A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

Inducks: W WDC 173-00
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-086
Type: cover
Art: [unknown]
Pencil: [Carl Barks] (Inducks artist: Paul Murry)
Script: [Carl Barks?] (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, August 12; [1954] (Inducks submission: 1954-08-12)
Publication date: 1955, February (Inducks publication date: 1955-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 173, Vol. 15, No. 5
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Balloons out of handcloth; Balloons out of rubber gloves
Based on: rubber glove finger balloons [rough pencil layout]

Additional credits: Barks: "Inking was done in the office. Don't remember the reasons."

Status: No pencil layout is known to have surfaced.

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W WDC 173-02 solemn new years resolutions

(Inducks description: New Year's Revolutions)

Inducks: W WDC 173-02
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-087
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, March 25 (Inducks submission: 1954-03-25)
Publication date: 1955, February (Inducks publication date: 1955-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 173, Vol. 15, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: New Year's resolutions (ski jumps)

Landmark: For the first time in many years, a story involving clashes between Donald and the nephews.

Details: Barks mentions "Duckberg" in panel 9.7

Cross-references: Next year's «secret new year's resolutions» contains a cross-reference.

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W WDC 174-00 coin passing through piggy bank

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 174-00
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-086
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, October 14 (Inducks submission: 1954-10-14)
Publication date: 1955, March (Inducks publication date: 1955-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 174, Vol. 15, No. 6
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Coin falls through piggy bank

Changes: Barks: "Somebody at Dell redrew Donald's head."

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W WDC 174-02 iceboat mail carrier

(Inducks description: Ice Boat to Beaver Island)

Inducks: W WDC 174-02
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-097
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, April 22 (Inducks submission: 1954-04-22)
Publication date: 1955, March (Inducks publication date: 1955-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 174, Vol. 15, No. 6
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: transporting mail to island by motorized sledge

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W WDC 175-00 quarrel over checkers

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 175-00
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-085
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, October 14 (Inducks submission: 1954-10-14)
Publication date: 1955, April (Inducks publication date: 1955-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 175, Vol. 15, No. 7
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: bored at checker game

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W WDC 175-01 taffy trouble

(Inducks description: The Daffy Taffy Pull)

Inducks: W WDC 175-01
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-107
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, June 17 (Inducks submission: 1954-06-17)
Publication date: 1955, April (Inducks publication date: 1955-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 175, Vol. 15, No. 7
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Missing ring in candy

Surviving material:

CX WDC 175 taffy trouble [surviving cut material]: One and a quarter pages of unpublished, alternate art. Numbered as the last two panels of page 6 and all of page 7.

Detailed information

Correspondence:

circa 1971 note to Thomas Andrae

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CX WDC 175 taffy trouble [surviving cut material]

(Inducks:

Inducks: CX WDC 175
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-117
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: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1985, June (Inducks publication date: 1981)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set IX
Pages: 1 2/8 (Inducks pages: 1 2/8)
Intended issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 175, Vol. 15, No. 7
Intended publication date: 1955, April
Inducks description: Taffy; The pages that Barks cut out before the story was published

Additional credits: See taffy trouble, for more information.

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W WDC 176-00 report card

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 176-00
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-120
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1953, November 6 (idea); 1954, February 11 (art) (Inducks submission: 1954-02-11)
Publication date: 1955, May (Inducks publication date: 1955-05)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 176, Vol. 15, No. 8
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: HDL with bad school report cards and pillows on tails; Bad school results

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W WDC 176-02 ghost town hiccups

Look at the empty saddles! And only yesterday they laughed at his pearl-handed six-guns
with the inlaid silver filigree on the barrels!
-- nephew, about Trigger Stronghart

(Inducks description: The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp)

Inducks: W WDC 176-02
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-121
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, July 22 (Inducks submission: 1954-07-22)
Publication date: 1955, May (Inducks publication date: 1955-05)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 176, Vol. 15, No. 8
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: ghost with hiccups; Hiccuping ghost at Far West town

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W WDC 177-00 wurld crooze

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 177-00
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-119
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, December 23 (Inducks submission: 1954-12-23)
Publication date: 1955, June (Inducks publication date: 1955-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 177, Vol. 15, No. 9
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Sail made of shirt; Donalds blouse for sail

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W WDC 177-01 skin diving vacation

(Inducks description: A Descent Interval)

Inducks: W WDC 177-01
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-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: 1954, July 29 (Inducks submission: 1954-07-29)
Publication date: 1955, June (Inducks publication date: 1955-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 177, Vol. 15, No. 9
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

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W WDC 178-00 quarrel over candy choice

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 178-00
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-120
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, December 23 (Inducks submission: 1954-12-23)
Publication date: 1955, July (Inducks publication date: 1955-07)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 178, Vol. 15, No. 10
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: HDL argue which candy to buy

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W WDC 178-02 quiet neighborhood

A set of tire chains raking up and down in the air pipes!
How do you like 'em, eh!
-- Donald Duck

(Inducks description: Donald's Raucous Role)

Inducks: W WDC 178-02
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-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: 1954, November 26 (Inducks submission: 1954-11-26)
Publication date: 1955, July (Inducks publication date: 1955-07)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 178, Vol. 15, No. 10
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: moving to silent hotel

Backstage: About hearing aids, Joseph Cowles wrote in a August 4, 2000 e-mail:

"Barks had been burdened with a hearing loss from childhood. In the 60's he wore heavy horn-rimmed glasses with thick earpieces that contained built-in hearing aids. He said that they were quite expensive, and didn't work all that well - distorting sounds. Some days he could hear pretty well with them, other times one had to speak loudly or repeat things several times. Back then he didn't use the telephone, so my phone conversations were exclusively with Garé. I imagine that eventually, with solid-state technology, his hearing situation may have improved."

