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W WDC 31-05
victory garden
There's only one way to put in seeds - and that's any way!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
The Victory Garden)
- Inducks: W WDC 31-05
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-019
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: [unknown]
(Inducks writer: ?,Carl Barks(rewrite))
- Script rewriting: Carl Barks
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1942, December?
(Inducks submission: 1942-12)
- Publication date: 1943, April
(Inducks publication date: 1943-04)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 31, Vol. 3, No. 7
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: Ducks versus crows
Additional credits:
Barks has recalled that the script for that first Donald story - in which Donald defends
his Victory Garden from Crows - was sent to him by Western, which was then dealing with
its artists under the name of one of its subsidiaries, Whitman, while publishing Walt Disney's
Comics through another affiliate, K.K. Publications.
Detailed information
Layout:
Three tiers per page
Research:
Donald says: "We'll make our own Victory Garden, boys!" (1.1). In a
Januari 31, 2001 e-mail to the Disney Comics Mailing List, Don Rosa explained
the relation between a victory garden and wartime: "a Victory Garden is what
we Americans grew in the backyard during WWII to
do our part in the Home Front economy."
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W WDC 32-02
rabbit's foot test
Aw, phooey! This bridge will hold up an ele-phant!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
The Rabbit's Foot)
- Inducks: W WDC 32-02
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-029
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1942, December 23
(Inducks submission: 1942-12-23)
- Publication date: 1943, May
(Inducks publication date: 1943-05)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 32, Vol. 3, No. 8
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: DD faces escaped gorilla with HDL's rabbit foot
Layout:
Three tiers per page
Landmark:
The first Donald Duck story both written and drawn by Barks.
Research:
In Donald's imaginary newspaper "Daily Quack" (7.6) contains headlines like
"Hophead elected police chief", and "No more gas says OPA". The "hophead"
possibly is a 1940s slang term for someone who uses marijuana (an ancestor of
"pothead"). The "OPA" headline is a wartime
(WWII) reference to the Office of
Price Administration, the temporary federal agency charged with controlling
prices and running the rationing system. Gasoline was among the materials
rationed by OPA.
Congruences:
- W WDC 44-?1 This Month The Mad Chemist
- Reference to the Office of Price Administration (OPA)
- HC DD1986-52B christmas caroling at peoples' doors [reconstruction of missing art]
- Donald reading a book while saying "Great stuff! Great stuff!"
Questions:
Do you know more about the "hophead" slang term?
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W WDC 33-01
lifeguard and shark
A centipede shark that calls you uncle!!!
Pah! - What's this coming back here - another skinful of your relatives?
-- lady duck
(Inducks description:
Lifeguard Daze)
- Inducks: W WDC 33-01
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-039
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, January 29
(Inducks submission: 1943-01-29)
- Publication date: 1943, June
(Inducks publication date: 1943-06)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 33, Vol. 3, No. 9
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: As lifeguard trying to impress young lady (not DA)
Layout:
Three tiers per page
Changes:
Western found that Barks made the lady duck too buxom. "I had to spend more hours in the
publisher's office flattening out all those bosoms," he once recalled. In panel 10.6, in
which the kissing lady holds Donald against her, the change can obviously be seen because
of the gap between Donald and the lady.
Status:
Original version is lost.
Research:
In panel 1.2, Donald complains "doggone such a life!" "Doggone it" is and has been for many
years a common slang expression -- a mild exclamation, equal to "darn it" --
which is a non-profane way to say "Damn it." It is not considered cursing, and saying
"doggone it" to native English speakers now would indicate that you are VERY outdated in
American slang -- or that you have watched a lot of Westerns. (John Wayne and other
cowboy heroes have been known to say "doggone it.")
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W WDC 34-01
good deeds and fire sticks
You miserable mallard! You web-footed, shovel-nosed, poisonous reptile!
You pest! You snake! You-You scorpion! Why don't you fade?
-- Mr. Jones
(Inducks description:
Good Deeds)
- Inducks: W WDC 34-01
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-049
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, February 24
(Inducks submission: 1943-02-24)
- Publication date: 1943, July
(Inducks publication date: 1943-07)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 34, Vol. 3, No. 10
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: trying to make good deeds; DD tries to make good deeds, ends up in Africa
Layout:
- Three tiers per page
- Pages 2 to 10 have an identical strip of art at the top, with "Donald Duck"
lettered into it.
Landmark:
First appearance of a
"Mr. Jones" as
Donald's neighbour in a Barks story.
