Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #41 [Red Goose]

Race to the South Seas! (Table of Contents: 1)

Donald Duck / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

Carl Barks

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; Uncle Scrooge; Sylvester Shyster; Mayor

Synopsis

Uncle Scrooge, through his lawyer, give both Gladstone and Donald a sailing ship, and just a few minutes later they learn that Scrooge has been lost in a storm in the South Seas. Both Donald and Gladstone set sail for the islands where Scrooge was last seen, and along the way, Gladstone has nothing but good luck and Donald has nothing but bad.

Reprints

• in Topolino (Mondadori, 1949 series) #16 (Luglio 1950) [part 1], #17 (Luglio 1950) [part 2]
• in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #8 ([1983])
• in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1984] - Jubileumsboken (1984)
which is reprinted
• in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #1/1995 (3. januar 1995) [side 1-8], #2/1995 (10. januar 1995) [side 9-15], #3/1995 (17. januar 1995) [page 16-22]
• in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #7 ([september] 2007) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
• in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #10/2014 (uke 10 mars 2014) [del 1], #11/2014 (uke 11 mars 2014) [del 2], #12/2014 (uke 12 mars 2014) [del 3]
• in Klassisk Donald Duck (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2016 series) #19 - Donald Duck og sjøormen ([juli] 2019), #22 - Villhundenes dronning ([januar] 2020)
• in Die tollkühnen Abenteuer der Ducks auf hoher See (Mareverlag, 2006 series) (2006)
• in Walt Disney Treasures - Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation (Gemstone, 2006 series) (2006)
• in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #37 (2008)
• in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[7] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck - Lost in the Andes (2011)

Indexer Notes

Art submitted on Dec. 15, 1948. A redrawn version of this story, with art by Daan Jippes appears in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 May 1990; Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #26 July 1992; Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #14. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

In the Fantagraphics "Lost in the Andes" book Francesco Stajano and Leonardo Gori note that the reproduction materials for this story were missing for decades. It wasn't until 2011 that this story was finally reprinted using original artwork.