A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

Inducks: W WDC 268-02
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-415
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, June 4 (Inducks submission: 1962-06-04)
Publication date: 1963, January (Inducks publication date: 1963-01)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 268, Vol. 23, No. 4
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: HDL want chemical kit and DD a truck for Christmas present; the road to a merry Christmas is paved with gold!

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W WDC 269-02 A Matter of Factory

(Inducks: A Matter of Factory)

Inducks: W WDC 269-02
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-425
Type: story
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: 1962, June ? (Inducks submission: 1962-06)
Publication date: 1963, February (Inducks publication date: 1963-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 269, Vol. 23, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: the motel business has Donald on the run!

Additional credits: In his 1969 list of work for Western, Barks wrote about this story: "A heavily rewritten story from the office."

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W WDC 270-01 The Jinxed Jalopy Race

The Jinxed Jalopy Race

(Inducks: The Jinxed Jalopy Race)

Inducks: W WDC 270-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-439
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, June 25 (Inducks submission: 1962-06-25)
Publication date: 1963, March (Inducks publication date: 1963-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 270, Vol. 23, No. 6
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

Backstage: During his visit to Holland in 1994, Barks was shown the at that moment most recent comic album "Beste Verhalen"-album No. 74. His reply, broadcasted on Dutch television, was: "Let's see. Something about it looks a little familiar. Yeah, I kinda remember this, something about litterbugging. That is an example of stories that just come up from various new laws we get in the States about throwing litter out on the highways, and how Uncle [Scrooge]... er, Donald gets in a jam, from somebody else's litter..." (grins)

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

W WDC 271-01 A Stone's Throw From Ghost Town

(Inducks: A Stone's Throw From Ghost Town)

Inducks: W WDC 271-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-449
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, August 11 (Inducks submission: 1962-08-11)
Publication date: 1963, April (Inducks publication date: 1963-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 271, Vol. 23, No. 7
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: fooled by dishonest real estate agent

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W WDC 272-01 Spare That Hair

(Inducks: Spare That Hair)

Inducks: W WDC 272-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-459
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, August 15 (Inducks submission: 1962-08-15)
Publication date: 1963, May (Inducks publication date: 1963-05)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 272, Vol. 23, No. 8
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Barber DD cuts circus gorilla's hair

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W WDC 273-01 A Duck's-eye View of Europe

(Inducks: A Duck's-eye View of Europe)

Inducks: W WDC 273-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-469
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, August 27 (Inducks submission: 1962-08-27)
Publication date: 1963, June (Inducks publication date: 1963-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 273, Vol. 23, No. 9
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

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W WDC 274-01 Gall of the Wild

(Inducks: Gall of the Wild)

Inducks: W WDC 274-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-479
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?,Carl Barks(stretched from 9 pages))
Script rewriting: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, October 10 (Inducks submission: 1962-10-10)
Publication date: 1963, July (Inducks publication date: 1963-07)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 274, Vol. 23, No. 10
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD teaches HDL how the primitive people got food

Additional credits: In his 1969 list of work for Western, Barks wrote about this story: "This was a nine page office story that I stretched."

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W WDC 275-01 Zero Hero

(Inducks: Zero Hero)

Inducks: W WDC 275-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-489
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, October 29 (Inducks submission: 1962-10-29)
Publication date: 1963, August (Inducks publication date: 1963-08)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 275, Vol. 23, No. 11
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: selling wrong cargos, tugging iceberg for US

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W WDC 276-00 lifeguard and girl ducks

(Inducks: Beach Boy)

Inducks: W WDC 276-00
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-435
Type: cover part, illustrating «Beach Boy»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, February 21 (Inducks submission: 1963-02-21)
Publication date: 1963, September (Inducks publication date: 1963-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 276, Vol. 23, No. 12
Pages: 0 1/3 (Inducks pages: 0 +)

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W WDC 276-02 Beach Boy

(Inducks: Beach Boy)

Inducks: W WDC 276-02
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-499
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1962, November 13 (Inducks submission: 1962-11-13)
Publication date: 1963, September (Inducks publication date: 1963-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 276, Vol. 23, No. 12
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: JW's hound spoils DD's lifeguard job

CBL-notes: Fish skeleton and undefinable plant added in panel 8.6.

