A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

Surviving material: Original art of page 4. It survived because a very eager Donald Duck strip reader wrote to Dell Publishing in 1940s and asked for any original Donald Duck strip. The point was that he had read newspaper strips, which were drawn by Al Taliaferro. Later these two half pages were sold and resold as Taliaferro's art, until someone noticed the real artist. On the bottom half-page there is one correction. Barks has at first drawn stitches on the live rat and corrected them on the toy rat (in panel 4.6).

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W WDC 53-02 tramp steamer

(Inducks description: The Tramp Steamer)

Inducks: W WDC 53-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07A-235
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, October 6 (Inducks submission: 1944-10-06)
Publication date: 1945, February (Inducks publication date: 1945-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 53, Vol. 5, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Steam freighter job to Acapulco; The Tramp Steamer

Sources

W WDC 54-02 skating race to pumpkinburg

(Inducks description: The Long Race to Pumpkinburg)

Inducks: W WDC 54-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07A-245
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, October 27 (Inducks submission: 1944-10-27)
Publication date: 1945, March (Inducks publication date: 1945-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 54, Vol. 5, No. 6
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Ice skate race

Congruences:

QMS 1939-006: (Several elements, currently unidentified.)

Sources

W WDC 55-02 cowpunchin'

(Inducks description: Webfooted Wrangler)

Inducks: W WDC 55-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07B-257
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, December 1 (Inducks submission: 1944-12-01)
Publication date: 1945, April (Inducks publication date: 1945-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 55, Vol. 5, No. 7
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD tries to show HDL that he's a good horseman; Donald Learns the Ropes; Webfooted Wrangler

Appearances: Rattlesnake, meanest hoss in forty-seven states (2.5)

Sources

W WDC 56-02 icebox sleep-walking

(Inducks description: The Icebox Robber)

Inducks: W WDC 56-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07B-267
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, January ? (Inducks submission: 1945-01)
Publication date: 1945, May (Inducks publication date: 1945-05)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 56, Vol. 5, No. 8
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD sleepwalker attacks the fridge at night; The Icebox Robber

Research: Sleepwalking Donald believes he's in a "Jap ambush". (7.4) This is a reference to World War II.

Sources

W WDC 57-02 woodpecker photographing

(Inducks description: Pecking Order)

Inducks: W WDC 57-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07B-277
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, February 2 (Inducks submission: 1945-02-02)
Publication date: 1945, June (Inducks publication date: 1945-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 57, Vol. 5, No. 9
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

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W WDC 58-02 grand canyon of the colorado

Love Trouble, by Floyd Gottfredson

Stay where you are! If I save you, I'll be a hero! So I'm going to save you!
-- Donald Duck

(Inducks description: Taming the Rapids)

Inducks: W WDC 58-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07B-287
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, March 9 (Inducks submission: 1945-03-09)
Publication date: 1945, July (Inducks publication date: 1945-07)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 58, Vol. 5, No. 10
Pages: 8 (Inducks pages: 8)
Inducks description: DD catches 300 foxes by accident; Ducks fall from canyon and have to face rapids

Layout: Pages have 10 to 12 panels each, most have 12.

Research: The woman on the left in panel 9.8 also appears in the 17 June 1941 strip of Floyd Gottfredson / Merril de Maris' "Mickey Mouse in Love trouble" (Mickey Mouse dailies 14 April 1941 - 5 July 1941, reprinted in WDC 36 to 39).
(See illustration, taken from a Dutch reprint.)

Congruences:

W OS 79-01 and The Riddle of the Red Hat: Submitted the next month, on 1945, April 27. Floyd Gottfredson's 1941 Mickey Mouse story "Love Trouble" was used as study.

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

W WDC 59-01 wild colt taming

(Inducks description: Days at the Lazy K)

Inducks: W WDC 59-01
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07B-301
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, April 3 (Inducks submission: 1945-04-03)
Publication date: 1945, August (Inducks publication date: 1945-08)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 59, Vol. 5, No. 11
Pages: 8 (Inducks pages: 8)
Inducks description: tries to tame a wild little horse

Layout: Pages have 10 to 12 panels each, most have 12.

