and so on,' and that would cause me to start
working on that particular type of story. As I developed more and more things with
the story, I think it's quite possible that that 'Ghost of the Grotto' was brought
in as a menace. There is so much in that, I couldn't have thought of it in a whole
bucketful of writing at once. It had to come out one thing after another."
On the Disney comics Mailing List, François Willot wrote: "A very important change in
Carl Barks' work was "Ghost of the Grotto". Geoffrey Blum said that this story is a
landmark, though one could also say this for "Adventure Down Under", submitted by Barks
before "Ghost of the Grotto"." ("Adventure Down Under" was submitted on 4 April 1947.)
Interviews:
- 1974 interview by Michael Barrier
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W OS 159-02
in Adventure "Down Under"
Donald! You're going to be sorrreeeeee!
-- Fate
(Inducks:
Adventure Down Under)
- Inducks: W OS 159-02
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01B-447
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1947, April 4
(Inducks submission: 1947-04-04)
- Publication date: 1947, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-08)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 159
- Pages: 25
(Inducks pages: 25)
- Inducks description: Following Donald's hypnotism into believing he's a kangaroo, Donald and the nephews visit the Australian Outback; travels hypnotized to Australia, hired to catch kangaroo
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W OS 178-01
big visors add snap to a car
(Inducks description:
Fashion in Flight)
- Inducks: W OS 178-01
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-499
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1947, July 22
(Inducks submission: 1947-07-22)
- Publication date: 1947, (december)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 178
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
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W OS 178-02
Christmas on Bear Mountain
(Inducks:
Christmas On Bear Mountain)
- Inducks: W OS 178-02
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-479
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck's
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1947, July 22
(Inducks submission: 1947-07-22)
- Publication date: 1947, (december)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 178
- Pages: 20
(Inducks pages: 20)
- Inducks description: Courage test at Bear Mountain; The nephews meet Uncle Scrooge following his test of their and Donald's bravery
Landmark:
First appearance of Scrooge McDuck / Uncle Scrooge.
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W OS 178-04
two ways to find donald duck
(Inducks description:
Turn for the Worse)
- Inducks: W OS 178-04
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-500
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1947, July 22
(Inducks submission: 1947-07-22)
- Publication date: 1947, (december)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 178
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: DD tells a car driver the way to himself
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W OS 178-05
modern kitchen tryout
(Inducks description:
Machine Mix-Up)
- Inducks: W OS 178-05
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-501
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1947, July 22
(Inducks submission: 1947-07-22)
- Publication date: 1947, (december)
(Inducks publication date: 1947-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 178
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: modern appliances
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W OS 189-00
skeleton hand holds sword
(Inducks:
The Old Castle's Secret)
- Inducks: W OS 189-00
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-511
- Type: cover, illustrating «in "The Old Castle's Secret"»
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, January 16
(Inducks submission: 1948-01-16)
- Publication date: 1948, (June)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-06)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 189
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
Landmark:
Barks's first front cover for a comic book.
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W OS 189-01
two old crowes
(Inducks description:
Bird Watching)
- Inducks: W OS 189-01
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-512
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, January 6
(Inducks submission: 1948-01-06)
- Publication date: 1948, (June)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-06)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 189
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
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W OS 189-02
in "The Old Castle's Secret"
(Inducks:
The Old Castle's Secret)
- Inducks: W OS 189-02
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-513
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1947, December 3
(Inducks submission: 1947-12-03)
- Publication date: 1948, (June)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-06)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 189
- Pages: 32
(Inducks pages: 32)
- Inducks description: Invisible ghost in US's Scotch old castle; Uncle Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews visit Castle McDuck on Dismal Downs to locate a lost treasure
Additional credits:
The invisibility spray may have been inspired by a similar gimmick in
«The Vanishing Private». Another
possible influence could have been «The Haunted Castle», an
unproduced cartoon from 1940 in which Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are
menaced by an invisible, sword-wielding ghost in an old Scottish estate.
(As far as known, Barks did not contribute to that cartoon.)
Trivia:
Reference to death. One of the castle's walls contains the skeleton of
Sir Quackly. (panel 5.8, 6.7)
Backstage:
"mybibliotitle" contains a newspaper
quality, black-and-white 1947 Hemet News photograph of Barks, posing at his
drawing board, with the original art of page 5A. As the art seems to
look finished or almost finished, this photo must have been taken shortly
before the story's submission.
