Four Color
#367 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck in A Christmas for Shacktown
(January 1952)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Apparently Donald Duck regular series #21?
A Christmas for Shacktown
Donald Duck / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck [Santa Claus]; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Reprints
-
in Kalle Anka & C:o (Richters Förlag AB, 1948 series) #12/1952 (december 1952) -
in Cuentos de Walt Disney (Editorial Novaro, 1949 series) #39 (1 de diciembre de 1952) -
in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #12/1953 (desember 1953) which is reprinted - in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[9] - 1953 del 3 (2001)
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #49/2003 ([1. desember] 2003), #51/2018 (uke 51 2018)
- in Carl Barks' jul (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #2021 (Julen 2021)
-
in Donald Duck (Geïllustreerde Pers, 1952 series) #52/1953 (26 december 1953) -
in Walt Disney's Donald Duck (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1954 series) #168 (1970) -
in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #11 ([1983]) [art work only], #11 ([1983]), #32 ([1985]) -
in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986) - in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1988 series) #25 ([April 1990])
- in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #633 (February 1999)
-
in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #30 (2007) - in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #9 ([april] 2008)
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #50-51/2011 ([16. desember] 2011)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[11] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas; Christmas trees; snow; toy trains
Indexer Notes
Cover submitted on May 24, 1951. Redrawn version in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #2; Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #8.
[Treeing Off]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- The nephews make tree ornaments out of Donald's golf balls.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #2 (January 1964) which is reprinted
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #11 ([1983])
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #34 - Als kwiskandidaat (1983)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986)
- in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1988 series) #25 ([April 1990])
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)
- in Uncle Scrooge Bargain Book: Walt Disney's Comics in Color (Gladstone, 1995 ? series) #4 ([1998 ?])
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #31 (2007)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #9 ([april] 2008) which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks' jul (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #[2010] (Julen 2010)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[11] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012)
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Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
A Christmas for Shacktown
Donald Duck / comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Daisy Duck; Gladstone Gander; Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- The ducks and Daisy get Scrooge's promise to match their twenty-five dollars for Christmas dinner and a toy train for the poor children of Shacktown. Scrooge is unable to deliver when the floor of his money bin collapses and his money falls deep into an unknown cavern, separated by only a thin crust from bottomless quicksand.
- Reprints
-
in Micky Maus Sonderheft (Egmont Ehapa, 1951 series) #21 - Weihnachten für Kummersdorf which is reprinted - in Micky Maus - Reprint-Kassette (Egmont Ehapa, 1996 series) #Sonderhefte 2 - Micky-Maus-Sonderheft 21
- in Die tollsten Geschichten von Donald Duck (Egmont Ehapa, 1965 series) #3 ([Dezember] 1965) which is reprinted
- in Topolino (Mondadori, 1949 series) #37 (Gennaio 1952)
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #12/1954 ([desember] 1954) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #11/1992 ([desember] 1992)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[12] - 1954 del 3 (2001)
- in Carl Barks' Beste (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2001 series) ([mars] 2001) [ny teksting og farger]
- in Carl Barks' jul (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #[2005] (Julen 2005)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #9 ([april] 2008) [bearbeidet oversettelse] which is reprinted
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #50-51/2011 ([16. desember] 2011)
- in Carl Barks' jul (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #2021 (Julen 2021)
- in Donald Duck og vennene hans (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2015 series) (2015) [oversettelse ikke sjekket]
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #51/2018 (uke 51 2018) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
-
in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #291 (22 décembre 1957) - in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #2 (January 1964)
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #12/1967 ([desember] 1967) [2nd translation, 9 pages removed]
- in Oscar Mondadori [Oscar Fumetto] (Mondadori, 1968 series) #170 - Vita e dollari di Paperon de' Paperoni (27 agosto 1968)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1954 series) #168 (1970)
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #8 (January 1971) which is reprinted
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #8 [Third Printing]
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Treasury (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) (1978)
- in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) (1978) [reprint layout=15 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages]
- in Walt Disney's Godbiter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1981 series) #42 ([desember ?] 1982) [4. translation]
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #11 ([1983])
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #35 - Als weldoener (1983)
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986)
- in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1988 series) #25 ([April 1990])
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #30 (February 1995)
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #19 (July 1995)
- in Uncle Scrooge Bargain Book: Walt Disney's Comics in Color (Gladstone, 1995 ? series) #4 ([1998 ?])
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #336 (December 2004)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #30 (2007)
- in Walt Disneys Weihnachtsklassiker (Egmont Ehapa, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Les Plus Belles Histoires des Castors Juniors (Glénat, 2011 series) #1 (avril 2011)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[11] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012)
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- Keywords
- Christmas; Christmas trees; money bin; poverty; raffles; slums; toy trains; turkeys
Indexer Notes
Art submitted on February 15 (first ten pages) and March 15, 1951 (rest of story). Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[Christmas Kiss]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Daisy Duck; Donald Duck
- Synopsis
- Donald brings his own mistletoe to win a kiss from Daisy.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #12/1954 ([desember] 1954) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #11/1992 ([desember] 1992)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[12] - 1954 del 3 (2001)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #9 ([april] 2008) [bearbeidet oversettelse] which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks' jul (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #[2010] (Julen 2010)
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Western, 1963 series) #2 (January 1964) which is reprinted
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #12/1967 ([desember] 1967) [2nd translation]
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #3 - Als schipper (1976) which is reprinted
- in Paperino d'oro (Mondadori, 1979 series) #12 (Maggio 1980)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #11 ([1983])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986)
- in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 series) #537 (March 1989)
- in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1988 series) #25 ([April 1990])
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #50/1992 (8. desember 1992) [3. translation]
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)
- in Uncle Scrooge Bargain Book: Walt Disney's Comics in Color (Gladstone, 1995 ? series) #4 ([1998 ?])
- in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gemstone, 2003 series) #1 ([November] 2003)
- in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #5 - Donald Duck (2005)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #29 (2007)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[11] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012)
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Sanoma Uitgevers, 2001 series) #3 [herdruk] - Als schipper (2013)
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Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Art submitted on May 24, 1951. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[Projecting Desires]
Donald Duck / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Huey Duck Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- The nephews write a Christmas list the size of a postage stamp.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #12/1954 ([desember] 1954) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #11/1992 ([desember] 1992)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[12] - 1954 del 3 (2001)
- in Walt Disney's Comics (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1946 series) #111 (1955)
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Oberon, 1976 series) #16 - Als circusclown (1980)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #11 ([1983])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986)
- in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #251 (March 1987)
- in Gladstone Comic Album (Gladstone, 1988 series) #25 ([April 1990])
- in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)
- in Uncle Scrooge Bargain Book: Walt Disney's Comics in Color (Gladstone, 1995 ? series) #4 ([1998 ?])
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #51/1998 (15. desember 1998) which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #9 ([april] 2008)
- in Carl Barks' jul (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #2011 (julen 2011)
- in Bilag til Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1997 series) #51-52/2014 ([19. desember] 2014)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #29 (2007)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[11] - Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown (2012)
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Indexer Notes
Backcover; Art submitted on May 24, 1951. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
A Christmas for Shacktown
Donald Duck -
1.
[Treeing Off]
Donald Duck -
2.
A Christmas for Shacktown
Donald Duck -
3.
[Christmas Kiss]
Donald Duck -
4.
[Projecting Desires]
Donald Duck
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Robert Copeman
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Darrel McCann
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
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