Sources

W WDC 60-02 radar set

(Inducks description: Eyes in the Dark)

Inducks: W WDC 60-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07B-309
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, March 12 (Inducks submission: 1945-05-12)
Publication date: 1945, September (Inducks publication date: 1945-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 60, Vol. 5, No. 12
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: tracking HDL with radar; Eyes in the Dark

Layout: Pages have 10 to 12 panels each.

Research: As part of Donald's feather ornament, swastikas can be seen. (5.4)

Sources

W WDC 61-02 thug busters inc.

(Inducks description: Thug Busters)

Inducks: W WDC 61-02
Barrier: MBAC-168
CBL: 07B-319
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, May 31 (Inducks submission: 1945-05-31)
Publication date: 1945, October (Inducks publication date: 1945-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 61, Vol. 6, No. 1
Pages: 8 (Inducks pages: 8)
Inducks description: DD makes fun with HDL's detective skills

Layout: Pages have 9 to 11 panels each, most have 11.

Cross-references: Next monthly's «water ski race with wires and pulleys» contains a cross-reference.

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W WDC 62-02 water ski race with wires and pulleys

Why don't you look where you're going, you petrified roadhog?
Do you need the whole lake to grunt around in?
-- Donald Duck

(Inducks description: The Great Ski Race)

Inducks: W WDC 62-02
Barrier: MBAC-169
CBL: 07B-327
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, June 27 (Inducks submission: 1945-06-27)
Publication date: 1945, November (Inducks publication date: 1945-11)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 62, Vol. 6, No. 2
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Water ski race

Backstage: Donald ends up in jail in the last panel. (10.8) When Barks did the same in "The Firebug" (OS 108-02), submitted less than a month later, on July 19, 1945, the editor decided to turn the end of that story, into Donald waking up from a dream.

Cross-references: The nephews are bathing in pile of cash, and Donald comments: "The kids are rolling in money since they got that five hundred dollars reward for catching the bank bandit last month!" (1.1) This is a cross-reference to what happened in the previous monthly, in «thug busters inc.».

Questions: Donald ends up in a brick building with metal bars on the window. It looks like a jail or prison. A sign in front says "durance vile" (old fashioned English form of unpleasant endurance - meaning imprisonment or confinement). Is this a phrase formerly (or currently) used by judges in USA or The British Commonwealth of Nations in sentencing defendents found guilty?

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W WDC 63-02 lost ten-dollar bill

Men! I hate 'em!
-- Esmeralda (Miss Moosey's parrot)

(Inducks description: Ten-Dollar Dither)

Inducks: W WDC 63-02
Barrier: MBAC-169
CBL: 07B-339
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, August 2 (Inducks submission: 1945-08-02)
Publication date: 1945, December (Inducks publication date: 1945-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 63, Vol. 6, No. 3
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD can't find the owner of a money bill; looking for owner of lost money bill

Changes: In an April 1968 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks said the ducks' halos in the last panel were added by an editor.

Status: Since the halos seem to have been added in empty parts of the panel, apparently no art was damaged.

CBL-notes: (R) In the last panel of this story, the halos added by the Western editors are removed. Panel as printed by Western is not shown.

Reconstructions: In "The Carl Barks Library - Set VII" the halos are removed.

Correspondence:

April 1968 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

Other views:

panel with halos included: taken from a reprint in Dutch "Beste Verhalen" album No. 4

Sources

W WDC 64-02 resolution to hold temper

I'm a wildcat, am I? Take that!.. And that!..
How dare you suggest that I lose my temper!
-- Daisy Duck

(Inducks description: Donald Tames His Temper)

Inducks: W WDC 64-02
Barrier: MBAC-169
CBL: 07B-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, September 19 (Inducks submission: 1945-09-19)
Publication date: 1946, January (Inducks publication date: 1946-01)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 64, Vol. 6, No. 4
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: taming his temper as New Year's resolution; Donald Tames His Temper

Trivia: Donald's address is mentioned as "Oak Street" (10.9).

