Four Color
#29 - Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring
(September 1943)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- On-sale Date
- 1943-08-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Carl Buettner (art director)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK AND THE MUMMY'S RING, No. 29." Code number is D.D.O.S. #29 439. Copyright 1943 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1943 Pamphlets, page 405.
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1943 Pamphlets, page 405.
Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck
- Reprints
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in Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring (Ayers & James, 1944 ? series) ([1944] ?) -
in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Western, 1968 series) #44 (December 1973) -
in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #9 (Abril 2005) -
in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #1 ([august] 2005)
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- Keywords
- ancient Egypt; sarcophagi
3 Big Stories
Donald Duck / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald puts up wall posters with the story titles on them.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring
Donald Duck / comic story / 28 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck; Black Pete
- Synopsis
- Huey is trapped inside a mummy case and taken to Egypt by emissaries of the Bey El Dagga, who is restoring life in his province to the way it was in ancient times. Donald and the other two nephews follow Huey by getting jobs on the ship carrying the mummy case, and later sailing a felucca up the Nile to the Bey's domain.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (Western, 1965 series) #1 (June 1965) which is reprinted
-
in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #1 ([1981]) - in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1991] - Klassiske bobler ([september] 1991) which is reprinted
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #8/1999 ([februar] 1999)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #1 ([august] 2005)
- in Klassisk Donald Duck (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2016 series) #6 - Mumiens ring ([mai] 2017)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #2 (February 1994)
- in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Western, 1968 series) #44 (December 1973)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #1 ([1981])
- in Donald Duck and His Nephews Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1983 series) (1983)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
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in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #1779 (29 juillet 1986) - in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #14 (August 1989)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #2 (February 1994)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #9 (Abril 2005)
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Indexer Notes
Art submitted on May 10, 1943. "Chris Couch, who worked with Barks as a story man at the Disney studio, is caricatured on a wanted poster on the seventh page of this story." Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
The Hard Loser
Donald Duck / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald and the nephews are rivals in the "Screwball Derby," a cross-country horse race in which any dirty trick may be played on the other contestants.
- Reprints
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #1 ([1981])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #1778 (22 juillet 1986)
- in Donald Duck Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #1 (November 1986)
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1987] - Så Fjæra Fyker! (1987) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #12/2001 (20. mars 2001)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #1 ([august] 2005)
- in Hall of Fame (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2004 series) #[18] - Carl Barks 4 ([juni] 2007)
- in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Disney, 1990 series) #551 (September 1990)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #2 (February 1994)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #10 (Abril 2005)
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Indexer Notes
Art submitted on May 29, 1943. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). Barks reworked this story for Chuckwagon Derby in Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #34.
Too Many Pets
Donald Duck / comic story / 26 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks; Merrill De Maris (plot)
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck; Jingo
- Synopsis
- An organ grinder gives the nephews a monkey named Jingo, who plays hob with Donald's house until Donald sells him to a stranger. The stranger proves to be a foreign spy who tries to use Jingo to steal some secret plans.
- Reprints
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #1 ([1981])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #1774 (24 juin 1986)
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1986] - Stjerneskudd ([september] 1986) which is reprinted
- in Donalds mange ansikter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1999 series) ([juni] 1999)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #1 ([august] 2005)
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #11/2021 (uke 11 2021)
- in Donald Duck Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #1 (November 1986)
- in Disney Comics Album (Disney, 1990 series) #7 (November 1990)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #2 (February 1994)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #9 (Abril 2005)
- in Walt Disney's Spring Fever (Gemstone, 2007 series) #2 (April 2008)
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Indexer Notes
Barks was given a half-outlined plot by de Maris and polished the gags and lengthened the story. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). (Barrier's synopsis says Donald gives the monkey to a stranger, but he actually sells him for 50 cents.)
[Donald Gets His Picture Taken]
Donald Duck / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck
- Synopsis
- While Donald is having his portrait taken, the cameraman holds a miniature version of Donald to look at.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
[Closing the Book]
Donald Duck / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald is on a ladder closing the book.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Reference is made by a nephew to a plot point in Sequence 2.
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Table of Contents
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0.
Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring
Donald Duck -
1.
3 Big Stories
Donald Duck -
2.
Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring
Donald Duck -
3.
The Hard Loser
Donald Duck -
4.
Too Many Pets
Donald Duck -
5.
[Donald Gets His Picture Taken]
Donald Duck -
6.
[Closing the Book]
Donald Duck
This issue was modified by, among others
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Darrel McCann
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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