CBL-notes:
Reportedly, Johnny Grote's book
"Carl Barks Werkverzeichnis der Comics"
mentions that drawings of about 1 cm length are pieced on at the right border
of all pages.
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W WDC 35-01
limber w guest ranch
Are those horses or hat racks?
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
The Limber W Guest Ranch)
- Inducks: W WDC 35-01
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-059
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, March 17
(Inducks submission: 1943-03-17)
- Publication date: 1943, August
(Inducks publication date: 1943-08)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 35, Vol. 3, No. 11
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: DD takes care of a ranch and is fooled by horse thief several times
Layout:
- Three tiers per page
- Pages 2 to 10 have an identical strip of art at the top, with "Donald Duck"
lettered into it. This strip of art looks the same as in
W WDC 34-01 good deeds and fire sticks.
Research:
The wrangler of the ranch comments about his remaining horses:
"They're the best we have, podner, the army drafted all our mounts under 28
years of age!" (1.4). This is a reference to
World War II.
Donald, being thirsty, longs for "root beer" (6.4) and "Lemonade, limeade, ginger beer, root
ale, malted soda... Coca pop!..." (7.1) Despite the use of the words "beer" and "ale", these
drinks are not alcoholic. In an April 4, 2001 e-mail to the Disney Comics Mailing List,
David Gerstein explained: "Root beer and ginger ale are typical American sodas, and I think
Donald is supposed to be getting the names confused (though it doesn't work very well, as
ginger beer is another word for ginger ale). A malted soda is a malted *ice cream* soda, an
American soda fountain drink. Coca pop is now outdated slang for Coca-Cola type drinks."
On the same day, same list, Vic Pratt replied that ginger beer is "a popular drink here in
England...actually, it is quite different to ginger ale, which is more specifically a mixer
drink...ginger beer is usually imbibed on its own...once upon a time, I believe, it had a
small amount of alcohol in it, when it was home-made..."
Questions:
Could this be the first time that the nephews use their knowlegde of natural phenomena,
like they would regularly do in later stories? In panel 4.7 they know that they're going
further away from the ranch instead of getting closer to it: "When we left the ranch,
the sun was on our right shoulder!" / "It is three hours higher now, and hitting the back
of our necks!" / "We're goin' AWAY from the ranch!"
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W WDC 36-?1
in "The Mighty Trapper"
Unca Donald is a windbag!
If he trapped for as many winters as he claims,
he'd be sixty-five years old - I kept count!
-- nephews
(Inducks:
The Mighty Trapper)
- Inducks: W WDC 36-?1
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-069
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, April 20
(Inducks submission: 1943-04-20)
- Publication date: 1943, September
(Inducks publication date: 1943-09)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 36, Vol. 3, No. 12
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: DD brags about his hunting skills
Layout:
- Three tiers per page
- Pages 2 to 10 have an identical strip of art at the top, with the story's title,
"The Mighty Trapper", lettered into it.
Landmark:
- Barks' first Walt Disney Comics and Stories ten-pager with a title included.
- First appearance of Daisy in a Barks story.
Appearances:
"Santa Fe", "The Fur Hunters", "Kit Carson", "The Old West" (booktitles, 1.1); City Dog Pound (5.5),
S. McPooch (poundmaster, 5.6); Schnapps (police dog, panel 6.1); Ratty Trap Co. (mousetrap company, 10.6).
Research:
In panel 7 of page 5, one of the nephews says that they might catch a wolf as big
as a bohimaton. In a December 11, 1991 interview, Barks told Geoffrey Blum about the origin
of the word.
Detailed information
Interviews:
- 1978 interview by Michael Barrier
- December 11, 1991 interview by Geoffrey Blum
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W WDC 38-02
in "Good Neighbors"
Nice leaky roof yah got there, Jonesie, ol' snake!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks:
Good Neighbors)
- Inducks: W WDC 38-02
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-081
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, June 22
(Inducks submission: 1943-06-22)
- Publication date: 1943, November
(Inducks publication date: 1943-11)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 38, Vol. 4, No. 2
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: Neighbor's fight with a football
Layout:
- Three tiers per page
- Pages 2 to 10 have an identical strip of art at the top, using a garden-hose for
the lettering of the story's title. At the right of the garden-hose, Neigbor Jones
opens the faucet. At the left of the garden-hose, Donald gets the water into his face.
Landmark:
First appearance of the
"classic" neighbor Mr.Jones.
