| INDEX | ART | ANIMATION | [COMICS] | CHARACTERS | QUOTES | DIARY | PHOTOGRAPHS | BIBLIOGRAPHY | LINKS | SOURCES |
| One Shots | [Comics and Stories] | Our Gang | Giveaways | Donald Duck | Uncle Scrooge | Junior Woodchucks | Various | Europe |
| 031 - 051 | 052 - 075 | 076 - 099 | [100 - 117] | 124 - 147 | 148 - 171 | 172 - 195 | 196 - 219 | 220 - 243 | 244 - 267 | 268 - 291 | 292 - 315 | 316 - 633 | -X- |
| COMICS | Comics and Stories 100 - 117 (1949 - 1950) |
Additional credits: The school turns out to be closed because it is Saturday. This scene is similar to an alternate, unproduced conclusion for the animated cartoon Truant Officer Donald. In contrary to the cartoon, Barks allowed Donald to triumph over the nephews. Truant officer Donald opens the schoolhouse and makes the boys write "Crime does not pay" one hundred times on the blackboard. About this, Tom Andrae wrote in the Carl Barks Library: "In books which children could read and reread, open rebellion was not as permissible as in a cartoon that would flash by quickly on the screen."
Congruences:
Donald is deliberately swimming away from us!
-- Mrs. Cobblechin
Appearances: Mrs. Gobblechin (7.1); Needlework Club (7.3); Mrs. Chatterbeak (9.8); Petit Point Embroidery Club (9.8); and the "Tuesday Tatting Circle" (9.8).
Congruences:
All things come to him who sits and waits! That's my slogan!
-- Gladstone Gander
Additional credits: In his 1969 list of work for Western, Barks wrote about this story: "My notation on voucher says I paid Dana Coty $25.00 for the idea."
Congruences:
You're awful runty, shrimp! How long d'yuh tink yuh can take my punches?
-- boxer champ
Appearances: Jeebs (Scrooge's secretary, 3.5); Squeezem, Fleecem, Skinem, and Skip (fake law firm, 3.7); Marmaduke Mallard (fake late uncle, 3.8); painter working on "Man Of Ze Sub-Order" (4.6); Lassie O'Doon (Scrooge yaught, 9.1).
Research: In panel 1.4, a nephew sings "Yo ho! And a bottle of rhubarb juice!". This is a reference to an existant old English sailor song, ""Yo ho, and a bottle of rum".
The same idea Barks developed for Donald to use in raising Scrooge's ship in this issue's story was devised by Danish engineer Karl Krøyer in 1964. His attempt to patent the process proved unsuccessful because the Patent Office ruled a "preliminary description" of the invention had already been published. Detailed information
Congruences:
Gkkkkqzffjgmmmssfxxxwllvkkkski! Gckfpt!
-- Siberian Grufflecrow
Appearances: Thrushwhistle Glen (park, panel 1.4); Siberian Crufflecrow (bird, panel 5.4); Red Ant Hollow (location of picnic, panel 8.7); Nature Boys (panel 9.1).
Research: The Nature Boys club, whom Donald adressed in this story, is no doubt a jab by Barks at the "nature boy" movement at the time. The Nature Boys were that period's version of the beatniks and hippies: long haired and bearded inviduals who eschewed the modern world and preferred instead to live "closer to nature."
Questions: In panel 7.7, a "big bomb" is mentioned. The bold lettering of "big" seems to look different from the rest of the lettering. Does it sound likely that there has originally been another word, which was replaced by the editors? (Something like "atom bomb", for example?)
Stay in dis closet! Your big bright eyes make me noivous!
-- Black Mask Burglar
Go down to the drugstore and get me a bottle of dyspepsia medicine! My stomach is very acid this morning!
-- Donald Duck
Additional credits: In his 1969 list of work for Western, Barks wrote about this story: "My notes say I paid Dana Coty $25 for the idea."
Backstage: In 1983 notes for the "The Carl Barks Library", Barks said about this story: "Along in those years (1949) the newsstands were piled high with multitudes of superhero comics. I was afraid the readers of the duck comics might feel Donald and his nephews were out of touch with modern 'events', so I did this story in which Donald for a time becomes a superhero."
Congruences:
Correspondence:
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Our fortune is made! We've struck a soda pop well!
-- nephews
Research: Desert Hot Springs, in panel 9.5, is a community of hot mineral water spas which was a popular hideaway for strung-out movie stars and other Hollywood types in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's.
