Donald Duck #367

(June 2011)

Whale of a Good Deed (Table of Contents: 1)

Donald Duck / credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck

Keywords

issue credits

Whale of a Good Deed (Table of Contents: 2)

Junior Woodchucks / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks (credited)

Pencils

Daan Jippes (credited)

Inks

Daan Jippes (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

David Gerstein (credited)

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor for story only, not art, lettering, or coloring)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were saving the whales long before it became a cause! Duckburg will always remember Tidal Wave Pluvius…

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Donald Duck (cameo); Daisy Duck (cameo); Uncle Scrooge; Huey; Dewey; Louie; various other Junior Woodchucks; Littlest Chickadees; Sandy McCinder; The Great T.O.P. B.R.A.S.S. (Woodchuck leader)

Synopsis

In the wake of a massive tidal wave, Uncle Scrooge and the Junior Woodchucks clash over the fate of a beached whale, deposited by the tidal wave into a muddy ditch. The Woodchucks are out to free the whale and return it to the sea, while Scrooge intends to “render this mammal into countless barrels of whale oil”.

Reprints

• from Anders And & Co. (Egmont, 1949 series) #40/2006
• in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #25 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Balloonatics (November 2021)

Keywords

boiler; ditch; environmental awareness; flood; steam; tidal wave; tug-of-war; whale; working-at-cross-purposes

Indexer Notes

The story is redrawn after the Carl Barks scenario from Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (Western, 1966 series) #7 (October 1970). Pages and panels are reconfigured from the original version drawn by John Carey – the original was 17 pages, and this version (by condensing panels) comes to 14 pages. The first line (caption box) has been expanded to read: “Huey, Dewey, and Louie were saving the whales long before it became a cause! Duckburg will always remember Tidal Wave Pluvius…”, when the original only read: “Duckburg will always remember Tidal Wave Pluvius…”. Donald Duck appears in only one panel of this lead story in his own title because this Junior Woodchucks story was intended for a future issue of Uncle Scrooge (thus the cover – and story – without Donald), but was forced into the last Boom! issue of Donald Duck instead. No colorist is credited for this story. Carl Barks’ original published script called the unfortunate beached whale “Muddy Dick” (presumably a melding of “Moby Dick” and the whale being stuck in the mud), while this version renames the whale as “Muddy Mick”.

Tree's a Crowd (Table of Contents: 3)

Donald Duck / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

William Van Horn (credited)

Pencils

William Van Horn (credited)

Inks

William Van Horn (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

William Van Horn

Editing

Byron Erickson (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How cozy and genteel I feel when I start the day with tea and crumpets in the garden!

Feature Logo

Walt Disney Presents Donald Duck [Carl Barks Dell Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; crows; raccoons; cats; pet shop clerk

Synopsis

Donald tries to cut down a tall pine tree in his backyard. What could go wrong?

Reprints

• from Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #271 (April 1989)

Keywords

cats; chain saw; crows; dogged persistence; know-it-all; pine cones; pine tree; raccoons; rope; storm; thunderheads; unintended slapstick consequences

Indexer Notes

No colorist is credited for this story.