The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #27 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Duck Luck" by Carl Barks
(November 2022)

Fantagraphics, 2011 Series
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Volume
27
Price
35.00
Pages
216
On-sale Date
2022-11-29
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Brand
Fantagraphics [Legacy Torch]
ISBN
978-1-68396-653-1 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
9781683966531 53500
Editing
Mike Catron (credited as J. Michael Catron) (senior editor)

Issue Notes

Duck Luck (Table of Contents)

Donald Duck / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; Grandma Duck; Daisy Duck
Synopsis
Gladstone Gander presents Grandma Duck with a golden egg, while Daisy Duck looks on. Donald has just received a swift and painful kick in the rump.
Keywords
golden egg; repurposed art; swift kick

Indexer Notes

This cover image is a composite of Barks illustrations from the stories "Too Much Help" page 2, panel 6 and "Terrible Tourist" page 10, panel 7.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 3 pages (report information)


Indexer Notes

Orange-toned blank pages. Inside front cover and the first two interior pages.

Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
Inks
Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Donald Duck

Indexer Notes

A Donald Duck head inside a circle, added to the middle of the Donald Duck logo.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mike Catron ?
Pencils
Carl Barks
Inks
Carl Barks
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Huey; Dewey; Louie
Keywords
repurposed art

Indexer Notes

Publisher information, editorial credits, indicia, and a single illustration of Huey, Dewey, and Louie repurposed from the story "Sitting High" - page 10, panel 3.

Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Duck Luck" by Carl Barks (Table of Contents: 4)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
Inks
Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Donald Duck

Indexer Notes

A Donald Duck head inside a circle, added to the middle of the Donald Duck logo. Lists "Fantagraphics Books Seattle" as publisher.

Contents (Table of Contents: 5)

table of contents / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Daan Jippes
Inks
Daan Jippes
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Magica De Spell
Keywords
repurposed art

Indexer Notes

Includes a repurposed illustration of Magica De Spell by Daan Jippes from the story "Bottled Battlers" - page 3, panel 3.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)


Indexer Notes

Light green-toned blank page.

Duck Luck (Table of Contents: 7)

Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Susan Daigle-Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Yum, yum! That chop suey and chow yuk was the yukkiest!
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in plain upper/lowercase]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander; beat cop; Chinese fish merchant; motorist stuck in mud; patrol car cop; supermarket clerk
Synopsis
Donald tries to debunk the predictions of a Chinese fortune cookie.
Reprints
Keywords
antique car; Dismal Swamp; fortune cookie; horseshoe; luck; model plane; skepticism

Indexer Notes

Script credit reads: "Uncredited script rewritten by Carl Barks".

Story references the Dismal Swamp, which would figure prominently in Barks' later "The Swamp of No Return" in Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 Series) #57 (May 1965).

Sitting High (Table of Contents: 8)

Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Among the many winter visitors in glamorous Palm Sands are Donald Duck and his nephews!
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in cursive]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Brigitte Van Doran; Gasmore Gravytrain; Jane Girlsfield; Snarlin Grando; Tallin De Saddle; trash-burning woman; local news photographer; Tripe Magazine photographer; celebrity-obsessed stampeding crowds
Synopsis
Donald tries various ways to achieve fame.
Reprints
Keywords
actors; actresses; camel-riding; celebrities; fame-is-fleeting; flagpole-sitting; golf; politicians; series of mishaps; you-can’t-win

Indexer Notes

Celebrity parody names abound: "Snarlin Grando" = method actor Marlin Brando. "Jayne Girlsfield" = full and shapely actress Jayne Mansfield (with hair tresses drawn by Barks to mitigate or deemphasize her upper figure, perhaps in consideration of the Dell Comics Code). "Prince Raindeer and Princess Lace" = Monaco monarchs Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. "Brigitte Van Doren" = an amalgam of glamorous actress Brigitte Bardot and busty actress Mamie Van Doren.

