GYRO GEARLOOSE NO. 1184
Barks' work records for October 1960 show that he did four covers and 32 interior
pages for Gyro Gearloose One Shot 1184. However,
neither of the two editions of the comic contained all 36 pages. Apparently, three
pages were cut from the four stories in the issue, which are:
- W OS 1184-02 Monsterville
- 10 pages as published
- W OS 1184-03 The Cube
- 5 pages as published
- W OS 1184-06 Mighty but Miserable
- 7 pages as published
- W OS 1184-07 Brain-strain
- 7 pages as published
In both editions, only 29 of the 32 pages of story-material were published:
- Edition with advertisements
- Contains ads on the inside front cover, outside back cover, center two pages,
and a half-page Donald Duck gag (not by Barks) and a half-page ad on page 32
- Edition without advertisements
- Gyro gags by Barks replace the two cover ads, two non-Barks Gyro-gags replace
the center page ad, and a full-page non-Barks Donald Duck gag appears on page 32.
Dell had been publishing two (or more) editions of some comics for a number of years,
dating back at least to the mid-1950s. The cuts in the edition with ads aren't hard
to explain (running an edition without ads at this particular time is a
little harder to explain). Replacing the center page and page 32 ads with
gags probably meant changing one plate for part of the press run. To have one
edition with ads and another with the whole 32-page interior as originally drawn
would have required changing all plates. Some material was most likely deleted
in the vicinity of page 2 of "
All cut art is lost.