| INDEX | ART | ANIMATION | [COMICS] | CHARACTERS | QUOTES | DIARY | PHOTOGRAPHS | BIBLIOGRAPHY | LINKS | SOURCES |
| One Shots | [Comics and Stories] | Our Gang | Giveaways | Donald Duck | Uncle Scrooge | Junior Woodchucks | Various | Europe |
| 031 - 051 | [052 - 075] | 076 - 099 | 100 - 117 | 124 - 147 | 148 - 171 | 172 - 195 | 196 - 219 | 220 - 243 | 244 - 267 | 268 - 291 | 292 - 315 | 316 - 633 | -X- |
| COMICS | Comics and Stories 052 - 075 (1945 - 1946) |
I never quit! I'll be right back in the fray
as soon as I take an aspirin for my headache!
-- Donald Duck
Landmark: As far as known, the only published 1940s story of which some original art has survived.
Surviving material: Original art of page 4. It survived because a very eager Donald Duck strip reader wrote to Dell Publishing in 1940s and asked for any original Donald Duck strip. The point was that he had read newspaper strips, which were drawn by Al Taliaferro. Later these two half pages were sold and resold as Taliaferro's art, until someone noticed the real artist. On the bottom half-page there is one correction. Barks has at first drawn stitches on the live rat and corrected them on the toy rat (in panel 4.6).
Congruences:
Appearances: Rattlesnake, meanest hoss in forty-seven states (2.5)
Research:
Sleepwalking Donald believes he's in a "Jap ambush". (7.4) This is a
reference to
Stay where you are! If I save you, I'll be a hero!
So I'm going to save you!
-- Donald Duck
Layout: Pages have 10 to 12 panels each, most have 12.
Research:
The woman on the left in panel 9.8 also appears in the 17 June 1941 strip of
Floyd Gottfredson / Merril de Maris'
"Mickey Mouse in Love trouble"
(Mickey Mouse dailies 14 April 1941 - 5 July 1941,
reprinted in WDC 36 to 39).
(See illustration, taken from a Dutch reprint.)
Congruences:
Sources
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Layout: Pages have 10 to 12 panels each, most have 12.
Layout: Pages have 10 to 12 panels each.
Research: As part of Donald's feather ornament, swastikas can be seen. (5.4)
Layout: Pages have 9 to 11 panels each, most have 11.
Cross-references: Next monthly's «water ski race with wires and pulleys» contains a cross-reference.
Why don't you look where you're going, you petrified roadhog?
Do you need the whole lake to grunt around in?
-- Donald Duck
Backstage: Donald ends up in jail in the last panel. (10.8) When Barks did the same in "The Firebug" (OS 108-02), submitted less than a month later, on July 19, 1945, the editor decided to turn the end of that story, into Donald waking up from a dream.
Cross-references: The nephews are bathing in pile of cash, and Donald comments: "The kids are rolling in money since they got that five hundred dollars reward for catching the bank bandit last month!" (1.1) This is a cross-reference to what happened in the previous monthly, in «thug busters inc.».
Questions: Donald ends up in a brick building with metal bars on the window. It looks like a jail or prison. A sign in front says "durance vile" (old fashioned English form of unpleasant endurance - meaning imprisonment or confinement). Is this a phrase formerly (or currently) used by judges in USA or The British Commonwealth of Nations in sentencing defendents found guilty?
Men! I hate 'em!
-- Esmeralda (Miss Moosey's parrot)
Changes: In an April 1968 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks said the ducks' halos in the last panel were added by an editor.
Status: Since the halos seem to have been added in empty parts of the panel, apparently no art was damaged.
CBL-notes: (R) In the last panel of this story, the halos added by the Western editors are removed. Panel as printed by Western is not shown.
Reconstructions: In "The Carl Barks Library - Set VII" the halos are removed.
Correspondence:
Other views:
I'm a wildcat, am I? Take that!.. And that!..
How dare you suggest that I lose my temper!
-- Daisy Duck
Trivia: Donald's address is mentioned as "Oak Street" (10.9).
Backstage: In a 1945 cartoon titled «Cured Duck», Daisy demands that Donald controls his hot temper, but finally reveals herself to be just as volatile. Barks's story builds on the same idea. According to Tom Andrae, in the Carl Barks Library, it may well have been sparked by that cartoon.
Research:
The nephews' say that Donald has forty pounds of sugar hidden in the
garage. (6.3) This could be a reference to
Congruences:
Great Scott! Those sounds come from living beings!
-- unnamed person
Additional credits: Christmas story intended for WDC 64. It was rejected for being too sacrilegious and un-Disney. Detailed information
Description: Donald is gushing over with the Christmas spirit and he decides to sing the carol "Silent Night" at peoples' doors. After two unsuccessful attempts, Donald starts singing for neighbour Jones and this soon ends up in a not-so-silent night after all.
Surviving material:
Lost material: CZ WDC 64 christmas caroling at peoples' doors [lost cut material]
Status: Page 1A is lost.
CBL-notes: Colored.
