Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #6 [Direct]

(November 1990)

It's Bats, Man! (Table of Contents: 1)

Donald Duck / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

John Lustig (credited)

Pencils

William Van Horn (credited)

Inks

William Van Horn (credited)

Colors

Susan Daigle-Leach (credited as Susan Daigle)

Letters

William Van Horn (credited)

Job Number

KD 0990

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Is Donald busy? Boy, is he ever!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Ms. Snoremore; frogs; ant-besieged homeowner; Tasmanian devil ants; various panicked citizens of Duckburg; terrified clown; circus strongman; Titano (the terrible ten foot tall gorilla); Roger Lotsagall (famous artist); Prudence Pettifog; bunch of bats

Synopsis

Donald is a master pest remover, until he meets his match in a bunch of artistic bats.

Reprints

• in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #6/1996 ([august] 1996)
• in Disney Masters: Donald Duck Free Comic Book Day 2020 Special Edition (Fantagraphics, 2020 series) (May 2, 2020)
• in Disney Masters (Fantagraphics, 2018 series) #18 - Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge: Pie in the Sky (2021)

Keywords

"The Brittle Mastery of Donald Duck"; ants; bats; dissatisfied customer; doing-something-their-own-way; frogs; gorilla; logo modification; overconfidence; pest removal; unintended slapstick consequences

Indexer Notes

xrefd: KD 3790

Lustig and Van Horn create a story in the mold of what has become known in fandom as "The Brittle Mastery of Donald Duck" - a sub-genre of stories by Carl Barks where Donald is an absolute master in some field of endeavor until he becomes overconfident, goes one step too far, and destroys his good reputation... along with many other things around him.

Lustig cleverly slips the names of some competitor's characters into his script - "Bat(s)man" (in the title), the Tasmanian Devil (small "d") and Titano the (not quite "super") ape. "Roger Lotsagall" appears to be a parody/tribute character of artist Marc Chagall.

Story has a modified version of the "William Van Horn Donald Duck Logo", where the words "Donald" and "Duck" are on a single tier.

The Mycologist (Table of Contents: 2)

Donald Duck / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Vicar (credited)

Inks

Vicar (credited)

Colors

Cris Palomino (credited)

Letters

?

Job Number

D 8164

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Wow! I can tell from the heft of this picnic basket that I'm gonna come back from this outing one stuffed duck!

Feature Logo

Donald Duck [William Van Horn Logo- Two Lines]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Daisy Duck; Gladstone Gander; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Synopsis

Daisy takes Donald mushroom picking, with Donald enduring much pain and suffering in the name of finding fungi for his fair lady. Gladstone, as expected, has an easier time of it - but mushrooms have a way of being... complicated.

Reprints

• from Egmont (DK)

Keywords

forest setting; luck; mushrooms; rivalry; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

Style Points: A mushroom takes the place of the "t" at the end of the title "The Mycologist".

No writer or lettering credits.

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

Destination: Duckburg / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

William Van Horn (logo illustration)

Inks

William Van Horn (logo illustration)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Donald Duck; mailman (in logo illustration)

Keywords

letters of comment