Research:
In panel 7.6, Donald orders his nephews: "Get me one of those firecrackers you're savin'
for the fourth - the biggest one you have!" The "fourth" is a reference to the American
"4th of July", where the tradition is to spend the whole evening setting off firecrackers.
Questions:
Could the saving of firecrackers be a reference to World War II?
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W WDC 39-01
in Salesman Donald
You'd love to buy a nice egg beater, wouldn't you, fuzzy face?
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks:
Salesman Donald)
- Inducks: W WDC 39-01
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-093
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, July 23
(Inducks submission: 1943-07-23)
- Publication date: 1943, December
(Inducks publication date: 1943-12)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 39, Vol. 4, No. 3
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: DD tries to sell mixer to hermit
Layout:
- Three tiers per page
- Pages 2 to 10 have an identical strip of art at the top, with the story's title,
"Salesman Donald", lettered into it.
Surviving material:
CM 17 bearded hermit [studies]
Appearances:
Whizo egg beaters (1.1); an old sourpuss (mistress of the house, 2.1); a queer
reclusive (hermit in an old shack outside the city limits, living on roots and
herbs, 3.7).
Congruences:
- QMU 1940-?02
- Donald as salesman
- W OS 263-02 in "Land of the Totem Poles"
- Donald as salesman
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W WDC 40-01
in Snow Fun
Ah, snow!
To thee an ode we owe!
Thy glisten makes sparkles
where dirt used to show!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks:
Snow Fun)
- Inducks: W WDC 40-01
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-103
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, August 28
(Inducks submission: 1943-08-28)
- Publication date: 1944, January
(Inducks publication date: 1944-01)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 40, Vol. 4, No. 4
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: DD performes the most daring ski jump ever
Layout:
- Three tiers per page
- Pages 2 to 10 have an identical strip of art at the top, with the story's title,
"Snow Fun", lettered into it (as words made of snow).
Landmark:
The nephews refer to their scout master (4.3).
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W WDC 41-01
The Duck in the Iron Pants
Nothing can save you from me! I am invincible! I am doom itself!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks:
The Duck in the Iron Pants)
- Inducks: W WDC 41-01
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-113
- Type: story, three tiers per page
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 1943, September 22
(Inducks submission: 1943-09-22)
- Publication date: 1944, February
(Inducks publication date: 1944-02)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 41, Vol. 4, No. 5
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: wears armor for snowball battle against HDL
- Painting version: Duck in the Iron Pants
- Painting version: A Hot Defense
Layout:
- Three tiers per page
- Opening panel (1.1) is used as preview of the story.
- Pages 2 to 10 have an identical strip of art at the top, with the story's title,
"The Duck in the Iron Pants", lettered into it.
Appearances:
Mexico (5.6); Gem Stove Co. (6.8).
Congruences:
- QMS 1942-005
- snowfight between Donald and the nephews
- W WDC 198-02 suppressed desire party
- Donald wearing armor.
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W WDC 42-02
in Kite Weather
Oh, goodneth! Ith that all the higher you can fly a kite?
Dearie me! You mutht not know much about it!
-- Donald Duck (disguised as a cute litte girl)
(Inducks:
Kite Weather)
- Inducks: W WDC 42-02
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-123
- 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, October 20
(Inducks submission: 1943-10-20)
- Publication date: 1944, March
(Inducks publication date: 1944-03)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 42, Vol. 4, No. 6
- Pages: 7
(Inducks pages: 7)
- Inducks description: DD disguised as little girl to annoy HDL while flying kites
Layout:
Three tiers per page (as originally drawn).
Changes:
This story was written and drawn as a ten-page story with three-tier pages, but published
as a seven-pager. It was cut up, panels were trimmed or expanded and the panels were pasted
up in eight- or ten-panel (four-tier) pages instead of the original six-panel (three-tier)
pages. In some panels, drawings not by Barks were added to fill in the empty space caused
by the alterations in his panels. Apparently, no panels were omitted.
Detailed information
Status:
Original version is lost.
CBL-notes:
The bottom half of page 6 is redrawn.
In "The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 3" a reconstruction of the
story's original layout is used, unfortunately also with the redrawn art.
Reconstructions:
The comic "Mickey and Donald" No. 15 (1989) published an attempt in
converting "Kite Weather" into a ten-pager again. Unfortunately, one reconstructed
page used redrawn art as a source.
