Four Color
#178 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck
(December 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1947-11-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK, No. 178". Code number is W.D.O.S. #178-4712. Copyright 1947 by Walt Disney Productions. Last Four Color to have "A Dell Magazine" emblem. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Donald Duck regular series #3?
On sale date (date of publication) per Copyright Entries 1947.
On sale date (date of publication) per Copyright Entries 1947.
Christmas on Bear Mountain
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan Gormley
- Inks
- Dan Gormley
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Reprints
-
in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #35/1960 (24. august 1960) which is reprinted - in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[40] - 1960 del 5 ([januar] 2006)
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in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #10 (Abril 2005) - in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #5 ([desember] 2006)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[65] - 1964 del 2 ([november] 2008) [0.25 page]
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in Walt Disney's Christmas Classics (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) (October 2009)
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- Keywords
- bear cubs; Christmas; stuffed animals
[Fashion in Flight]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Those big visors are really classy!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Daisy Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald buys a huge visor for his tiny car.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965)
-
in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #8 - Als nachtwaker (1978) - in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Duckmobiles (Classica forlag, 1991 series) (mai 1991)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #41/1997 (7. oktober 1997) which is reprinted
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #13/2010 ([29. mars] 2010)
- in Hall of Fame (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2004 series) #[3] - Carl Barks ([august] 2004) [2. translation] which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #5 ([desember] 2006)
- in Donald spesial (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2013 series) #[5/2016] ([oktober] 2016)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #9 (Abril 2005)
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #374 (February 2008)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[5] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain ([October] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, white, and red. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Christmas on Bear Mountain
Donald Duck / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Woe is me!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge (intro); Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck; Edgerton; James
- Synopsis
- Donald's stingy old Uncle Scrooge McDuck lets the ducks use his mountain cabin for the Christmas holidays, planning to test Donald's bravery by coming to the cabin disguised as a bear. However, two real bears--a mother and her cub--turn up at the cabin soon after the ducks' arrival.
- Reprints
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #26/1957 (18. desember 1957) [pages 1-10] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[23] - 1957 del 4 ([november] 2003)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #50/2012 (uke 50 desember 2012) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #1/1958 (1958) [pages 11-20] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[24] - 1958 del 1 ([januar] 2004)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #51-52/2012 (uke 51/52 desember 2012) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #51/1965 (15. desember 1965) [2. translation] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[77] - 1965 del 7 ([mars] 2010)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #48/1973 (27. november 1973) [3. translation, pages 1-10] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #50/1997 (9. desember 1997)
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[2002] - Carl Barks julespesial ([november] 2002) [side 1-10]
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #5 ([desember] 2006) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #49/1973 (4. desember 1973) [3. translation, pages 11-20] which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #50/1997 (9. desember 1997)
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[2002] - Carl Barks julespesial ([november] 2002) [side 9-16]
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #5 ([desember] 2006) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in The Best of Walt Disney Comics (Western, 1974 series) #96173 (1974)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #9 (February 1991)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #8 (August 1994)
- in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #608 (February 1997)
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (VNU Tijdschriften, 1998 series) #97 (1998)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #10 (Abril 2005)
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #372 (December 2007)
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Classics (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) (October 2009)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[5] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain ([October] 2013), #[5] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain ([October] 2013)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
Indexer Notes
Art submitted on July 22, 1947. First appearance of Uncle Scrooge. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Santa Claus Land
Mickey Mouse / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Gunn
- Inks
- Don Gunn
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Don Gunn
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Tis the day before Christmas!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Mickey Mouse; Goofy; The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Grumpy]; Santa Claus; Prancer; Dumbo; Willie the Giant
- Synopsis
- Mickey and Goofy are working at Santa's Workshop at the North Pole. Doc and Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo are also working there. Goofy is made custodian of Santa's reindeer, where he discovers that Prancer has been stolen by Willie the Giant.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #51/1965 (15. desember 1965) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Turn for the Worse]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm looking for Donald Duck!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald plays a joke by giving some misleading directions.
- Reprints
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #14/1959 (1. april 1959) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[30] - 1959 del II ([november] 2004)
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965)
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #10 - Als muzikant (1978)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1988 series) #13 ([February 1989])
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #12/1997 (17. mars 1997) [2. translation] which is reprinted
- in Hall of Fame (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2004 series) #[3] - Carl Barks ([august] 2004)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #5 ([desember] 2006) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #9 (Abril 2005)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[5] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain ([October] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, white, and red. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[Machine Mix-Up]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I must try out my new modern kitchen!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald tries out his new modern kitchen, with unhappy results.
- Reprints
- in Donald Ducks Show (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1957 series) #[9] - Store show [1964] ([1964])
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #24 - Als walskoning (1982)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)
- in Gladstone Comic Album Special (Gladstone, 1989 series) #2 (January 1990)
- in Tegneseriebokklubben (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #83 - Beste historier nr. 1: Kjæledegger ... og andre historier; Jim Jordan: Stikkeren i lånte fjær (1991) [2. translation] which is reprinted
- in Walt Disney's Beste Historier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1991 series) #1 - Kjæledegger ... og andre historier (1991)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #5 ([desember] 2006)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #9 (Abril 2005)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #6/2008 ([4. februar] 2008)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[5] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain ([October] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
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Table of Contents
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0.
Christmas on Bear Mountain
Donald Duck -
1.
[Fashion in Flight]
Donald Duck -
2.
Christmas on Bear Mountain
Donald Duck -
3.
Santa Claus Land
Mickey Mouse -
4.
[Turn for the Worse]
Donald Duck -
5.
[Machine Mix-Up]
Donald Duck
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