Four Color
#159 - Donald Duck in The Ghost of the Grotto
(August 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1947-07-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
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. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 372. 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
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Reprints
-
in Walt Disney's One Shot (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1951 ? series) #4 -
in Walt Disney the Best of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (Western, 1966 series) #1 (November 1966) [front cover] - in The Best of Walt Disney Comics (Western, 1974 series) #96173 (1974)
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in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #10 (Abril 2005) -
in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #4 ([august] 2006)
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- Keywords
- armor; knights; swords; treasure chests
Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto
Donald Duck / comic story / 26 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- 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
- in Walt Disney the Best of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (Western, 1966 series) #1 (November 1966)
- in The Best of Walt Disney Comics (Western, 1974 series) #96173 (1974)
-
in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #5 ([1983]) - in Donald Duck and His Nephews Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1983 series) (1983) [reformatted]
- 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 Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1993] - Eventyrlig snadder (1993) which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #4 ([august] 2006)
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #29/2012 ([20. juli] 2012)
- in Klassisk Donald Duck (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2016 series) #16 - Donald Duck på Grønland ([januar] 2019)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #7 (July 1994)
- in $. O. $. Titanic (Editora Abril, 1998 series) #1 (junho de 1998)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #10 (Abril 2005)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[5] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain ([October] 2013)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #[1] - Ghost of the Grotto (2014)
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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
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; 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
- in Walt Disney's One Shot (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1951 ? series) #7 ([1949])
-
in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #506 (4 février 1962) -
in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #9 - Als kangoeroe (1978) which is reprinted - in Paperino d'oro (Mondadori, 1979 series) #12 (Maggio 1980)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #5 ([1983])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1986] - Stjerneskudd ([september] 1986) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #4/1996 ([juni] 1996)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #4 ([august] 2006)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #11 (February 1989)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #7 (July 1994)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #10 (Abril 2005)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[5] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain ([October] 2013)
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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).
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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The Ghost of the Grotto
Donald Duck -
1.
Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto
Donald Duck -
2.
Adventure "Down Under"
Donald Duck
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- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Dave Porta
- Tony R. Rose
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