About this location, Joseph Cowles wrote in a August 2, 2000 e-mail:
"The Barkses lived on the opposite side of the [San Jacinto mountains], in Hemet during the times I visited them, and in the town of San Jacinto after that. Upon his retirement they moved around quite a bit, trying out beach life in Laguna, before working their way up the coast to the rather high-ticket community of Goleta. But in the years that they lived out this way, Barks developed an affection for the desert, creating a number of stories which used this environment as a venue.
One of these desert-scene stories appeared in WDC&S for October 1949, which means that Barks probably created it that spring (he worked about six months in advance of publication), possibly after spending a long weekend soaking up the sun and basking in our fresh natural mineral waters (which, however, do not smell of sulphur). Attached is a panel I gleaned from the "Carl Barks Library", and colorized. While it doesn't depict a particular spa that is presently standing, it certainly shows the architecture hereabouts, especially as it might have been a half century ago, with the thick adobe-style stuccoed walls and red Spanish tiles."
Tastes like it was enriched with chocolate bars and bananas! I'll just
throw away the Goldilocks script and eat all the porridge!
-- Donald Duck
Backstage: In 1983 notes for "The Carl Barks Library", Barks wrote: "Kids and their dreams of summer camp are part of the pattern of growing up. Very few kids ever get to summer camp, but all can dream of the woodsy adventures they would have in such a place. I felt the ducks could find plenty to do at far-out Camp Whaha-Go-Gaga. Bears, of course, are necessary 'heavies' in most woodsy adventures".
Correspondence:
Changes: Barks drew an art-only cover for WDC 110, but it was rejected by his editor. Detailed information
Status: The art is lost, but a very small print can be seen of it as part of an advertisement distributed in the autumn of 1949, soliciting Christmas gift subscriptions to the magazine.
Congruences:
A truck! Ha, ha! That was a comet! The highway patrol uses 'em to
chase speeders!
-- nephew
Backstage: In 1983 notes for "The Carl Barks Library", Barks wrote: "The tale of Rip Van Winkle always intrigued me. I tried many times to use the long sleep gimmick in a duck situation before I came up with this plot arrangement. Even so, the powers of suggestion had to be stretched to incredible lenghts."
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Questions: In panel 1.1, the skating nephews sing "In the good old wintertime!", which might be a (reference to an) existing song. Do you know the the title and the origin of the song?
Those tracks show that the spies lurked outside your window sixty-three
minutes ago!
-- Noble X. Ample of the Secret Service
Landmark:
With this story, the apostrophe that had appeared after "Unca" whenever the
nephews spoke to or about Donald was dropped. In 1983 notes for
"The Carl Barks Library", Barks wrote: "I dropped the apostrophe because I
was beginning to feel it was redundant. The word Unca had become part of the
language." Western Publishing's editors observed this, or at least there must
have been some communication on the subject, because non-Barks duck stories
drawn at the same time also dropped the apostrophe.
Interestingly, Floyd Gottfredson never used
anything but "Unca" - without the apostrophe - from the early
1930s when he had Mickey Mouse's nephews use the form.
Barks didn't use the apostrophe in all the preceding stories. From W WDC 31-05 victory garden up to W WDC 38-02 in "Good Neighbors", no apostrophe was used. W WDC 39-01 in Salesman Donald is the first WDC-story in which the apostrophe appears. From W WDC 41-01 The Duck in the Iron Pants up to W WDC 46-02 in "Camera Crazy", the apostrophe again is dropped. In W WDC 47-02 falcon farragut, the apostrophe reappears.
Appearances: Rockies (mentioned by Donald, 1.5); Noble X. Ample of the Secret Service (panel 6.7); village of Codfish Cove (9.7).
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| 031 - 051 | 052 - 075 | 076 - 099 | [100 - 117] | 124 - 147 | 148 - 171 | 172 - 195 | 196 - 219 | 220 - 243 | 244 - 267 | 268 - 291 | 292 - 315 | 316 - 633 | -X- |
| One Shots | [Comics and Stories] | Our Gang | Giveaways | Donald Duck | Uncle Scrooge | Junior Woodchucks | Various | Europe |
| INDEX | ART | ANIMATION | [COMICS] | CHARACTERS | QUOTES | DIARY | PHOTOGRAPHS | BIBLIOGRAPHY | LINKS | SOURCES |
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