Barks, about how he tried to avoid censoring: "There was certainly a bit of
the horror story in 'The Old Castle's Secret'. A skeleton walled up in an old
castle - that's almost the E.C. comics tradition. But such things are
interesting, and I managed to put it over without getting too morbid."
Research:
Diamond Dick says: "With some chemical spray I stole from a foreign spy
during the war!" (31.6) Though it's not literally being said, this could be
a reference to World War II.
Uncle Scrooge's castle at Dismal Downs is an amalgam of historic architecture.
The basic structure is that of Harlech Castle in Wales. To give the building a
more antique air, Barks added turrets and battlements from Glamis and a tower
of Cawdor, both Scottish castles which figure in the legend of MacBeth.
Pictures of the "National Geographic Society" (the May 1946 and July 1947
issues) were used as source, they are reprinted in the
The Carl Barks Library - Set I (page 1A-249).
Congruences:
- QMS 1942-013
- Chemical invisibility.
Interviews:
- text of 1976 and 1983 interviews
Questions:
What is the history behind the 1947 Hemet News photograph of Barks, posing
with his comic book art?
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W OS 189-03
horseshoes and bad luck
Well! Well! A horseshoe! If some jerk found that,
he'd think it was a sign of good luck!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Horseshoe Luck)
- Inducks: W OS 189-03
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-614
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, January 6
(Inducks submission: 1948-01-06)
- Publication date: 1948, (June)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-06)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 189
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: Horseshoe
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W OS 189-04
beanz in jar
1569 beans -
1570 beans -
1571 beans -
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Bean Taken)
- Inducks: W OS 189-04
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-663
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, January 6
(Inducks submission: 1948-01-06)
- Publication date: 1948, (June)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-06)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 189
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
Description:
The nephews promise a prize for guessing the number of beans in their jar.
Congruences:
September 11, 1939 Donald Duck daily strip
contains a similar gag.
Congruences:
- YD 39-09-11 ten thousand beans and a grapefruit
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W OS 199-00
bullets bounce off sheriff's badge
(Inducks:
Sheriff of Bullet Valley)
- Inducks: W OS 199-00
- Barrier: MBAC-107
- CBL: 01C-545
- Type: cover, illustrating «in "Sheriff of Bullet Valley"»
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, April 29
(Inducks submission: 1948-04-29)
- Publication date: 1948, (October)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-10)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 199
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
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W OS 199-01
awful scared of broken windows
(Inducks description:
Sorry to be Safe)
- Inducks: W OS 199-01
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-546
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, April 22
(Inducks submission: 1948-04-22)
- Publication date: 1948, (October)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-10)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 199
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: HDL should play baseball on safe place; HDL hit dynamite storage with baseball
Description:
Donald searches a suitable lot for the nephews to play ball, because he's awful
scared of broken windows.
CBL-notes:
Colored with shades of red.
Appearances:
Daily Groaner (newspaper, 1.7)
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W OS 199-02
in "Sheriff of Bullet Valley"
(Inducks:
Sheriff of Bullet Valley)
- Inducks: W OS 199-02
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-547
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, March 16
(Inducks submission: 1948-03-16)
- Publication date: 1948, (October)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-10)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 199
- Pages: 32
(Inducks pages: 32)
- Inducks description: Donald takes a job as deputy sheriff and with the nephews battles cattle rustlers
CBL-notes:
Colored.
Backstage:
Barks caricatured himself on a wanted poster on panel 32.3. In a May 30, 1971 interview by
Michael Barrier, Barks said: "That caricature originated
in the old Disney studio days in the gag sheets that us guys used to draw of each other and circulate
around. Some of the guys took to drawing me with this tremendous big schnoz, so I just copied that
old caricature."
Congruences:
- W WDC 102-02 pize spring dude ranch
- Looks of horses are changed.
- W WDC 188-01 olympic try-outs
- Barks caricature on panels 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6.
- W US 69-02 The Cattle King
- Looks of horses are changed.
- W DG 26-01 in The Christmas Cha Cha
- Barks caricature on panel 13.5.
- QMU 1936-?10
- Chase into badlands and the final confrontation.
Interviews:
- May 30, 1971 interview by Michael Barrier
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W OS 199-03
pretending to be sick
Is the braised quail satisfactory this morning, boys?