Made up joke and pun names are liberally mixed in with the celebrity parody names, giving pause to modern readers less familiar with the celebrity culture of the late-1950s and early-1960s: "Tallin De Saddle", "Cuddles Marrymore", "Rocky Stonejaw", and a famous politician named "Gasmore Gravytrain".

Among the media focused on Donald on pages 3 and 4 is "Bathé News", a sendup of Pathé News, once a supplier of newsreels to movie theatres.

The Madcap Mariner (Table of Contents: 9)

Donald Duck / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ducks are pawns and cod are kings in this briny tale of ice and fish in the roaring northern seas!
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in cursive]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Gyro Gearloose; crew of the Daffy-O; rival crews of cod fishing boats; codfish contest judge; reporters
Synopsis
Aboard the good schooner Daffy-O, unseaworthy Donald, with the boys and a "lubber crew", must win the Fishermen's Gold Cup for Uncle Scrooge at the annual cod fishing competition... or else. While disadvantaged in almost every way, Scrooge has provided Donald with a "secret device" to compensate - the nature of which is unknown to Donald and his crew.
Reprints
Keywords
cod; contest; fishing; ineptness; schooner; sea or island setting; secret weapon

Indexer Notes

Originally submitted by Barks as a ten-page story, the equivalent of one full page has been edited out of Barks' submission for the original printed version and all subsequent reprints. Every printing of this story has been nine pages.

Small Fryers (Table of Contents: 10)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - My little nieces, April, May, and June, came to visit me the other day!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; April; May; June
Synopsis
Daisy's nieces come to visit, and mess up her kitchen.
Reprints
Keywords
diary; kitchen; mess; nieces

Indexer Notes

While the feature logo on this story reads "Daisy Duck", it is actually an entry in the "Daisy Duck's Diary" series.

Terrible Tourist (Table of Contents: 11)

Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
There are two kinds of tourists roaming foreign lands - the proper kind and -
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in cursive]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; squad of Hondorican police; first senorita; second senorita; second senorita's papa; Conchita; the Duckburgian Consul to Hondorica
Synopsis
Donald obsessively attempts to gather Latin American souvenirs and is most obsessed with getting a rose from a balcony-serenaded senorita as the ultimate prize.
Keywords
balcony; comic obsession; dogged persistence; escalating events; guitar; Hondorica; Latin America; reused story; senorita; serenade; souvenirs; tourists

Indexer Notes

Donald and the boys visit Hondorica, the locale of a previous adventure in Barks' earlier "Secret of Hondorica" in (Dell, 1952 Series) #46 (March-April 1956). https://www.comics.org/issue/12731/#106997

Serenading gags reworked from an originally unpublished story in which Donald aggressively serenades Neighbor Jones with Christmas Carols. The Neighbor Jones story has since been printed in various collections.

Lost Frontier (Table of Contents: 12)

Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Look out, Captain Gadabout! That snowman will get you!
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in cursive]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Captain Gadabout; mesa-dwelling cavemen
Synopsis
On a remote high mesa, Donald and the nephews discover cavemen.
Reprints
Keywords
cavemen; exploring; mesa

Stranger than Fiction (Table of Contents: 13)

Donald Duck / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
What nicer way could one spend a rainy day than curled up with a good book!
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in cursive]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; experimental mice; various Duckburg police; police psychiatrist; Old Satchel Face (alligator)
Synopsis
Donald expresses his displeasure with his nephews reading science fiction, but then decides to show them up with the help of Gyro and his transport-beaming invention.
Reprints
Keywords
abounding oddities; one-upping; reading; science fiction; transporter

Indexer Notes

Gyro's device which transmits people and objects "electronically along beams of cosmic rays" would seem to be a forerunner to the Transporter technology of Star Trek the Original Series (1966-1969), as well as its many sequels, and at the same time derivative of Al (David) Hedison's ill-fated transport device from "The Fly" (1956), and perhaps additional media and literary precursors.