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W WDC 277-00 animal parade

(Inducks: The Duckburg Pet Parade, MM and Zorro)

Inducks: W WDC 277-00
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-437
Type: cover part, illustrating «The Duckburg Pet Parade»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks,Paul Murry,photographs)
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, April 4 (Inducks submission: 1963-04-04)
Publication date: 1963, October (Inducks publication date: 1963-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 277, Vol. 24, No. 1
Pages: 0 1/3 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: elephant, camel, three mice, and kangaroo

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W WDC 277-01 The Duckburg Pet Parade

(Inducks: The Duckburg Pet Parade)

Inducks: W WDC 277-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10B-509
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, March 7 (Inducks submission: 1963-03-07)
Publication date: 1963, October (Inducks publication date: 1963-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 277, Vol. 24, No. 1
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD takes US's mean elephant to pet parade

CBL-notes: In panel 3.2, Donald's speed-lines are retouched with very thick lines.

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W WDC 278-00 dancing donald and daisy

(Inducks: Have Gun, Will Dance)

Inducks: W WDC 278-00
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10C-520
Type: cover part, illustrating «Have Gun, Will Dance»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, May 8 (Inducks submission: 1963-05-08)
Publication date: 1963, November (Inducks publication date: 1963-11)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 278, Vol. 24, No. 2
Pages: 0 1/3 (Inducks pages: 0 +)

CBL-notes: Blurry reproduction.

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W WDC 278-02 Have Gun, Will Dance

(Inducks: Have Gun, Will Dance)

Inducks: W WDC 278-02
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10C-523
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, April 11 (Inducks submission: 1963-04-11)
Publication date: 1963, November (Inducks publication date: 1963-11)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 278, Vol. 24, No. 2
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: HDL win a toy ray gun which makes people dance compulsively

Additional credits: Malcolm Willits' idea for a ten-pager about top-secret weapon plans became "Have Gun, Will Dance".

In an April 20, 1963 letter to Malcolm, Barks wrote: "I used the story idea you sent of the "lost" secret plans from the Pentagon. Sort of used the formula of the old-time Atom Bomb story from the Cheerio giveaway. You will find it very much like the 1940s style of writing, I think." (Malcolm Willits had sent Barks a copy of the Cheerio giveaway in November 1962.)

Correspondence:

April 20, 1963 letter from Carl Barks to Malcolm Willits

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W WDC 279-00 carnival booth

(Inducks: Once Upon A Carnival (a.o.))

Inducks: W WDC 279-00
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10C-520
Type: cover part, illustrating «Once Upon a Carnival»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks,Tony Strobl) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks,?)
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, July 1 (Inducks submission: 1963-07-01)
Publication date: 1963, December (Inducks publication date: 1963-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 279, Vol. 24, No. 3
Pages: 0 1/3 (Inducks pages: 1)

CBL-notes: Blurry reproduction.

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W WDC 279-01 Once Upon a Carnival

(Inducks: Once Upon A Carnival)

Inducks: W WDC 279-01
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10C-533
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, July 1 (Inducks submission: 1963-06-24)
Publication date: 1963, December (Inducks publication date: 1963-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 279, Vol. 24, No. 3
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD's dishonest bottle game in amusement park

Congruences:

QMU 1938-?11: shooting gallery with targets that cannot be knocked down.
W WDC 75-01 raffle turkey pet: shooting gallery with targets that cannot be knocked down.