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Best Laid Plans)
- Inducks: W OS 199-03
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-579
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, April 22
(Inducks submission: 1948-04-22)
- Publication date: 1948, (October)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-10)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 199
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: Sick duck
Description:
Donald pretends to be sick, making the nephews do the cooking and dishwashing.
CBL-notes:
Colored with shades of red.
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W OS 199-04
worm holes test
Yes! I said set it in the backyard!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
The Genuine Article)
- Inducks: W OS 199-04
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-580
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, April 22
(Inducks submission: 1948-04-22)
- Publication date: 1948, (October)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-10)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 199
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: Worm holes
Description:
Donald has a little test to prove the worm holes in a fifteenth century
wig cabinet being genuine or faked.
CBL-notes:
Colored.
Appearances:
"An Egg" (painting, 1.6); "Ho and Hum" (book, 1.7).
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W OS 203-00
sunglasses and golden christmas tree
(Inducks:
The Golden Christmas tree)
- Inducks: W OS 203-00
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-581
- Type: cover, illustrating «in "The Golden Christmas Tree"»
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, July 29
(Inducks submission: 1948-07-29)
- Publication date: 1948, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 203
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
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W OS 203-01
christmas shoveling
Hello, Acme Toy Shop? I want you to rush over three train sets, three
bicycles, three atom splitting cyclotrons, three pairs of skates, three
sleds, three baseball outfits, three -
No! I ain't crazy! Charge 'em to Donald Duck!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Jumping to Conclusions)
- Inducks: W OS 203-01
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-603
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, July 22
(Inducks submission: 1948-07-22)
- Publication date: 1948, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 203
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: Returning HDL's presents because he thinks they didn't clean up the snow
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W OS 203-02
in "The Golden Christmas Tree"
(Inducks:
The Golden Christmas Tree)
- Inducks: W OS 203-02
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-583
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, June 30
(Inducks submission: 1948-06-30)
- Publication date: 1948, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 203
- Pages: 20
(Inducks pages: 20)
- Inducks description: A witch lures the nephews to her lair with a golden Christmas tree
Additional credits:
Based on a story by the editor.
Changes:
The editors ordered Barks to tone down his initial version of the story,
which resulted in segments being redrawn and rewritten.
Detailed information
Status:
Original version is lost.
Correspondence:
Interviews:
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W OS 203-04
unbreakable toys
This tricycle's no good! The wheels break off!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
The True Test)
- Inducks: W OS 203-04
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-604
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, July 22
(Inducks submission: 1948-07-22)
- Publication date: 1948, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 203
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: DD tests toys
Details:
The top left of panel 3.3 seems to show a bomb as one of the toys.
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W OS 203-05
swell christmas tree ornaments
The streets are swarming with last minute Christmas shoppers!
I'll have a time getting through that jam with this tree!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Ornaments on the Way)
- Inducks: W OS 203-05
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-605
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, July 22
(Inducks submission: 1948-07-22)
- Publication date: 1948, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1948-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 203
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
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W OS 223-00
square eggs and square chicken
(Inducks:
Lost in the Andes)
- Inducks: W OS 223-00
- Barrier: MBAC-10
- CBL: 01C-615
- Type: cover, illustrating «in "Lost in the Andes!"»
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, November 24
(Inducks submission: 1948-11-24)
- Publication date: 1949, (April)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-04)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 223
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: Square eggs
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W OS 223-01
awful tight tuxedo
Three more days of this, and I can squeeze my middle through a
doughnut!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Too Fit to Fit)
- Inducks: W OS 223-01
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-649
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, November 24
(Inducks submission: 1948-11-24)
- Publication date: 1949, (April)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-04)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 223
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: working out too much
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W OS 223-02
in "Lost in the Andes!"
(Inducks:
Lost In the Andes)
- Inducks: W OS 223-02
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-617
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, October 21
(Inducks submission: 1948-10-21)
- Publication date: 1949, (April)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-04)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 223
- Pages: 32
(Inducks pages: 32)
- Inducks description: Squared eggs; Donald and the nephews visit the Peruvian Andes, looking for chickens that lay square eggs; the discovery of Plain Awful
Changes:
In this story, Western objected to the accent Barks had given the Plain Awful
people and so they (for example) replaced incorrect use of "d" with "th" in
their dialogue. Apparently it's something Western was making a conscious
effort to do at the time, although they didn't bother to do it some years
later (there are some late-1950s Br'er Rabbit stories that use "d" for "th"
again, but they're fairly few).