In this story, Gyro's invention was inspired by a science fiction magazine article titled "Ten Seconds to Mars" by Spicer Willits. The fictional author is a combined tribute to the earliest readers/fans to make contact with Carl Barks - John Spicer and Bill Spicer (the latter an eventual letterer for Western Publishing) and Malcolm Willits.

Originally submitted by Barks as a ten-page story, the equivalent of one full page has been edited out of Barks' submission for the original printed version and all subsequent reprints. Every printing of this story has been nine pages.

False Flattery (Table of Contents: 14)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - You just can't trust men - not even men parrots!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; parrot; attractive female duck
Synopsis
Daisy buys a parrot that compliments her, until he sees a more attractive option.
Reprints
Keywords
diary; fickleness; flattery; parrot

Indexer Notes

Top half of page.

[Junior Woodchucks Singing and Celebrating] (Table of Contents: 15)

Junior Woodchucks / illustration / 0.5 page (report information)

Pencils
Daan Jippes
Inks
Daan Jippes
Colors
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Junior Woodchucks
Synopsis
A truckload of Junior Woodchucks sing as they roll merrily along.
Keywords
repurposed art

Indexer Notes

A green-colored silhouette illustration repurposed from "Saviors of the Lake" page 2, panel 4. Lower half of page.

Boxed-In (Table of Contents: 16)

Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited) (rewrite); Chase Craig ? (original script)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Man, what a day!
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in cursive]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck
Synopsis
Huey, Dewey, and Louie try their best to sabotage Daisy and Donald's "Box Social" picnic trip.
Reprints
Keywords
Junior Woodchucks; picnic; sabotage

Indexer Notes

Per a previous indexer: "Barks rewrote a script sent to him by editor Chase Craig".

Mr. Private Eye (Table of Contents: 17)

Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Barks (credited)
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Susan Daigle-Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Great are the feats of fiction's clever detectives!
Feature Logo
Walt Disney Donald Duck ["Walt Disney" in plain upper/lowercase]
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; mayor of Duckburg; Daisy Duck; The Beagle Boys; various Duckburg police; three bakers; King Notraks of Toolong Sarong
Synopsis
Showing great deductive skills when it comes to solving mysteries and "who-dun-its" in books and on TV, Donald decides to become a private eye. His first case is to protect a valuable hypnotic opal from being swiped at an outdoor ceremony held to present the opal to a visiting king.
Reprints
Keywords
detective; opal; visiting royalty

A Sticky Situation (Table of Contents: 18)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Gregory
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - Men are BEASTS!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Donald Duck; Clarabelle Cow; Horace Horsecollar; April; May; June; tire-changing guy; logger; mountain climber; fireman; helicopter pilot;
Synopsis
Daisy, fed up with Donald and men in general, takes her nieces camping in the wilderness. Finding themselves stuck atop a high peak, and rescued by men, they decide all men are not beasts - just Donald.
Reprints
Keywords
battle-of-the-sexes; be-careful-what-you-wish-for; camping; diary; doing-something-their-own-way; high peak; rescue; wilderness

Indexer Notes

Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.

Ring Leader Roundup (Table of Contents: 19)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Gregory
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - Today I found a ring big enough to make a queen blink twice!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Donald Duck; police lost-and-found clerk; Moe the Jeweler; "Foots" Diamond (jewel smuggler); two Duckburg cops
Synopsis
Daisy finds a lost ring that she uses to make Donald think that she has a another boyfriend, but the ring contains a midget radio used by diamond smugglers.
Reprints
Keywords
diamond ring; diary; jealousy; jewels; mix-up; smuggling

Indexer Notes

Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.

Too Much Help (Table of Contents: 20)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Vic Lockman
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - Usually a letter from Grandma Duck is very cheery reading material, and so was this particular letter - until I read between the lines!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Grandma Duck; Gladstone Gander; Gus Goose
Synopsis
Daisy, convinced that Grandma Duck is having trouble, takes Gladstone to her farm to bring her luck.
Reprints
Keywords
best of intentions; diary; farm setting; good luck; series of mishaps; unwanted help; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.