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W WDC 280-00 donald sees scrooge in mirror

(Inducks: Double Masquerade)

Inducks: W WDC 280-00
Barrier: MBAC-186
CBL: 10C-520, 10C front cover
Type: cover part, illustrating «Double Masquerade»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, August 5 (Inducks submission: 1963-08-05)
Publication date: 1964, January (Inducks publication date: 1964-01)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 280, Vol. 24, No. 4
Pages: 0 1/4 (Inducks pages: 0 +)
Inducks description: DD looking at mirror, US in mirror

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W WDC 280-03 Double Masquerade

Man! For that kind of surfin' I'll double my donation to the Christmas fund!
-- visitor of surfing exhibition

(Inducks: Double Masquerade)

Inducks: W WDC 280-03
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-543
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, July 15 (Inducks submission: 1963-07-15)
Publication date: 1964, January (Inducks publication date: 1964-01)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 280, Vol. 24, No. 4
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD disguised as US and vice versa

Appearances: beach (1.1); Sailin' Surfers (1.3); Duckburg Christmas Fund (1.5); Captain Ramrod and her troop of Junior Chickadees (3.6); Chickadee Christmas Fund (3.7); Santa Claus's Doll Factory (4.5); banking district (5.1); Mr. Goldsox, who gave hundred dollars to the Chickadee Christmas Fund (5.5); Mr. Jinglepurse, who gave fifty to the Chickadee Christmas Fund (5.5); Uncle Scrooge's private ski mountain (6.3); Uncle Scrooge's ski chalet, at which Donald worked a chair lift when Scrooge entertained big business tycoons there (7.1, 7.3); Uncle Scrooge's old mine tunnel, in which bears live (9.4); Duckburg steam rooms (10.6).

Backstage: Barks: "In "Double Masquerade" I used the seashore of Duckburg -- not too out of place for Burbank, which is a half-hour drive from the ocean. There was quite a fad for surfing at that time. The Beach Boys songs were very popular on the radio. Please don't be disturbed by the antics of a fictional surfing club. They 'kidnapped' their reluctant members in order to put up a united front for a good surfing show. I used their strong-arm methods as a menace to Donald's safety, a mere story gimmick."

The Beach Boys came from Soutern California and started in 1961. Up to Barks' submission, most or all of The Beach Boys hits were about surfing: "Surfin'" (1962), "Surfin' Safari" (1962); and "Surfin' USA" (1963).

Congruences:

W OS 203-02 in "The Golden Christmas Tree": Gold Christmas tree. (In "Double Masquerade", panel 4.6, one Chickadee mentions that she wants a "solid GOLD Christmas tree".)

Questions: In Barks' story, the surfing club is called the "Sailin' Surfers" and he seems to use a surf 'dialect' of that time:

"Cowabunga! Dig those curlers, surfers!" /
"Real gassers for hot-dogging and shooting the tube!" (1.2)
"Where's your surfboard, Ducko, old surfer?" (1.4)
"We've got a spare one and some baggies in the woody!" (6.8)
"Donald Duck is shooting the tube with a one-foot stand!" (8.7)
"Now he's WALKIN' THE NOSE!" (8.8)
"And HANGING THREE with a one foot stand!" /
"That Duck is the MOST!" (9.1)

In panel 5.7, Donald-as-Scrooge answers the Sailin' Surfers that he was just "foolin'" (note the apostrophe). I guess that the real Scrooge would have pronounced "fooling". Maybe Barks makes a gag here by showing Donald unconsiciously using the surf dialect when seeing the Sailin' Surfers?

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W WDC 281-00 snowball with lighted fuse

(Inducks: Feud and Far Between)

Inducks: W WDC 281-00
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-520
Type: cover part, illustrating «Fued and Far Between»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, September 6 (Inducks submission: 1963-09-06)
Publication date: 1964, February (Inducks publication date: 1964-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 280, Vol. 24, No. 5
Pages: 0 1/3 (Inducks pages: 0 +)

CBL-notes: Blurry reproduction.