Most notable are panels 20.5 ("th" letters slant differently than surrounding
words; presumably replacing "de"); 22.8 (balloon extended on right-hand side
to rewrite "dere" as "theah", rather cramped); 23.6 and 23.8 ("that's" for
"dat's", "theah" for "dere"; in pic 6, "evah" seems to be a substitution too,
perhaps for "nevah" -- eliminating an ungrammatical double-negative);
29.1 (some words cramped by the relettering); and 29.3 (sound effect
lettering obviously cramped in places where "th" replaced "d").
Status:
Original version is lost.
Backstage:
In a 1983 interview for "The Carl Barks Library", Barks answered a question
about his National Geographic research and how he drew the large panel with
the complex stonework that gave the Ducks their first glimpse of the hidden
village of Plain Awful.
Detailed information
Research:
The songs "Dixie" (19.4) and
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (20.1) are
existant songs. "Dixie" was published in 1859 and "Old Virginny" was
published in 1878.
Detail: Later in the story, it is explained that the natives learned the
song from professor Rhutt Betlah who visited the valley from 1863 to 1868,
which means that (in real life) he couldn't have known about
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginny".
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is about a
former slave who reminisces about the good old days back on the plantation
before the US Civil War, when all his needs were met by his kindly master and
mistress, and life was good. The sentimental attitude towards the days of
slavery is nowadays considered politically incorrect, so there is talk of a
re-write of this Virginia state song.
Interviews:
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W OS 223-03
television fight
Fight! Squawk! Beef! Gripe! Life is just one big war around here!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Tunnel Vision)
- Inducks: W OS 223-03
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01C-650
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, November 24
(Inducks submission: 1948-11-24)
- Publication date: 1949, (April)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-04)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 223
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: TV fight; TV Trouble
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W OS 223-04
bowling babysitter
Unca' Donald! This little tyke is crying!
How can we make him stop?
-- nephews
(Inducks description:
Sleepy Sitters)
- Inducks: W OS 223-04
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 01-651
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1948, November 24
(Inducks submission: 1948-11-24)
- Publication date: 1949, (April)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-04)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 223
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: DD as babysitter; DD babysitter; Sleepy Sitters
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W OS 238-00
ducks scared of shrunken man
(Inducks:
Voodoo Hoodoo)
- Inducks: W OS 238-00
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 02A-017
- Type: cover, illustrating «in "Voodoo Hoodoo"»
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, March 17
(Inducks submission: 1949-03-17)
- Publication date: 1949, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-08)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 238
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
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W OS 238-01
putting wax on too thick
I'll just hop from rug to rug!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Slippery Shine)
- Inducks: W OS 238-01
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 02A-018
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: [unknown]
(Inducks writer: ?)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, March 17
(Inducks submission: 1949-03-17)
- Publication date: 1949, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-08)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 238
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: Wax on the floor causes troubles
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W OS 238-02
in "Voodoo Hoodoo"
(Inducks:
Voodoo Hoodoo)
- Inducks: W OS 238-02
- Barrier: MBAC-108
- CBL: 02A-019
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, March 3
(Inducks submission: 1949-03-03)
- Publication date: 1949, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-08)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 238
- Pages: 32
(Inducks pages: 32)
- Inducks description: Donald is pursued by Bombi the Zombie and plagued by a voodoo curse intended for Uncle Scrooge
Changes:
Barks originally drew the zombie of "Voodoo Hoodoo" with blank eyeballs.
The editors at Western Publishing feared that the vacant eyes might frighten
children and so they added pupils and half-closed lids.
In panel 1.4 and 20.8, the editors substituted "done for" for "dead".
In panel 6.7, "dead" was left unchanged.
Surviving material:
bombie the zombie [preliminary study]
Status:
Original version is lost.
CBL-notes:
The faces of the natives are changed and the sharpened teeth are removed. The
native dialect is deleted. Bombie the Zombie's nose is changed and the ring
in his nose is removed. In panel 1 of page 15, the dialogue
referring to the ring moving as the correct answer to the quiz master's
question is changed.
