Donald Duck Best Comics [2nd printing, 1987]

(1987)

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Indexer Notes

Includes inside front cover

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illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Characters

Donald Duck

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

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

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?

Inks

?

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?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Walt Disney Donald Duck

Characters

Donald Duck

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 4)

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typeset

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Donald Duck (Table of Contents: 6)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks (credited); various

Pencils

Carl Barks (credited); various

Inks

Carl Barks (credited); various

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?

Letters

typeset; various

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Being the author and illustrator of the ten short novels that appear in the following pages, this writer has more than a passing interest in the public's reaction to this radically new type of book.

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Little Red Hen; Peter Pig; Mickey Mouse; Pegleg Pete; Goofy; Morty; Ferdy; Minnie Muse; Clara Cluck; Uncle Scrooge; Florence Gill (photo); Clarence Nash (photo)

Reprints

• in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #30 ([desember] 2008) [foreword, text only]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Donald Duck / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Letters

Carl Barks

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It's stopped -- talk fast!

Genre

humor

Characters

Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge

Synopsis

Sonic booms annoy Uncle Scrooge

Indexer Notes

"Initial sketches for a comic-strip episode," according to the caption

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Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Frozen Gold

Characters

Donald Duck

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

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Frozen Gold (Table of Contents: 11)

Donald Duck / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Peg-leg Pete

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #62 - Donald Duck in Frozen Gold (January 1945) [revised layout=11 pages, abridged?; original layout=24 pages]

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credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lost in the Andes

Characters

Donald Duck; llama

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Lost in the Andes (Table of Contents: 15)

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

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #223 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in "Lost in the Andes" (April 1949) [reprint layout=12 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Maharaja Donald

Characters

Huey; Louie; Dewey

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Maharajah Donald (Table of Contents: 18)

Donald Duck / comic story / 12.5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Reprints

• from Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #[4] (1947) [reprint layout=12.5 pages, abridged?; original layout=28 pages]
• from March of Comics (Dell, 1946 series) #[nn-4] (1946) [original layout=28 pages, abridged?]

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Luck of the North

Characters

Donald Duck

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 21)

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Luck of the North (Table of Contents: 22)

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

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Gladstone Gander

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #256 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in "Luck of the North" (December 1949) [reprint layout=14 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages]

Indexer Notes

[idea Dana Coty]

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credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Land of the Totem Poles

Characters

Donald Duck

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Land of the Totem Poles (Table of Contents: 25)

Donald Duck / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #263 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in "Land of the Totem Poles" (February 1950) [reprint layout=11 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages]

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 27)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Magic Hourglass

Characters

Donald Duck

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The Magic Hourglass (Table of Contents: 29)

Donald Duck / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #291 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in The Magic Hourglass (September 1950) [reprint layout=13 pages, abridged?; original layout=28 pages]

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 31)

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A Christmas for Shacktown

Characters

Donald Duck

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A Christmas for Shacktown (Table of Contents: 33)

Donald Duck / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

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

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #367 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in A Christmas for Shacktown (January 1952) [reprint layout=15 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages]

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 35)

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Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

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?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Only a Poor Man

Characters

Donald Duck

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 36)

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Only a Poor Man [Only a Poor Old Man] (Table of Contents: 37)

Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 14.5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Beagle Boys

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #386 - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge in Only a Poor Old Man (March 1952) [reprint layout=14.5 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages]

Indexer Notes

The table of contents says Only a Poor Old Man (which is the most commonly-used unofficial title). The story title page, and the first page of the story, each say Only a Poor Man.

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 39)

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Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

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The Golden Helmet

Characters

Donald Duck

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 40)

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The Golden Helmet (Table of Contents: 41)

Donald Duck / comic story / 14.5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #408 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck and the Golden Helmet (July-August 1952) [reprint layout=14.5 pages, unabridged?; original layout=32 pages]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 42)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 43)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

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?

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Gilded Man

Characters

Donald Duck

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 44)

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The Gilded Man (Table of Contents: 45)

Donald Duck / comic story / 14.5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Gladstone Gander

Reprints

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #422 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck and The Gilded Man (September-October 1952) [reprint layout=14.5 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 46)

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Mickey's Tour of the Walt Disney Animation Department (Table of Contents: 47)

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Script

? [as Mickey Mouse]

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Now it's time to follow me.

Genre

non-fiction

Mickey's Guide to Familiar Walt Disney Comic Characters (Table of Contents: 48)

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Script

? [as Mickey Mouse]

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Letters

typeset

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In the beginning -- in 1930 -- my daily comic strips were created and published only in black-and-white, although the halftone screen made it possible to achieve effective and suggestive contrasts between light and shadow.

Genre

non-fiction

Graphic Development 1930-1970 (Table of Contents: 49)

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On January 13, 1930, certain newspapers in the United States published the first comic strip of my adventures.

Genre

non-fiction

Expressions and Images (Table of Contents: 50)

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Script

? [as Mickey Mouse]

Pencils

Carl Barks

Letters

typeset

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The power of expression, the outer display of inner emotions, is marked by the lines, furrows, and tensions of certain muscles or certain nerves in the human face.

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Mickey Mouse

Walt Disney Around the World (Table of Contents: 51)

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The strength of the Disney language -- that is, the powerful vein of subtle humor that runs through the characters, the immediacy and warmth of their communication, their delightfully human personalities -- has been transformed into a universal language.

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Goofy

Indexer Notes

Disney character names as known in English, Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Greek, Japanese, and Arabic

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 53)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carl Barks

Inks

Carl Barks

Colors

?

Characters

Donald Duck

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 54)

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Indexer Notes

Includes back cover, and inside back cover