Backstage: In a 1945 cartoon titled «Cured Duck», Daisy demands that Donald controls his hot temper, but finally reveals herself to be just as volatile. Barks's story builds on the same idea. According to Tom Andrae, in the Carl Barks Library, it may well have been sparked by that cartoon.

Research: The nephews' say that Donald has forty pounds of sugar hidden in the garage. (6.3) This could be a reference to World War II, to rationing and hoarding.

Congruences:

W WDC 173-02 solemn new years resolutions: New year's resolutions
W WDC 185-02 secret new year's resolutions: New year's resolutions

Sources

CS WDC 64 christmas caroling at peoples' doors

Great Scott! Those sounds come from living beings!
-- unnamed person

(Inducks:

Inducks: CS WDC 64
Barrier: MBAC-198
CBL: 10C-689
Type: story
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, August 31 (Inducks submission: 1945-08-31)
Publication date: 1976 (Europe); 1981 (USA) (Inducks publication date: 1976)
Issue: Inkt No. 6 (The Netherlands, Europe);; The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck (USA)
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 9 h)
Intended issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 64, Vol. 6, No. 4
Intended publication date: 1945, December
Inducks description: Christmas violence

Additional credits: Christmas story intended for WDC 64. It was rejected for being too sacrilegious and un-Disney. Detailed information

Description: Donald is gushing over with the Christmas spirit and he decides to sing the carol "Silent Night" at peoples' doors. After two unsuccessful attempts, Donald starts singing for neighbour Jones and this soon ends up in a not-so-silent night after all.

Surviving material:

Pages 1B to 10.: Published in The Carl Barks Library - Set X.; In Europe, the surviving art was first published in The Netherlands in "Inkt" No. 6, 1976.

Lost material: CZ WDC 64 christmas caroling at peoples' doors [lost cut material]

Status: Page 1A is lost.

CBL-notes: Colored.

Reconstructions:

HC DD1986-52B christmas caroling at peoples' doors [reconstruction of missing art]: Reconstruction of page 1A. By Robert Klein and Michel Nadorp
D 2001-068 christmas caroling at peoples' doors [remake of reconstruction]: Reconstruction of page 1A. By David Gerstein and Daan Jippes

Remakes: See "reconstructions" field.

Congruences:

W WDC 248-01 Terrible Tourist: Intentional remake. Tourist Donald plays serenades for señoritas.

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CZ WDC 64 christmas caroling at peoples' doors [lost cut material]

(Inducks:

Inducks: CZ WDC 64
Barrier: MBAC-198
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, August 31 (Inducks submission: 1945-08-31)
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 0 1/2 (Inducks pages: 0 h)
Intended issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 64, Vol. 6, No. 4
Intended publication date: 1946, January
Inducks description: Christmas Violence

Additional credits: See christmas caroling at peoples' doors, for more information.

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W WDC 65-02 parrot joe from singapore

(Inducks description: Singapore Joe)

Inducks: W WDC 65-02
Barrier: MBAC-169
CBL: 07B-359
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, October 4 (Inducks submission: 1945-10-04)
Publication date: 1946, February (Inducks publication date: 1946-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 65, Vol. 6, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: HDL are given a parrot

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W WDC 66-02 ice fishing

(Inducks description: Master Ice-Fisher)

Inducks: W WDC 66-02
Barrier: MBAC-169
CBL: 07B-369
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, October 27 (Inducks submission: 1945-10-27)
Publication date: 1946, March (Inducks publication date: 1946-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 66, Vol. 6, No. 6
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Ice-fishing competition

Research: Donald goes to a "war surplus" store (7.3). This store doesn't sell depth bombs and so Donald asks for dynamite (7.4). This scene could be a reference to World War II.