In panel 8 of page 22, the words "done for" are replaced with
"dead". They were changed by the Western editor before the story's first
publication. (More dialogue has been changed. Information on that will
follow.)
Reconstructions:
In The Carl Barks Library - Set II, the dialogue is changed back.
Unfortunately, this reprint is censored.
Congruences:
- QMU 1938-?12
- Donald rides a sack of bouncy rubber pellets
- W OS 394-00 malayalaya
- Donald rides a sack of bouncy rubber pellets
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W OS 238-03
playing games with daisy
You beat me on purpose!
You -
You -
-- Daisy Duck
(Inducks description:
Fractious Fun)
- Inducks: W OS 238-03
- Barrier: MBAC-109
- CBL: 02A-161
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: [unknown]
(Inducks writer: ?)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, March 17
(Inducks submission: 1949-03-17)
- Publication date: 1949, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-08)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 238
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
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W OS 238-04
one ice cream cone each
(Inducks description:
King-Size Cone)
- Inducks: W OS 238-04
- Barrier: MBAC-109
- CBL: 02A-162
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: [unknown]
(Inducks writer: ?)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, March 17
(Inducks submission: 1949-03-17)
- Publication date: 1949, (August)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-08)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 238
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: HDL must have only one cone each
Congruences:
- W VP 1-09 bird's nest mailbox
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W OS 256-00
polar bear and kayak
(Inducks:
Luck of the North)
- Inducks: W OS 256-00
- Barrier: MBAC-109
- CBL: 02A-051
- Type: cover, illustrating «in "Luck of the North"»
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, July 21
(Inducks submission: 1949-07-21)
- Publication date: 1949, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 256
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: In canoe being lifted up by an ice bear
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W OS 256-01
toys burning in fireplace
(Inducks description:
Toasty Toys)
- Inducks: W OS 256-01
- Barrier: MBAC-109
- CBL: 02A-052
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: [unknown]
(Inducks writer: ?)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, July 21
(Inducks submission: 1949-07-21)
- Publication date: 1949, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 256
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: DD burns HDL's toys, HDL burn DD's golf clubs; Toasty Toys; DD puts HDL's toys on fireplace
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W OS 256-02
in "Luck of the North"
(Inducks:
Luck of the North)
- Inducks: W OS 256-02
- Barrier: MBAC-109
- CBL: 02A-053
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, June 29
(Inducks submission: 1949-06-29)
- Publication date: 1949, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 256
- Pages: 32
(Inducks pages: 32)
- Inducks description: Donald and the nephews compete with Gladstone Gander for a Viking treasure; DD fools GL to go to North Pole with fake uranium mine map
Additional credits:
Barks credits Dana Coty with the idea of this story.
Landmark:
First appearance of Gladstone Gander in
the "Donald Duck" series.
CBL-notes:
In three panels, words may have been reordered in the sentences of an Eskimo's
dialogue to become slightly more grammatical.
Question: Possibly, this is only the case in the Carl Barks Library in
Color. Can someone check if it's in the b/w Carl Barks Library, too? Also,
which dialogue has been changed?
Details:
In panel 14.3, Donald's eyes are drawn like Gladstone's.
(Apart from the beak, instead of being attached to it.)
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W OS 256-03
kids find christmas presents
Unca' Donald, we dug out some bricks to make a playhouse,
and look what we found!
-- nephews
(Inducks description:
No Place to Hide)
- Inducks: W OS 256-03
- Barrier: MBAC-109
- CBL: 02A-167
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: [unknown]
(Inducks writer: ?)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, July 21
(Inducks submission: 1949-07-21)
- Publication date: 1949, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 256
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: DD having trouble hiding HDL's presents
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W OS 256-04
box of tools for christmas
Wonder if
Santa brought us
what we ordered?
-- nephews
(Inducks description:
Tied-Down Tools)
- Inducks: W OS 256-04
- Barrier: MBAC-109
- CBL: 02A-168
- Type: gag
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: [unknown]
(Inducks writer: ?)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1949, July 21
(Inducks submission: 1949-07-21)
- Publication date: 1949, (December)
(Inducks publication date: 1949-12)
- Issue: Donald Duck One Shot 256
- Pages: 1
(Inducks pages: 1)
- Inducks description: HDL use their tool Christmas presents instantly; Tied-Down Tools
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