(August 1947)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Magazine
- Editing:
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (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 "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK IN THE GHOST OF THE GROTTO, No. 159." Code number is D.D.O.S. #159-478. 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). Donald Duck #2?
The Ghost of The Grotto
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Carl Buettner
- Inks:
- Carl Buettner
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals; adventure
- Characters:
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in The Best of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (Gold Key, 1966 series) #1 ([November] 1966) [front cover]
- in The Best of Walt Disney Comics (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96173 (1974)
Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto
Donald Duck / comic story / 26 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; Louie
- Synopsis:
- While the ducks are running a kelp-gathering boat in the West Indies, they are told of the mystery of an armored man who appears every fifty years to kidnap a small boy. This time, the armored man kidnaps Dewey, and the ducks fight to free him from the armored man's stronghold in a grotto in a coral reef, beneath a rotten old galleon guarded by an enormous octopus.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in The Best of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (Gold Key, 1966 series) #1 ([November] 1966)
- in The Best of Walt Disney Comics (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96173 (1974)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #9 (November 1988)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #7 (July 1994)
Indexer Notes
Story title is slightly different than cover title. Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white. Art submitted on April 15, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Adventure Down Under
Donald Duck / comic story / 25 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 is hypnotized into believing he is a kangaroo and buys airplane tickets to Australia for himself and the nephews. In Australia the ducks try to trap Mournful Mary, the "queen of the kangaroos," and this leads to Donald's falling into the hands of savage aborigines.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Art submitted on April 4, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto
Donald Duck -
2.
Adventure Down Under
Donald Duck
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- Merlin Haas
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- 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
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