Donald Duck
#229
(July 1981)
Western,
1962 Series
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1981
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Whitman W [with Face]
- Editing
- Del Connell (editor); Larry Mayer (art director)
Issue Notes
Cover code: 90037-107. Date calculated from code number.
All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint.
Final issue of this series to run advertising on its 32 interior pages. Beginning with the next issue, all advertising is restricted to Whitman Comics house ads only, and is limited to the inside front, inside back, and back covers. All future issues, to the end of the Whitman run in 1984, will have 32 interior pages of comics or comics-related text material.
All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint.
Final issue of this series to run advertising on its 32 interior pages. Beginning with the next issue, all advertising is restricted to Whitman Comics house ads only, and is limited to the inside front, inside back, and back covers. All future issues, to the end of the Whitman run in 1984, will have 32 interior pages of comics or comics-related text material.
Donald Duck and the Pixilated Parrot
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Polly the Parrot
- Synopsis
- Donald and the boys find Polly the Parrot inside Uncle Scrooge's vault, tallying on an adding machine.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adding machine; blunderbuss; counting; parrot; slingshots; vault
Donald Duck and "The Pixilated Parrot"
Donald Duck / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh boy! Ships from! The seven seas!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Polly the Parrot; sailor (Polly's owner); two black-masked burglars (proto Beagle Boys?); angry old lady; ship's mate; female parrot; kid parrots; hamburger joint owner
- Synopsis
- Donald gives Uncle Scrooge a parrot that only counts, instead of talking, and Scrooge has the parrot memorize the combination to his safe; which Scrooge has been forgetting. However the parrot first gives the combination to two burglars and then flies away to a boat bound for Latin America.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- birthday present; burglars; desperate search; jungle; parrot; sailors; ships
Mystery, Adventure, Science Fiction Much, Much More
Original Radio Broadcasts / advertisement / 0.5 page
The Big Splash
The Big Bad Wolf / text story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Murry
- Inks
- Paul Murry
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Paul Murry (title lettering only); typeset
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "AHKERCHOO!" went the Big Bad Wolf, faking an enormous sneeze and rolling his eyes pathetically towards Li'l Wolf.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Big Bad Wolf [Zeke Wolf]; Li'l Bad Wolf; Three Little Pigs [Practical Pig; Fifer Pig; Fiddler Pig]
- Synopsis
- Zeke fakes a bad cold and stays in bed, allowing Li'l Wolf and the Three Pigs to enjoy a worry-free day at the beach. But the scheming wolf soon shows up at the shore disguised as a kindly old lady.
- Reprints
-
from Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (Dell, 1952 series) #48 (June-July 1956)
-
- Keywords
- beach; cold; disguise; feigning illness; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal
[Noise Abatement]
Goofy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Strobl
- Inks
- Tony Strobl
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Clank! Rattle! Sputt! Boink!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Goofy
- Synopsis
- Goofy pushes his noisy car for the length of a hospital zone where quiet is requested.
- Reprints
- from Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (Dell, 1952 series) #48 (June-July 1956)
-
- Keywords
- car; doing-something-their-own-way; hospital zone; need-for-peace-and-quiet; noise
Indexer Notes
Pantomime.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Donald Duck and the Pixilated Parrot
Donald Duck -
1.
Doctor Solar Man of the Atom
Doctor Solar -
2.
Donald Duck and "The Pixilated Parrot"
Donald Duck -
3.
The Exciting New! Flipit
Flipit -
4.
Little Lulu
Little Lulu -
5.
Mystery, Adventure, Science Fiction Much, Much More
Original Radio Broadcasts -
6.
I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat!
Tweety and Sylvester -
7.
Super Pocket Toy Values
Toy Values -
8.
Snippys
Snippys -
9.
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther -
10.
Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker -
11.
The Big Splash
The Big Bad Wolf -
12.
[Noise Abatement]
Goofy -
13.
Authentic Stone - Perfect Condition Apache Arrowheads
Arrowheads -
14.
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck -
15.
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