Four Color
#300 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Big-Top Bedlam
(November 1950)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1950
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Part of "Animated Cover" series.
Big-Top Bedlam
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Dewey Duck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald hanging from a tightrope.
- Reprints
-
in Four Color (Wilson Publishing, 1947 series) #300 (December 1950) -
in Walt Disney's Donald Duck (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1954 series) #249 (1977) -
in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #12 (Junho 2005) -
in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #8 ([desember] 2007) -
in La Dynastie Donald Duck (Glénat, 2010 series) #1 (décembre 2010)
-
- Keywords
- circuses; clowns; tightropes
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Firecracker Light]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, boy! This is th' most exciting book I've read in a long time!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald uses a firecracker as a candle.
- Reprints
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #1/1959 (1. januar 1959) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
Big-Top Bedlam
Donald Duck / comic story / 28 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Job Number
- D.D.O.S #300-5011
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, boy! The circus is coming to town!
- Feature Logo
Donald Duck [Crooked Block Letters Upper-Lower Case]- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Daisy Duck; Dewey Duck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald loses Daisy's heirloom brooch on the way to hock it for enough money to buy circus tickets for himself and the nephews. The brooch turns up mysteriously in the hands of a quick-change artist at the circus, and Donald gets a job as a clown so that he can try to get the brooch back.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1954 series) #136 [five pages cut]
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #10/1959 (4. mars 1959) [pages 1-10] which is reprinted
- in Disney's Godbiter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1980 series) #31 (1981) which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #8 ([desember] 2007) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #15/2017 ([uke 15 april] 2017) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1995] - Klar, ferdig, gå! (1995) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[30] - 1959 del 2 ([november] 2004)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #11/1959 (11. mars 1959) [pages 11-19] which is reprinted
- in Disney's Godbiter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1980 series) #31 (1981) which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #8 ([desember] 2007) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #15/2017 ([uke 15 april] 2017) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1995] - Klar, ferdig, gå! (1995) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[30] - 1959 del 2 ([november] 2004)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #12/1959 (18. mars 1959) [pages 20-28] which is reprinted
- in Disney's Godbiter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1980 series) #31 (1981) which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #8 ([desember] 2007) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #15/2017 ([uke 15 april] 2017) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1995] - Klar, ferdig, gå! (1995) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[30] - 1959 del 2 ([november] 2004)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1954 series) #249 (1977)
-
in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #16 - Als circusclown (1980) -
in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #9 ([1984]) -
in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986) - in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #261 (January 1988)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #16 (April 1995)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #12 (Junho 2005)
- in La Dynastie Donald Duck (Glénat, 2010 series) #1 (décembre 2010)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[9] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck - The Pixilated Parrot (June 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Story submitted on April 20, 1950. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[The Firebugs]
Donald Duck / comic story / 20 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Aah... There's nothing like th' home and hearth on a cold winter day!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Black Pete; Dewey Duck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Louie Duck; Goofy; Scrooge McDuck
- Synopsis
- Donald's nephews get into mischief with a movie projector by projecting images of a fire on various neighboring houses and causing firefighters Donald and Goofy continuous confusion when they attend the areas in their fire engine in an attempt to put out the fires.
- Reprints
- in Topolino (Mondadori, 1949 series) #27 (Maggio 1951) [part 1], #28 (Giugno 1951) [part 2]
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #20/1959 (13. mai 1959) [page 1-3] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[31] - 1959 del 3 ([desember] 2004)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #21/1959 (20. mai 1959) [pages 4-13] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[31] - 1959 del 3 ([desember] 2004)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #22/1959 (27. mai 1959) [pages 14-20] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[31] - 1959 del 3 ([desember] 2004)
- in Walt Disney's Giant Comics (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1951 series) #293 (1963)
- in Donald Duck Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #3 (March 1987)
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[Good Deed Nephews]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- (Sigh) I'm tired tonight, boys, an' I'll appreciate your being good!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Dewey Duck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- The nephews drive Donald crazy with their good deeds.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Story title and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Big-Top Bedlam
Donald Duck -
1.
[Firecracker Light]
Donald Duck -
2.
Big-Top Bedlam
Donald Duck -
3.
[The Firebugs]
Donald Duck -
4.
[Good Deed Nephews]
Donald Duck -
5.
How to make the front cover move
This issue was modified by, among others
- Robert Copeman
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Thomas Johnson
- Darrel McCann
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Joey Sayer
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