Reconstructions:
Remakes: See "reconstructions" field.
Congruences:
Additional credits: See christmas caroling at peoples' doors, for more information.
Research:
Donald goes to a "war surplus" store (7.3). This store doesn't sell depth bombs
and so Donald asks for dynamite (7.4). This scene could be a reference to
If a small kite will fly two hundred feet up, a big kite
should go a mile into the blue!
-- Donald Duck
Grunt!
-- Deltoid Biceppa
Siwash, show these rude rowdies your education! Spell 'mississippi'!
-- Donald Duck
CBL-notes: Panels 9.5, 9.6, 10.1 and 10.2 are redrawn.
Appearances: Herbert (1.2); Tagalong (Herbert's pup, 1.2 and 5.4); "Dogs" (book title, 2.7); gracklehound (2.1); boxhead bleagle (2.2); smugsnorkle squatty (smartest dogs in the world, mentioned on page 88 of "Dogs" book, 2.4); Grand Genius III of Old Siwash (name of Donald's smugsnorkle squatty, has a mile long pedigree and is trained, 3.5 and 8.8); Siwash (nephews' name for Grand Genius III of Old Siwash, 3.6); Super Bite Dog Biskits (3.7); Swankmore Kennels (seller of the smugsnorkle squatty, 8.8); Blitz Stump Removers (mentioned on sign with slogan "We blast with care", 9.8); Herbert's father (mentioned as trainer of "substitutes for setting hens", 10.7).
Details: Panel 2.4 spells "smugsnorkle squatty". Panels 2.5 and 2.7 spell "smugsnorkle squattie". Panels 3.1 and 3.2 spell "squattie"
Questions:
Is the reprint in "The Carl Barks Library" (except for the four redrawn
panels) identical to the reprint in "Walt Disney's Comics & Stories"
No. 305, 1966?
Also, in panel 10.7 the second balloon has an odd shape, as if the balloon
was enlarged to fit the word "substitutes" into it. Is this also the case
in the original comic?
I'll get out of this gravel sometime, and when I do
I'll make hamburger atoms of those kids!
-- Donald Duck
Congruences:
Appearances: Thanksgiving [Day] (1.2); Potto Gas (1.3); Finnegan's Hall (A.D. 1906, "Hocus plus pocus", location of raffle at ten o'clock A.M., tickets $1.00, prize is a turkey, 1.6, 2.4 and 2.5); 236037 (number on the raffle ticket, 2.1); Barks Dog Soup (4.2); Raffles (name for the male turkey won by the nephews, 4.3); Oolated Squiggs (4.4); Acme Swofs (4.4); Texas (5.3); Watson (5.3); Southside Park (5.4); Southside Good Joes' Turkey Shoot (turkey shoot in Soutside Park, with a mortgage on the hall, three bullseyes out of five win a bird, 5.5 and 6.6); creek in Southside Park (5.6); San Pedro (5.8); Buffalo Bill (6.1); golf course near Southside Park (6.2).
Backstage: On panel 4.2, a can of "Barks Dog Soup" is shown in Donald's kitchen-cupboard. In a May 17, 1981, letter to Barrier, Barks wrote: "As for the can of dog food with Barks on it..., I probably put the name on it myself just to see if the editors would white it out." This is the only Barks story in which his name appears.
Joseph Cowles wrote in a August 2, 2000 e-mail:
"[Garé] said that Carl was always disappointed that he couldn't sign his art, and from time to time would try to sneak in his signature or some other means of identifying his work, but that the editors at Western usually discovered and removed it.
(Fans certainly didn't have any difficulty identifying "The Good Artist," but it does give one a glimpse of Barks' underlying insecurity in those days. At some level, he really did consider himself to be "a failed chicken farmer." He told me that he was longing for the day when he could retire from the grinding deadline pressures of cartooning, and thought he might be happiest opening up a little cabinet shop where he could work with his hands to create things from wood.)"Only two issues later, on the cover of "Walt Disney Comics and Stories" No. 78, Barks name was mentioned by Walt Kelly (or Carl Buettner?). On the cover of this issue a box is labeled "Bark's [sic] Jiffy Chicken Dinner" - a reference to Barks' 1940s chicken farm at San Jacinto, California.
Research:
In panel 1.7, Huey says: "The blue streak you see next will be Huey Duck on his
way to a raffle!" At first glance, foreign readers might mistake this as a hint
of what colour Huey's cap could be. (As happened on this site.)
In an August 1, 2006 email to the Disney Comics Mailing List, Dan Shane
corrected: "Blue streak" is an American idiom that signifies anything moving
at such high speed to essentially appear as a blur, so it would not matter
what color clothing the individual was wearing. He would never be considered
a streak of any color but blue."
Congruences:
Correspondence:
Updates: In panel 3.7, the nephews sing "Jingle Bells", which is an existant Christmas song.
Questions: In "The Carl Barks Library - Set VII" a thin line appears on the can with Acme Swofs (4.4), as if one of either words could have been added later. Is this also the case in the original comic?
Sources
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