A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

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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WDC 281 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 280, Vol. 24, No. 5

Inducks: WDC 281
Barrier: MBAC-187
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1964, February
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 280-00 donald sees scrooge in mirror
W WDC 280-03 Double Masquerade

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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: ... (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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WDC 282 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 281, Vol. 24, No. 5

Inducks: WDC 282
Barrier: MBAC-187
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1964, February
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 282-00 boxing donald, beagle boys flee for madam mim
W WDC 282-01 Bubbleweight Champ

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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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WDC 283 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 283, Vol. 24, No. 7

Inducks: WDC 283
Barrier: MBAC-187
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1964, April
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 283-00 broken mast and exploding ship
W WDC 283-01 Cap'n Blight's Mystery Ship

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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: ... (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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WDC 286 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 286, Vol. 24, No. 8

Inducks: WDC 286
Barrier: MBAC-184
Publisher: ...
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1964, July
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 286-01 The Olympian Torch Bearer

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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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WDC 288 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 288, Vol. 24, No. 12

Inducks: WDC 288
Barrier: MBAC-187
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1964, September
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price: Still only 12c

New material:

W WDC 288-00 finger in dike
W WDC 288-01 Hero of the Dike

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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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WDC 289 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 289, Vol. 25, No. 1

Inducks: WDC 289
Barrier: MBAC-187
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1964, October
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 289-00 arrow through pancake
W WDC 289-02 Unfriendly Enemies

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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: ... (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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WDC 290 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 290, Vol. 25, No. 2

Inducks: WDC 290
Barrier: MBAC-187
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1964, November
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 290-00 football in soup

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W WDC 290-00 football in soup

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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WDC 291 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 291, Vol. 25, No. 3

Inducks: WDC 291
Barrier: MBAC-187
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1964, December
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 291-01 Delivery Dilemma

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W WDC 291-00 occiput mask

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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