Questions:
Could this story also have contained a strip of art on top of pages 2 to 10,
before it was changed into a four-tier seven-pager?
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W WDC 43-02
Now Showing "Three Dirty Little Ducks"
Hunk-uh!
-- Herbert
(Inducks:
Three Dirty Little Ducks)
- Inducks: W WDC 43-02
- Barrier: MBAC-166
- CBL: 07A-131
- 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, November 27
(Inducks submission: 1943-11-27)
- Publication date: 1944, April
(Inducks publication date: 1944-04)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 43, Vol. 4, No. 7
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
Layout:
Opening panel (1.1) is used as preview of the story.
Landmark:
- First Barks Duck story drawn in a four tier layout.
- First appearance of Bolivar in a Barks story.
- First appearance of Herbert.
Research:
Donald holds a box of "pre-war Bon-bons" (3.5). This is a reference to
World War II.
Questions:
Could this story be the first one in which Donald and the nephews have an adult-kid
rivalry? In this story the nephews intentionally annoy "parent" Donald by not following his
order to go bathing. In earlier stories like
W OS 29-02 in "The Hard Loser",
W WDC 40-01 in Snow Fun, and
W WDC 41-01 The Duck in the Iron Pants, there's also rivalry between
Donald and the nephews, but in these stories Donald acts more like a "fourth nephew" than
an adult. Even more because Donald is the cause of the rivalry in these stories.
(The nephews only react to the tricks Donald has played on them.)
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W WDC 44-?1
This Month The Mad Chemist
Will you children stop talking? I must have quiet if I am to use my vast
mental powers!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks:
The Mad Chemist)
- Inducks: W WDC 44-?1
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-141
- 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, December 30
(Inducks submission: 1943-12-30)
- Publication date: 1944, May
(Inducks publication date: 1944-05)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 44, Vol. 4, No. 8
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: DD becomes a mad chemist and invents a powerful explosive
Landmark:
Barks' first story showing a close-up of the moon. Donald's rocket ship travels around
the moon. In panel 9.6, Donald says: "If people could see this view of the moon, they
wouldn't sing songs about it!"
In comparison with real life, Donald's mid-1940s view of the moon is far ahead of
its time. In 1959, the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft returned the first images of
the far side of the Earth's moon. After six failed attempts, the Americans finally got
their first close-up images of the moon five years later with the successful flight of
Ranger 7.
Research:
The formulae floating above Donald's head, in panel 1.7,
mentions "OPA". This refers to
World War II. "OPA" stands for
the Office of Price Administration, the temporary federal agency charged
with controlling prices and running the rationing system.
Donald decides: "I'm going to test Duckmite as a substitute for gasoline!" (5.4)
Gasoline was among the materials rationed by OPA.
Before Donald goes to the moon, he says to the nephews: "Save my ration
points so I can have a steak when I come back!" (7.10)
Research:
It seems Donald's reference to CH2, in
panel 2.1, was years ahead of its time: the existence of this
elusive chemical intermediate had not been proven in 1944.
Detailed information
Congruences:
- W WDC 32-02 rabbit's foot test
- Reference to the Office of Price Administration (OPA)
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W WDC 45-02
This Month's Thriller - Rival Boatmen
(Inducks:
Rival Boatmen)
- Inducks: W WDC 45-02
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-153
- Type: story
- Art: Carl Barks
(Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
- Script: Carl Barks
(Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
- Hero: Donald Duck
(Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
- Submission: 194,
(Inducks submission: 1944-01-19)
- Publication date: 1944, June
(Inducks publication date: 1944-06)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 45, Vol. 4, No. 9
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: Renting boat competition
CBL-notes:
Possibly, the text "This Month's Thriller" has been removed. (See questions.)
Appearances:
J.P. Daimondtubs, the millionaire (1.6, identical to Black Pete)
Questions:
The Carl Barks Library only shows "Rival Boatmen" in the opening panel.
What does the original publication contain?
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W WDC 46-02
in "Camera Crazy"
This picture'll be titled - "How the safety net looks to a person
jumping!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks:
Camera Crazy)
- Inducks: W WDC 46-02
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-163
- 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, February 29
(Inducks submission: 1944-02-29)
- Publication date: 1944, July
(Inducks publication date: 1944-07)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 46, Vol. 4, No. 10
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: To get a good photo for the news DD frees a bear; DD releases zoo's bear to take sensationalistic photos
Description:
Donald and the nephews compete at taking pictures to sell to the newspaper.