Ruling the Roost (Table of Contents: 21)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Vic Lockman
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - Being a secretary isn't easy, especially when your boos is Uncle Scrooge McDuck!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Uncle Scrooge; taxi driver; startled pedestrian; super jet elevator operator; Scrooge's guards; Scrooge's valet; McDuck Motorcar Company engineers; Loot Chute contractor; Miss Robin (Daisy's secretary); group of Scrooge's creditors; excited car-wives; dour car-husbands
Synopsis
When Scrooge can't be found, Daisy makes decisions for him, until he's finally located stuck in a chute leading to his underground jewel vaults.
Reprints
Keywords
best of intentions; diary; doing-something-their-own-way; enterprise; executive decisions; ingenuity; missing person; mystery; overconfidence

Indexer Notes

Writer Bob Gregory's daughter, cartoonist Roberta Gregory, states the following in the Story Notes for "Ruling the Roost". "And though my dad did not write this story, he did write the first two non-Barks Daisy stories mentioned above."

This would indicate that Bob Gregory was the uncredited writer of "A Sticky Situation" and "Ring Leader Roundup".

Stylistic analysis of the remaining stories ("Too Much Help", Ruling the Roost", and "Daringly Different") would indicate their author to be the equally-uncredited writer Vic Lockman.

Daringly Different (Table of Contents: 22)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 4.5 pages (report information)

Script
Vic Lockman
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Digikore Studios (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - It suddenly dawned on me the other day that our civilization is becoming boring because everybody does everything just like everybody else!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Donald Duck; Gussie Fussy (Daisy's neighbor); Gyro Gearloose (cameo in silhouette only); reporter from "Hooray Home Magazine"; various other neighbors of Daisy)
Synopsis
Daisy tries to break out of cookie-cutter subdivision mold with unusual touches for her house and yard, but eventually all of her neighbors imitate her.
Reprints
Keywords
diary; doing-something-their-own-way; gardening; home decor; rugged individualist

[April, May, and June Do Some Baking] (Table of Contents: 23)

Daisy Duck's Diary / illustration / 0.5 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Barks
Inks
Carl Barks
Colors
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; April; May; June
Synopsis
Daisy's nieces seriously mess up her kitchen.
Keywords
repurposed art

Indexer Notes

A green-colored illustration repurposed from "Small Fryers" page 1, panel 4. Lower half of page.

Friendly Enemy (Table of Contents: 24)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (credited) (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - When I mentioned to Donald I was bored of late, he heartily suggested that I learn to skate!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Donald Duck
Synopsis
Donald suggests roller skating and then sculpting to alleviate Daisy's boredom. Neither go as planned.
Reprints
Keywords
best of intentions; boredom; diary; roller skating; sculpting

Indexer Notes

No actual character dialogue occurs in this story. It is entirely narrated by Daisy's diary entries. Each of those diary entries ends in a rhyme, except the last one.

Undercover Girl (Table of Contents: 25)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - One day I saw a hat that I simply had to have!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Clara Cluck; bird woman; pig woman
Synopsis
Daisy buys a new hat that's so big no one can see who she is.
Reprints
Keywords
diary; getting-more-than-you-bargained-for; hat

The Inventive Gentleman (Table of Contents: 26)

Daisy Duck's Diary / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Barks (credited)
Inks
Carl Barks (credited)
Colors
Gary Leach (color restoration)
Letters
Garé Barks
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Diary - I could tell from afar that the bus was quite overcrowded!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daisy Duck; Gyro Gearloose; many bus riders
Synopsis
Gyro comes to Daisy's aid when she has to stand on the bus.
Reprints
Keywords
bus; diary; less-than-satisfactory-solution