- Script
- Carl Fallberg
- Pencils
- Paul Murry
- Inks
- Paul Murry
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Paul Murry
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh, I wonder where Goofy is? I was hoping to get an early start on our fishing trip!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Skulk; Tiny; Indian chief; lone Indian brave
- Synopsis
- For fishing in Alaska with Mickey, Goofy packs for warmer climes because his great-uncle, Whopper O’Goof, told of a jungle-like area of Alaska with banana trees, crocodiles, and Indians. No-goods Skulk and Tiny, observe Goofy’s odd gear and Skulk recalls Whopper’s oft-told tales of jungles, natives and gold nuggets. They follow stealthily as Mickey and Goofy begin fishing. Goofy’s line snags the carved crocodile head of a totem pole, pulling it out of the river, but, before the villains could move in, a native chief forces the pair to carry the totem pole to an unknown destination.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Alaska; Alaska statehood; Alaskan geography; Alaskan wildlife; climate anomaly; fishing; Indians; Mt. McKinley; mystery; totem pole
Chapter 1 of 3.
As this story originates in 1959, the year Alaska achieved statehood, writer Fallberg, through Mickey, imparts a fair amount of information about "the 49th state":
MICKEY (to Goofy): "Alaska's our newest state, and our biggest! It's over twice the size of Texas, but only about one percent of it has been surveyed!"
Mickey also tells of Mt. McKinley ("...the highest peak in North America... 20.300 feet up!"), the Alaskan brown bear ("...some of them are over ten feet tall!") and the Chinook ("...the largest salmon, the Chinook, lives here! Some of them weigh a hundred pounds!").
- Script
- Bob Karp
- Pencils
- Al Taliaferro
- Inks
- Al Taliaferro
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Al Taliaferro
- Editing
- Frank Reilly (syndicate editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, I've got a whole quarter! Want to have a soda pop with me?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Huey (red cap); Louie (green cap); little girl
- Synopsis
- Huey slickly maneuvers Louie out of having a soda pop with a girl... and enjoys it himself.
- Reprints
- from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1957-06-18
- Keywords
- newspaper strip reprint; psychology; soda pop
Only two of the three Duck nephews are present. Nephews are designated by the color of their caps... Huey = Red, Dewey = Blue, and Louie = Green.