Landmark:
Up to "The Good Deeds" (WDC 229), this is Barks' last Walt Disney Comics and Stories
ten-pager with a title included.
Appearances:
Potts Pottery (2.1); Daily Gripe (2.8); Daredevil Daly, the human depth bomb (4.2);
Flimsybilts Apts. (5.5); Prof. Whizo (8.2); Riot Squad (8.7)
Research:
In an August 2, 2000 e-mail, Joseph Cowles wrote about Barks' own interest in photography:
"Barks enjoyed photography a great deal, was excellent at it back when it took a
great deal more capability to obtain good photographs than it does today. He took copious
amounts of 35MM color slides. These he used as reference for many of his drawings, which
enabled him to illustrate local haciendas, bridges, mountain ranges, trees, roadways and many
other things with accuracy.
Some scenes [my wife] Barb and I have recognized from time to time, on our drives
around the southland. I bet you that somewhere Barks has a cache of every photo he ever
took - numbered,
dated and described. Now that's a whole new area for fans to explore: the relationship to Barks'
photos and his cartoon panels. And it would be an historical adventure, too, showing what
southern California looked like back in the halcyon days of the 40's and 50's."
In a July 29, 2000 e-mail, Joseph Cowles wrote:
"I do not have photos of me with Carl Barks, although surely there must have been
some taken on one of my visits with him and Garé. The
one signed photo I have of Barks is accompanied by a letter telling about his new camera
and how he took the picture."
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W WDC 47-02
falcon farragut
(Inducks description:
Farragut the Falcon)
- Inducks: W WDC 47-02
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-175
- 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, April 1
(Inducks submission: 1944-04-01)
- Publication date: 1944, August
(Inducks publication date: 1944-08)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 47, Vol. 4, No. 11
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: trains a falcon; Farragut the Falcon
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W WDC 48-02
borrowed putty
(Inducks description:
The Purloined Putty)
- Inducks: W WDC 48-02
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-185
- 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, April 26
(Inducks submission: 1944-04-26)
- Publication date: 1948, September
(Inducks publication date: 1944-09)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 48, Vol. 4, No. 12
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: Plaster trap
Research:
The nephews comment: "The store" / "didn't have
any" / "linseed oil!" / "It's hard to get these
days," / "and the store won't have anymore" / "till
friday!" (10.6 - 10.7) This is a reference to
World War II.
Cross-references:
Almost certainly, «Fued and Far Between»
contains a cross-reference to Donald's wheel-chair trick (8.4).
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W WDC 49-02
tight-wire walkers
The kids'll make fools of themselves! I want to be there to see it!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
High-wire Daredevils)
- Inducks: W WDC 49-02
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-195
- 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, May 26
(Inducks submission: 1944-05-26)
- Publication date: 1944, October
(Inducks publication date: 1944-10)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 49, Vol. 5, No. 1
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: DD walks on the line over waterfall
Landmark:
First appearance of the name "Duckburg",
mentioned on a sign in panel 10.8 ("Duckburg 2096 miles").
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W WDC 50-02
five hundred dollar dime
Yippee! I'm rich! I've got my dime back!
-- Donald Duck
(Inducks description:
Ten Cent's Worth of Trouble)
- Inducks: W WDC 50-02
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-205
- 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, June 22
(Inducks submission: 1944-06-22)
- Publication date: 1944, November
(Inducks publication date: 1944-11)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 50, Vol. 5, No. 2
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
- Inducks description: HDL buy ice-cream with DD's rare coin
Appearances:
O.Shurits Safe Co. (1.1); Herbert (1.6); Dr. Peek (2.8); Triple-decker Cone Chateau
(3.3); ornery cranky old coot (3.6); Dante's Inferno (booktitle, 5.2); Mister Picklepuss,
which is how Donald calls the ornery cranky old coot (6.3); Ge[m] Taxi Co. (8.4, 8.8);
Poochley, full of superstitions (8.8)
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W WDC 51-02
modern seaside home
(Inducks description:
Donald's Bay Lot)
- Inducks: W WDC 51-02
- Barrier: MBAC-168
- CBL: 07A-215
- 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, July 27
(Inducks submission: 1944-07-27)
- Publication date: 1944, December
(Inducks publication date: 1944-12)
- Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 51, Vol. 5, No. 3
- Pages: 10
(Inducks pages: 10)
Research:
Though it's less conclusive, the mine hooked by Donald could be a reference
to World War II. (9.7)
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