Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #20 [Child Life Shoes]

Darkest Africa (Table of Contents: 1)

Donald Duck / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Carl Barks

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Sir Gnatbugg-Mothley; Professor McFiendy

Synopsis

Donald, an aggressive butterfly collector, is hired by Sir Gnattbugg-Mothley to go to Africa and bring back an Almostus Extinctus, rarest of butterflies. In Africa, the ducks are sabotaged by Professor Angus McFiendly, who is also after the Almostus Extinctus, and Donald is forced to give him the butterfly when the nephews are captured by cannibals hired by McFiendly.

Reprints

• in Dono di Topolino ai suoi amici (Mondadori, 1950 series) ([1950])
• in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #331 (28 septembre 1958)
• in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #7 ([1984])
• in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)
• in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #29 (October 1992) [reinked]
• in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #23/1994 (7. juni 1994) [part 1], #24/1994 (14. juni 1994) [part 2]
which are reprinted
• in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #5 ([desember] 2006) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
• in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #25/1994 (21. juni 1994) [part 3]
• in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #14 (February 1995) [reinked]
• in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #37 (2008)
• in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[6] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Old Castle's Secret (2013)

Indexer Notes

Art submitted on September 25, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).