Four Color #291

(September 1950)

[Beach Trouble] (Table of Contents)

Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Murry

Inks:

Paul Murry

Letters:

Paul Murry

Content Information

Genre:

funny animals

Characters:

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis:

Donald wants to take a nap at the beach, but the nephews keep bothering him.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white.

"The Magic Hourglass" (Table of Contents)

Donald Duck / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

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; Uncle Scrooge; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis:

Scrooge gives his nephews an hourglass that he later discovers is the source of his great wealth. Carrying a billion dollars to buy the hourglass back, he follows the ducks to Africa, where they have gone to fill the hourglass with fresh sand from the oasis of No Issa--the only kind of sand that will keep perfect time in the hourglass and so make its owner richer by the hour.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) #[nn] (1978) [original layout=28 pages, abridged?; reprint layout=13 pages, abridged?]
• in The Walt Disney Best Comics Series (Abbeville Press, 1980 series) #[4] (October 1980)
• in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet, 1984 series) #[1985] - Fin gammel årgang ([oktober] 1985)
• in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986)
• in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #16 (October 1989)
• in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #16 (April 1995)
• in La Dynastie Donald Duck (Editions Glénat, 2010 series) #1 (décembre 2010)
• in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #341

Indexer Notes

Story submitted on March 16, 1950. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).

"The Spirit of '76" (Table of Contents)

Donald Duck / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Riley Thompson

Inks:

?

Colors:

? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

funny animals

Characters:

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis:

The nephews decide to put on a play about the American Revolution. Donald takes charge and decides that the family should live like their forefathers in order to get the feel for their parts.

[Fishing Pelican] (Table of Contents)

Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Murry

Inks:

Paul Murry

Letters:

Paul Murry

Content Information

Genre:

funny animals

Characters:

Donald Duck

Synopsis:

A pelican ruins Donald's fishing.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white.

[Late for School] (Table of Contents)

Huey, Dewey and Louie / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carl Buettner ?

Inks:

?

Colors:

? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

funny animals

Characters:

Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis:

The nephews make an excuse for being late to school.

Indexer Notes

Bottom half of the back cover.

[How To Make the Cover Move] (Table of Contents)

activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Letters:

?

Indexer Notes

Top half of back cover. Directions on how to make the front cover move.