(May 1946)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Magazine
- Editing:
- Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK in the Terror of the River, No. 108." No code number. Copyright 1946 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet, 1948 series) #34/1975 (19. august 1975) which is reprinted
- in Klassiske Bobler (1991)
The Terror of the River!!
Donald Duck / comic story / 28 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Barks
- Pencils:
- Carl Barks
- Inks:
- Carl Barks
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Carl Barks
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals; adventure
- Characters:
- Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
- Synopsis:
- Donald's sneezes at an auction are mistaken for bids on a houseboat and soon he and the nephews are sailing down the Ohio River. There they encounter a huge serpent, which they later learn is an elaborate submarine whose captain gets his pleasure from scaring people.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #2 (February 1988)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #4 (April 1994)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #26 (June 1994)
- in Walt Disney's Vacation Parade (Gemstone, 2004 series) #3 (June 2006)
- in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #2 (February 1988)
Indexer Notes
Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white. Art submitted on January 25, 1946. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
"The Firebug"
Donald Duck / comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Barks
- Pencils:
- Carl Barks; Carl Buettner (last two panels only)
- Inks:
- Carl Barks; Carl Buettner (last two panels only)
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Carl Barks; ? (last two panels)
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
- Synopsis:
- Donald falls on his head when getting up one morning and turns into a pyromaniac, setting harmless fires but also getting the blame for big fires set by another firebug.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald (Gladstone, 1988 series) #3 (July 1988)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #4 (April 1994)
- in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gemstone, 2003 series) #644
Indexer Notes
Art submitted on July 19, 1945. "Pages have nine to eleven panels each; most have ten panels." "The last two panels of this story are by an artist other than Barks*. In them Donald learns that his adventures as a firebug have been only a bad dream. In Barks' original version, Donald went to jail for accidentally burning down a courthouse." Notes and Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). *- Alberto Becattini identifies the artist of the last two panels as Carl Buettner (May 14, 2007).
"Seals Are So Smart"
Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Barks
- Pencils:
- Carl Barks
- Inks:
- Carl Barks
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Carl Barks
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
- Synopsis:
- The nephews play ball at the beach with a baby seal, and this sets Donald to dreaming of how much money he could make with a trained seal act.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #2 (February 1988)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #4 (April 1994)
- in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #2 (February 1988)
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Art submitted on January 25, 1946. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Table of Contents
-
1.
The Terror of the River!!
Donald Duck -
2.
"The Firebug"
Donald Duck -
3.
"Seals Are So Smart"
Donald Duck
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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