(May 1947)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Editing:
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
- Paper Stock:
- Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY"S DONALD DUCK IN VOLCANO VALLEY, No. 147." Code number is D.D.O.S. #147-475. Copyright 1947 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). This issue is apparently Donald Duck #1, if you count backwards from #26, which was the number of the first issue of the regular Donald Duck Dell series.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #278 (March 1990) [original title: [If the Hat Fits]
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[If the Hat Fits]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Barks
- Pencils:
- Carl Barks
- Inks:
- Carl Barks
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Carl Barks
Content Information
- Genre:
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters:
- Donald Duck
- Synopsis:
- Donald tries on many hats and buys a huge sombrero.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #278 (March 1990) [reprint title: Hat's Right]
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)
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Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Art submitted December 30, 1946. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
"Volcano Valley"
Donald Duck / comic story / 30 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Barks
- Pencils:
- Carl Barks
- Inks:
- Carl Barks
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Carl Barks
Content Information
- Genre:
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters:
- Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
- Synopsis:
- Donald accidentally receives a full-size World War II bomber instead of the model plane he ordered, and sells it to the South American country of Volcanovia. The ducks are flown to Volcanovia, where they learn that they can leave the country only by becoming national heroes. Donald's efforts to become a national hero lead to his being proclaimed a national menace instead.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
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in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet, 1948 series) #21/1963 (22. mai 1963) [page 1-7], #22/1963 (29. mai 1963) [page 8-14], #23/1963 (5. juni 1963) [page 15-21], #24/1963 (12. juni 1963) [page 22-30] which are reprinted - in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #256 (August 1987)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #5 (May 1994) which is reprinted
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in Indexer Notes
Art submitted on December 9, 1946. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Donald Duck and Radio Trouble
Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Tom McKimson
- Inks:
- Tom McKimson
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Tom McKimson
Content Information
- Genre:
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters:
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck
- Synopsis:
- Donald sends the nephews to buy six eggs, but the advertisement for the eggs lands upside-down and the kids buy him six expensive radios from the Friendly Credit Store instead.
- Reprints:
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet, 1948 series) #31/1958 (26. november 1958) [retouched art] which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Donald Duck's Big Blow-out
Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Hannah
- Inks:
- Jack Hannah
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters:
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Neighbor Jones
- Synopsis:
- Donald and Neighbor Jones both build barbecues and get in a fight when Jones buys up all the marshmallows in town for a party.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
Donald Duck in Volcano Valley
Donald Duck -
1.
[If the Hat Fits]
Donald Duck -
2.
"Volcano Valley"
Donald Duck -
3.
Donald Duck and Radio Trouble
Donald Duck -
4.
Donald Duck's Big Blow-out
Donald Duck
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- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
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