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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published December 1953-February 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Art submitted on May 7, 1953.

Cover Details - "money-patched coat"

Characters Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge
Genre funny animal
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted on May 7, 1953.
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #190 (November 1981) [partly redrawn]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #351

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Ballet Evasions"

Characters Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck
Synopsis Scrooge uses ballet to elude such pests as a process server and a bill collector.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside front cover. Art submitted on May 21, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #260 (November 1991); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 Series) #1 (July 1992)

32 page Uncle Scrooge story "The Menehune Mystery"

Characters Beagle Boys; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge has his money canned before shipping it to a Hawaiian island he has bought, but the Beagle Boys have infiltrated the canning operation and have bought the ship Scrooge uses. They make the ducks their prisoners on the island, which is now populated only by one old Hawaiian Opu Nui (Big Tummy) and the menehunes--the tiny ones.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on May 28, 1959. "According to Barks, his wife Garé--who had begun working as his assistant only shortly before--suggested the locale for this story and told him about the menehunes. [August 1978 letter to Michael Barrier]." Note and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #190 (November 1981); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #11 (December 1988) [reprint title: Hawaiian Hideaway]; in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #4 (August 1996); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #47 (June 1997); in Uncle Scrooge Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #5 (September 1987) [reprint title: Hawaiian Hideaway]

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "The Cheapest Weigh"

Characters Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck
Synopsis Scrooge finds a way to avoid paying a penny but still learns his weight.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside back cover. Art submitted on May 21, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 Series) #1 (July 1992); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #214 (February 1987)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Bum Steer"

Characters Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge loads down a passing bum with sacks of money.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted on May 21, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 Series) #1 (July 1992); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 series) #513 (December 1986)