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W WDC 281-02 Fued and Far Between

(Inducks: Feud and Far Between)

Inducks: W WDC 281-02
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-553
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, August 26 (Inducks submission: 1963-08-26)
Publication date: 1964, February (Inducks publication date: 1964-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 280, Vol. 24, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Mysterious new neighbor may be Jones again

Landmark: Donald's early 1940s neighbour Mr. Jones appears for the first since «lost ten-dollar bill», not counting the unpublished «christmas caroling at peoples' doors».

Appearances: Papa [Jones] (6.4, on photo/painting); Maw [Jones] (10.3).

Backstage: A December 11,1960 letter to Larry Ivie shows that Barks had forgotten about this character: "You mentioned Mr. Jones. Glad to have him recalled to memory. I shall certainly use him again if a suitable plot suggests itself. Thanks, too, from Mr. Jones."

Research: The story's title is a pun on the idiomatic expression "Few and far between", the word "feud" having the same vowel sound as "few".

Cross-references: Donald says about his new neighbor: "I hope he's not like Jones who lived there long ago! Remember old Jones?" (1.2) The nephews comment: "You and neighbor Jones were in only one fight while he lived there! / That was from the day he moved in until he moved out!" (1.3) These are some of the story's cross-references to the 1940s stories with neighbor Jones [classic appearance]. Later in the story, Donald says: "If that's Jones, he'll be a sucker for my famous "fake injury" gag!" (5.7) This must be a cross-reference to a similar trick, in «borrowed putty» (8.4).

Correspondence:

December 11, 1960 letter from Carl Barks to Larry Ivie

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W WDC 282-00 boxing donald, beagle boys flee for madam mim

(Inducks: Bubbleweight Champ, The Amazing MIM Meets BB)

Inducks: W WDC 282-00
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-519
Type: cover in two parts, illustrating Barks story "Bubbleweight Champ" and a non-Barks story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, September 16 (Inducks submission: 1963-09-16)
Publication date: 1964, February (Inducks publication date: 1964-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 281, Vol. 24, No. 5
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)

Additional credits: Illustrated non-Barks story (possibly titled "The Amazing Mad Madam Mim Meets the Beagle Boys"), is a 8-page Mad Madam Mim story by an unknown writer, penciled by Tony Strobl, and inked by Steve Steere. (Inducks: W WDC 282-05)

Landmark: Appearance of Mad Madam Mim in Barks' work.

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W WDC 282-01 Bubbleweight Champ

(Inducks: Bubbleweight Champ)

Inducks: W WDC 282-01
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-563
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, September 9 (Inducks submission: 1963-09-06)
Publication date: 1964, February (Inducks publication date: 1964-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 281, Vol. 24, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Soda drinker DD in boxing match for JW

Details: The high wasted belt gag (panel 8.8) is basically the same as in Al Taliaferro's August 11, 1939 Donald Duck daily strip.

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W WDC 283-00 broken mast and exploding ship

(Inducks: Cap'n Blight's Mystery Ship (a.o.))

Inducks: W WDC 283-00
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-522
Type: cover part, illustrating «Cap'n Blight's Mystery Ship»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks,Paul Murry?)
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, October 31 (Inducks submission: 1963-10-31)
Publication date: 1964, April (Inducks publication date: 1964-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 283, Vol. 24, No. 7
Pages: 0 1/3 (Inducks pages: 1)

CBL-notes: Blurry reproduction.

