Four Color
#291 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in The Magic Hourglass
(September 1950)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1950-07-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
On-sale date per Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series 1950.
Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in "THE MAGIC HOURGLASS", No. 291." Code number is D.D.O.S #291-509 (Code number appears to be altered.) Copyright 1950 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). Donald Duck #13?
Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in "THE MAGIC HOURGLASS", No. 291." Code number is D.D.O.S #291-509 (Code number appears to be altered.) Copyright 1950 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). Donald Duck #13?
The Magic Hourglass
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck
- Reprints
-
in Four Color (Wilson Publishing, 1947 series) #291 (October [1950]) -
in Cuentos de Walt Disney (Editorial Novaro, 1949 series) #17 (febrero de 1951) -
in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #40/2002 ([september] 2002) -
in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #12 (Junho 2005) - in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #8 ([desember] 2007)
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in La Dynastie Donald Duck (Glénat, 2010 series) #1 (décembre 2010)
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- Keywords
- hourglasses; sharks
Indexer Notes
Part of the "Animated Covers" series.
[Beach Trouble]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald wants to take a nap at the beach, but the nephews keep bothering him.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Walt Disney (Editorial Novaro, 1949 series) #17 (febrero de 1951)
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Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white.
The Magic Hourglass
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; Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Scrooge gives his nephews an hourglass that he later discovers is the source of his great wealth. Carrying a billion dollars to buy the hourglass back, he follows the ducks to Africa, where they have gone to fill the hourglass with fresh sand from the oasis of No Issa -- the only kind of sand that will keep perfect time in the hourglass and so make its owner richer by the hour.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Walt Disney (Editorial Novaro, 1949 series) #17 (febrero de 1951)
-
in Topolino (Mondadori, 1949 series) #25 (Marzo 1951) [part 1], #26 (Aprile 1951) [part 2] -
in Mickey Magazine (Editions du Pont-Levis, 1950 series) #129 (27 mars 1953) which is reprinted - in Mickey Magazine (NV Uitgaven Pont-Levis, 1950 Series) #?
- in Oscar Mondadori [Oscar Fumetto] (Mondadori, 1968 series) #170 - Vita e dollari di Paperon de' Paperoni (27 agosto 1968)
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in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) (1978) [reprint layout=13 pages, abridged?; original layout=28 pages] - in The Walt Disney Best Comics Series (Abbeville Press, 1980 series) #[4] - Donald Duck and the Magic Hour-glass (October 1980)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #9 ([1984])
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in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #37 - Als zandloper (1984) - in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1985] - Fin gammel årgang ([oktober] 1985) which is reprinted
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #40/2002 ([september] 2002)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #8 ([desember] 2007) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Klassisk Donald Duck (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2016 series) #5 - Donald Villand ([mars] 2017)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #16 (October 1989)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #16 (April 1995)
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #341 (May 2005)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #12 (Junho 2005)
- in La Dynastie Donald Duck (Glénat, 2010 series) #1 (décembre 2010)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[9] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck - The Pixilated Parrot (June 2015)
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Indexer Notes
Story submitted on March 16, 1950. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
The Spirit of '76
Donald Duck / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- The nephews decide to put on a play about the American Revolution. Donald takes charge and decides that the family should live like their forefathers in order to get the feel for their parts.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Walt Disney (Editorial Novaro, 1949 series) #17 (febrero de 1951)
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[Fishing Pelican]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck
- Synopsis
- A pelican ruins Donald's fishing.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Walt Disney (Editorial Novaro, 1949 series) #17 (febrero de 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
[Late for School]
Huey, Dewey and Louie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- The nephews make an excuse for being late to school.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Walt Disney (Editorial Novaro, 1949 series) #17 (febrero de 1951)
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Indexer Notes
Bottom half of the back cover.
[How To Make the Cover Move]
activity / 0.5 page
- Reprints
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #40/2002 ([september] 2002)
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Indexer Notes
Top half of back cover. Directions on how to make the front cover move.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Magic Hourglass
Donald Duck -
1.
[Beach Trouble]
Donald Duck -
2.
The Magic Hourglass
Donald Duck -
3.
The Spirit of '76
Donald Duck -
4.
[Fishing Pelican]
Donald Duck -
5.
[Late for School]
Huey, Dewey and Louie -
6.
[How To Make the Cover Move]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Darrel McCann
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Dave Porta
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
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