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W WDC 67-02 jet motors

(Inducks description: Jet Rescue)

Inducks: W WDC 67-02
Barrier: MBAC-169
CBL: 07B-379
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, November 23 (Inducks submission: 1945-11-23)
Publication date: 1946, April (Inducks publication date: 1946-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 67, Vol. 6, No. 7
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

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W WDC 68-02 greatest kite maker of all time

If a small kite will fly two hundred feet up, a big kite should go a mile into the blue!
-- Donald Duck

(Inducks description: Donald's Monster Kite)

Inducks: W WDC 68-02
Barrier: MBAC-169
CBL: 07B-389
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 4 (Inducks submission: 1946-01-04)
Publication date: 1946, May (Inducks publication date: 1946-05)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 68, Vol. 6, No. 8
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Giant kite carries DD's car along with him

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W WDC 69-02 muscle building outfit

Grunt!
-- Deltoid Biceppa

(Inducks description: Biceps Blues)

Inducks: W WDC 69-02
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07B-339
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, February 1 (Inducks submission: 1946-02-01)
Publication date: 1946, June (Inducks publication date: 1946-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 69, Vol. 6, No. 9
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD wants to gain muscles to impress DA; Biceps Blues

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W WDC 70-02 smugsnorkle squatty

Siwash, show these rude rowdies your education! Spell 'mississippi'!
-- Donald Duck

(Inducks description: The Smugsnorkle Squattie)

Inducks: W WDC 70-02
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07B-409
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, February 28 (Inducks submission: 1946-02-28)
Publication date: 1946, July (Inducks publication date: 1946-07)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 70, Vol. 6, No. 10
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD's "ingenious" dog vs. HDL's smart one; The Smugsnorkle Squatty

CBL-notes: Panels 9.5, 9.6, 10.1 and 10.2 are redrawn.

Appearances: Herbert (1.2); Tagalong (Herbert's pup, 1.2 and 5.4); "Dogs" (book title, 2.7); gracklehound (2.1); boxhead bleagle (2.2); smugsnorkle squatty (smartest dogs in the world, mentioned on page 88 of "Dogs" book, 2.4); Grand Genius III of Old Siwash (name of Donald's smugsnorkle squatty, has a mile long pedigree and is trained, 3.5 and 8.8); Siwash (nephews' name for Grand Genius III of Old Siwash, 3.6); Super Bite Dog Biskits (3.7); Swankmore Kennels (seller of the smugsnorkle squatty, 8.8); Blitz Stump Removers (mentioned on sign with slogan "We blast with care", 9.8); Herbert's father (mentioned as trainer of "substitutes for setting hens", 10.7).

Details: Panel 2.4 spells "smugsnorkle squatty". Panels 2.5 and 2.7 spell "smugsnorkle squattie". Panels 3.1 and 3.2 spell "squattie"

Questions: Is the reprint in "The Carl Barks Library" (except for the four redrawn panels) identical to the reprint in "Walt Disney's Comics & Stories" No. 305, 1966?
Also, in panel 10.7 the second balloon has an odd shape, as if the balloon was enlarged to fit the word "substitutes" into it. Is this also the case in the original comic?

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W WDC 71-02 swimming race and fishing net

(Inducks description: Swimming Swindlers)

Inducks: W WDC 71-02
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07B-441
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, March 26 (Inducks submission: 1946-03-26)
Publication date: 1946, August (Inducks publication date: 1946-08)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 71, Vol. 6, No. 11
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: HDL get advice from boys in cheating DD in a swim race

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W WDC 72-02 hookey players and sandwiches

I'll get out of this gravel sometime, and when I do I'll make hamburger atoms of those kids!
-- Donald Duck

(Inducks description: Playin' Hookey)

Inducks: W WDC 72-02
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07B-451
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, April 25 (Inducks submission: 1946-04-25)
Publication date: 1946, September (Inducks publication date: 1946-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 72, Vol. 6, No. 12
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Truant lesson

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W WDC 73-02 gold-finding machine

(Inducks description: The Gold-Finder)

Inducks: W WDC 73-02
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07B-461
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, May 27 (Inducks submission: 1946-05-27)
Publication date: 1946, October (Inducks publication date: 1946-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 73, Vol. 7, No. 1
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: HDL's gold-finder machine breaks DD's watch

Congruences:

...: A gold-finding machine goes berserk and attacks Donald.