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W WDC 283-01 Cap'n Blight's Mystery Ship

(Inducks: Captain Blight's Mystery Ship)

Inducks: W WDC 283-01
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10B-573
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1963, October 29 (Inducks submission: 1963-10-29)
Publication date: 1964, April (Inducks publication date: 1964-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 283, Vol. 24, No. 7
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Ducks are kidnapped to boat containing weapons

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W WDC 286-01 The Olympian Torch Bearer

(Inducks: The Olympian Torch Bearer)

Inducks: W WDC 286-01
Barrier: MBAC-184
CBL: 10C-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: 1963, December 3 (Inducks submission: 1963-12-03)
Publication date: 1964, July (Inducks publication date: 1964-07)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 286, Vol. 24, No. 8
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD torch bearer, lights all sorts of things with his torch

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W WDC 288-00 finger in dike

(Inducks: Hero Of The Dike)

Inducks: W WDC 288-00
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10A-004, 10C-521
Type: cover, illustrating «Hero of the Dike»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1964, March 18 (Inducks submission: 1964-03-18)
Publication date: 1964, September (Inducks publication date: 1964-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 288, Vol. 24, No. 12
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: finger in dike and fish pouring through sleeves

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W WDC 288-01 Hero of the Dike

(Inducks: Hero Of The Dike)

Inducks: W WDC 288-01
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-593
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1964, March 6 (Inducks submission: 1964-03-06)
Publication date: 1964, September (Inducks publication date: 1964-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 288, Vol. 24, No. 12
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)

Research: This story is built around an American story of a Dutch boy sticking his finger in a dike to prevent a village from being flooded, written by Mary Mapes-Dodge (1831-1905). The boy had no name in the story, but in the same book there is another Mapes-Dodge story about Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates. By error, the dike-boy is usually called Hans Brinker. There is a statue of Brinker in the small town of Spaarndam, near Haarlem in the Netherlands.

Questions: Where does the tradition of the sea dragon originate from?

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W WDC 289-00 arrow through pancake

(Inducks: Unfriendly Enemies)

Inducks: W WDC 289-00
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-604
Type: cover part, illustrating «Unfriendly Enemies»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1964, April 22 (Inducks submission: 1964-04-22)
Publication date: 1964, October (Inducks publication date: 1964-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 289, Vol. 25, No. 1
Pages: 0 1/2 (Inducks pages: 0 +)

Landmark: Appearance of Mr. Jones on a Barks cover.

CBL-notes: Blurry reproduction.

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W WDC 289-02 Unfriendly Enemies

(Inducks: Unfriendly Enemies)

Inducks: W WDC 289-02
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-605
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1964, April 6 (Inducks submission: 1964-04-06)
Publication date: 1964, October (Inducks publication date: 1964-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 289, Vol. 25, No. 1
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: HDL try to make DD and Jones's quarrel more "civilized"

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W WDC 290-00 football in soup

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 290-00
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-604
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1964, May 15 (Inducks submission: 1964-05-15)
Publication date: 1964, November (Inducks publication date: 1964-11)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 290, Vol. 25, No. 2
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Soccer Ball in Soup

CBL-notes: Blurry reproduction.

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W WDC 291-00 occiput mask

(Inducks:

Inducks: W WDC 291-00
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10B back cover; 10C-604 (blurry)
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1964, May 29 (Inducks submission: 1964-05-29)
Publication date: 1964, December (Inducks publication date: 1964-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 291, Vol. 25, No. 3
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: DD's double face

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W WDC 291-01 Delivery Dilemma

(Inducks: Delivery Dilemma)

Inducks: W WDC 291-01
Barrier: MBAC-187
CBL: 10C-615
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?,Carl Barks(rewrite))
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1964, May 25 (Inducks submission: 1964-05-25)
Publication date: 1964, December (Inducks publication date: 1964-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 291, Vol. 25, No. 3
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: BB fools US to deliver "wild hare eggs" without breaking anyone

Additional credits: Though Barks' records indicate that he did not originate this story, a full "shooting script" in his holograph survives, showing that he reworked the original idea so much as to make it his own.

Surviving material: Non-Barks shooting script.

Trivia: Scrooge thinks of Donald as his heir: "Never mind what YOU want! As my nearest of kin, it's your DUTY to carry on for good old McDuck unlimited!" (panel 2.3)

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