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W WDC 179-02 canoe contest

(Inducks description: Good Canoes and Bad Canoes)

Inducks: W WDC 179-02
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-155
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1954, November 26 (Inducks submission: 1954-11-26)
Publication date: 1955, August (Inducks publication date: 1955-08)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 179, Vol. 15, No. 11
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Canoe competition; Good Canoes and Bad Canoes

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W WDC 180-01 insurance salesman

(Inducks description: Trouble Indemnity)

Inducks: W WDC 180-01
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-165
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, January 6 (Inducks submission: 1955-01-06)
Publication date: 1956, September (Inducks publication date: 1955-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 180, Vol. 15, No. 12
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD sells a big insurance policy to US

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W WDC 181-01 chickadee patrol contest

(Inducks description: The Chickadee Challenge)

Inducks: W WDC 181-01
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: 09A-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: 1955, January 6 (Inducks submission: 1955-01-06)
Publication date: 1956, October (Inducks publication date: 1955-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 181, Vol. 16, No. 1
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD helps JW, challenged by the Chickadees, to build a bridge

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W WDC 182-01 color blind pet bull

(Inducks description: The Unorthodox Ox)

Inducks: W WDC 182-01
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09A-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: 1955, January 6 (Inducks submission: 1955-01-06)
Publication date: 1956, November (Inducks publication date: 1955-11)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 182, Vol. 16, No. 2
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Bull that gets mad with blue ribbons; The Unorthodox Ox

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W WDC 183-00 model railroad

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 183-00
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09A-195
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, June 23 (Inducks submission: 1955-06-23)
Publication date: 1956, December (Inducks publication date: 1955-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 183, Vol. 16, No. 3
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Model train around Donald

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W WDC 183-01 custard gun

(Inducks description: The Custard Gun)

Inducks: W WDC 183-01
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09A-197
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, March 17 (Inducks submission: 1955-03-17)
Publication date: 1956, December (Inducks publication date: 1955-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 183, Vol. 16, No. 3
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Moose hunt with custard gun

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W WDC 184-01 christmas bath

(Inducks description: Three Un-Ducks)

Inducks: W WDC 184-01
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09A-207
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, March 31 (Inducks submission: 1955-03-31)
Publication date: 1956, January (Inducks publication date: 1956-01)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 184, Vol. 16, No. 4
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

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W WDC 185-02 secret new year's resolutions

(Inducks description: Secret Resolutions)

Inducks: W WDC 185-02
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09A-217
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, April 21 (Inducks submission: 1955-04-21)
Publication date: 1956, February (Inducks publication date: 1956-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 185, Vol. 16, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: New year resolutions in sealed envelope; Secret Resolutions

Cross-references: Donald and the nephews decide they won't tell their new year's resolutions to each other, because of the troubles that aroused one year earlier. (1.1 - 2.2) This is a cross-reference to «solemn new years resolutions», published a year earlier.

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W WDC 186-02 ice taxi business

(Inducks description: The Ice Taxis)

Inducks: W WDC 186-02
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09A-227
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, April 21 (Inducks submission: 1955-04-21)
Publication date: 1956, March (Inducks publication date: 1956-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 186, Vol. 16, No. 6
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD and HDL compete in driving ice taxis

Backstage: In the last panel, Donald tells his nephews to "Shut up!" Editor Alice Cobb forwarded Barks a letter from an irate mother complaining about the story, with a June 4, 1956 note: "We feel it is a fair criticism. We should all watch for this sort of thing, we think - and avoid it as much as possible". The mother's letter must have included a barb about the closing panel of the story, because the editor's note concluded, "In addition, we usually use 'Quiet!' instead of 'Shut up!'" Detailed information

Congruences:

W WDC 45-02 This Month's Thriller - Rival Boatmen

Correspondence:

1956 letter from a mother to the editor (no longer on file)
June 4, 1956 note from Alice Cobb to Carl Barks
± mid-June 1956 handwritten draft letter from Carl Barks to Alice Cobb
± mid-June 1956 typescript letter from Carl Barks to Alice Cobb (lost?)

Notes: Story involving clashes between Donald and the nephews.

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W WDC 187-01 wind businesses

(Inducks description: Searching for a Successor)

Inducks: W WDC 187-01
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09A-237
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, April 28 (Inducks submission: 1955-04-28)
Publication date: 1956, April (Inducks publication date: 1956-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 187, Vol. 16, No. 7
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Mattress Factory

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W WDC 188-01 olympic try-outs

(Inducks description: The Olympic Hopeful)

Inducks: W WDC 188-01
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09B-255
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, April 28 (Inducks submission: 1955-04-28)
Publication date: 1956, May (Inducks publication date: 1956-05)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 188, Vol. 16, No. 8
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: compete to be Duckburg's olympic athlete

Backstage: Barks caricatured himself on panels 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6 as Fulldrip Pulpbugle, a javelin hurler with hay fever. Detailed information

Congruences:

W OS 199-02 in "Sheriff of Bullet Valley": Barks caricature on panel 32.3.
W DG 26-01 in The Christmas Cha Cha: Barks caricature on panel 13.5.
W WDC 124-02 allergic to money: Reference to hay fever on panel 7.2.

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W WDC 189-01 gophers in back yard

(Inducks description: Gopher Goof-Ups)

Inducks: W WDC 189-01
Barrier: MBAC-179
CBL: 09B-265
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1955, June 30 (Inducks submission: 1955-06-30)
Publication date: 1956, June (Inducks publication date: 1956-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 189, Vol. 16, No. 9
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Tough nature laws rule at DD's backyard; Gopher Goof-Ups