Orange-toned blank pages. Inside front cover and the first two interior pages.
- Pencils
- Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
- Inks
- Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Donald Duck
A Donald Duck head inside a circle, added to the middle of the Donald Duck logo.
- Script
- Mike Catron ?
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Keywords
- repurposed art
Publisher information, editorial credits, indicia, and a single illustration of Huey, Dewey, and Louie repurposed from the story "Sitting High" - page 10, panel 3.
- Pencils
- Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
- Inks
- Carl Barks (Donald Duck head illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Donald Duck
A Donald Duck head inside a circle, added to the middle of the Donald Duck logo. Lists "Fantagraphics Books Seattle" as publisher.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Daan Jippes
- Inks
- Daan Jippes
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Magica De Spell
- Keywords
- repurposed art
Includes a repurposed illustration of Magica De Spell by Daan Jippes from the story "Bottled Battlers" - page 3, panel 3.
Light green-toned blank page.
- 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
- 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
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).
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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
While the feature logo on this story reads "Daisy Duck", it is actually an entry in the "Daisy Duck's Diary" series.
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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
Top half of page.
- 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
A green-colored silhouette illustration repurposed from "Saviors of the Lake" page 2, panel 4. Lower half of page.
- 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
- 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
Per a previous indexer: "Barks rewrote a script sent to him by editor Chase Craig".
- 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!
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- 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
- 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
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.
- 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
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.
- 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
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.
- 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
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.
- 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
- 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
A green-colored illustration repurposed from "Small Fryers" page 1, panel 4. Lower half of page.
- 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
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.
- 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
- 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