March of Comics
#20
[Child Life Shoes variant]
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- Pages:
- 24
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- ?
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- 1952-1959 Oblong Paperback; Rest Standard Golden Age U.S, Silver Age U.S., & Modern Age U.S.; Full Color; Newsprint Cover & Interior; Earlier Issues Slick Cover Stock; Saddle-Stitched or Glued Spine; Advertiser Slick Cover Wrap early Issues
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #20. There exist further variants.
- March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #20 [Poll Parrot Shoes variant]
- March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #20 [Boys' and Girls' variant]
- March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #20 [Book's Shoes variant]
- March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #20 [Schiff Shoe Store variant]
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![Cover Thumbnail for March of Comics (1946 series) #20 [Boys' and Girls' variant]](http://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/885/w100/885536.jpg?-7606748409038338320)
![Cover Thumbnail for March of Comics (1946 series) #20 [Book's Shoes variant]](http://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/885/w100/885535.jpg?3500195444838559744)
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Darkest Africa
Donald Duck / comic story / 22 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Barks
- Pencils:
- Carl Barks
- Inks:
- Carl Barks
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Carl Barks
- Job Number:
- MOC 20-01
Content Information
- Genre:
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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: show reprint note before migration
-
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 Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #14 (February 1995) [reinked]
-
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).
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Alan Hutchinson
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- I.N.D.U.C.K.S Project and Alberto Becattini
- Gene Reed
- Lou Mougin
- Jim Walls
- Gary L. Watson
- Jerry Hillegas
- Mark Gordon
- Mike Nielsen
- Karl Wilcox
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