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Issue Details

Issue #279
Published May 1990
Cover Price 1.95 USD; 2.50 CAD
Pages 68
Editing ?

Cover Details - "Maharajah Donald"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey
Genre funny animals
Pencils Don Rosa
Inks Don Rosa
Colors Don Rosa

Half page text article "Gladstone: Four Years Later"

Script Bruce Hamilton
Letters typeset

Half page text article "Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation"

Script Steven C. Calrow (business manager)
Letters typeset

28 page Donald Duck story "Maharajah Donald"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Reprinted from March of Comics (Dell, 1946 series) #[nn-4] (1946)

Half page Donald Duck; The Gladstone That Never Was cover reprint (on interior page) "Donald Duck Day by Day"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Daan Jippes
Inks Daan Jippes
Colors Gary Leach
Notes Daan Jippes' cover for a book that would have collected all of Al Taliaferro's Donald Duck daily strips from 1938, the first year of the feature. The project was abandoned when Gladstone were informed that two weeks worth of strips dealing with Donald's misadventures among a tribe of Indians would have to be deleted.
Reprinted in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1993 series) #281 (November 1993)

Half page Donald Duck; The Gladstone That Never Was cover reprint (on interior page) "ants at picnic"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Russell Schroeder
Inks Russell Schroeder
Colors Gary Leach

Half page Donald Duck; The Gladstone That Never Was cover reprint (on interior page) "bees at painting"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Russell Schroeder
Inks Russell Schroeder
Colors Gary Leach

Half page Donald Duck; The Gladstone That Never Was cover reprint (on interior page) "elephant steps on ticket"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Russell Schroeder
Inks Russell Schroeder
Colors Gary Leach

33 page Donald Duck story "Amundsen's Talisman"

Characters Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Gyro Gearloose
Genre funny animals
Script Romano Scarpa; Dwight Decker (US script and translation)
Pencils Romano Scarpa
Inks Romano Scarpa
Colors Susan Daigle
Reprinted from Topolino (Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1949 series) #135 (IT, 1956)

1 page Cross Talk promo (ad from the publisher) "Starting in April, the Walt Disney Company will begin ..."

Script Geoffrey Blum
Letters typeset

Half page Donald Duck story "The History of Dominoes"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Bob Foster
Pencils Frank Smith
Inks Frank Smith
Editing Greg Crosby
Reprinted from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1986.09.16