Sources

W WDC 74-01 bill colectors

(Inducks description: The Tax-Collectors)

Inducks: W WDC 74-01
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07B-471
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, June 14 (Inducks submission: 1946-06-14)
Publication date: 1946, November (Inducks publication date: 1946-11)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 74, Vol. 7, No. 2
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

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W WDC 75-01 raffle turkey pet

(Inducks description: Turkey Trouble)

Inducks: W WDC 75-01
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07C-515
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, July 8 (Inducks submission: 1946-07-08)
Publication date: 1946, December (Inducks publication date: 1946-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 75, Vol. 7, No. 3
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

Appearances: Thanksgiving [Day] (1.2); Potto Gas (1.3); Finnegan's Hall (A.D. 1906, "Hocus plus pocus", location of raffle at ten o'clock A.M., tickets $1.00, prize is a turkey, 1.6, 2.4 and 2.5); 236037 (number on the raffle ticket, 2.1); Barks Dog Soup (4.2); Raffles (name for the male turkey won by the nephews, 4.3); Oolated Squiggs (4.4); Acme Swofs (4.4); Texas (5.3); Watson (5.3); Southside Park (5.4); Southside Good Joes' Turkey Shoot (turkey shoot in Soutside Park, with a mortgage on the hall, three bullseyes out of five win a bird, 5.5 and 6.6); creek in Southside Park (5.6); San Pedro (5.8); Buffalo Bill (6.1); golf course near Southside Park (6.2).

Backstage: On panel 4.2, a can of "Barks Dog Soup" is shown in Donald's kitchen-cupboard. In a May 17, 1981, letter to Barrier, Barks wrote: "As for the can of dog food with Barks on it..., I probably put the name on it myself just to see if the editors would white it out." This is the only Barks story in which his name appears.

Joseph Cowles wrote in a August 2, 2000 e-mail:

"[Garé] said that Carl was always disappointed that he couldn't sign his art, and from time to time would try to sneak in his signature or some other means of identifying his work, but that the editors at Western usually discovered and removed it.

(Fans certainly didn't have any difficulty identifying "The Good Artist," but it does give one a glimpse of Barks' underlying insecurity in those days. At some level, he really did consider himself to be "a failed chicken farmer." He told me that he was longing for the day when he could retire from the grinding deadline pressures of cartooning, and thought he might be happiest opening up a little cabinet shop where he could work with his hands to create things from wood.)"

Only two issues later, on the cover of "Walt Disney Comics and Stories" No. 78, Barks name was mentioned by Walt Kelly (or Carl Buettner?). On the cover of this issue a box is labeled "Bark's [sic] Jiffy Chicken Dinner" - a reference to Barks' 1940s chicken farm at San Jacinto, California.

Research: In panel 1.7, Huey says: "The blue streak you see next will be Huey Duck on his way to a raffle!" At first glance, foreign readers might mistake this as a hint of what colour Huey's cap could be. (As happened on this site.)
In an August 1, 2006 email to the Disney Comics Mailing List, Dan Shane corrected: "Blue streak" is an American idiom that signifies anything moving at such high speed to essentially appear as a blur, so it would not matter what color clothing the individual was wearing. He would never be considered a streak of any color but blue."

Congruences:

QMU 1938-?11: shooting gallery with targets that cannot be knocked down.
W WDC 279-01 Once Upon a Carnival: shooting gallery with targets that cannot be knocked down.

Correspondence:

May 17, 1981 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

Updates: In panel 3.7, the nephews sing "Jingle Bells", which is an existant Christmas song.

Questions: In "The Carl Barks Library - Set VII" a thin line appears on the can with Acme Swofs (4.4), as if one of either words could have been added later. Is this also the case in the original comic?

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