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Issue Details

Issue #281
Published November 1993
Cover Price 1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Leonard Clark [John Clark] (editor); Geoffrey Blum (associate editor); Gary Gabner (assistant editor); Gary Leach (art director)
Notes Upper half = 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. Lower half = sequence 8.

Cover Details - "stands on complete Sunday strip"

Characters Donald Duck; Pluto
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Daan Jippes; Al Taliaferro
Inks Daan Jippes; Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Notes Upper half = 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. Lower half = sequence 8.
Reprinted from Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #279 (May 1990); from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.01.31

10 page Donald Duck story "Ten Star Generals"

Characters Donald Duck; Junior Woodchucks (Huey, Dewey and Louie)
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #132 (September 1951)

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "He Got It in the End!"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Linda Kachelhofer
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.12.20

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Goofy's New Bike"

Characters Donald Duck; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Linda Kachelhofer
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.12.27

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "monkeying with an apple"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Linda Kachelhofer
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.01.03

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Donald as loud-mouth baboon"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Linda Kachelhofer
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.01.10

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "phony fly on ice cream"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Tom Roberts
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.01.17

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "water trap for Goofy's car"

Characters Donald Duck; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Tom Roberts
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.01.24

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Donald lures Pluto into cat chase"

Characters Donald Duck; Pluto
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Tom Roberts
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Notes Story also printed on cover.
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.01.31

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "catches cold from rooftop avalanche"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Tom Roberts
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.02.07

1 page text article "Donald Duck from Scamp to Curmudgeon"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Letters typeset

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "shovels snow from vacant house"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Troy Sayers
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.02.14

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Winter Blunderland"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Troy Sayers
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.02.21

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "carries bundles on a sled"

Characters Donald Duck; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.02.28

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Little girl gets Donald in trouble"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.03.07

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "helps old lady with water fountain"

Characters Donald Duck; Horace Horsecollar
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.03.14

1 page Donald Duck story "The rubber bone"

Characters Donald Duck; Pluto
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.03.21

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Donald catches himself instead of squirrel"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.03.28

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Donald and squirrel stuck in pipe"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937.04.04

Half page Donald Duck story "Birthday present for Daisy"

Characters Donald Duck; Daisy Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Editing Frank Reilly
Notes This story is also reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #150 (March 1953).
Reprinted from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1950.04.17

Half page Donald Duck story "Raft as heated mattress"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Editing Frank Reilly
Notes This story is also reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #149 (February 1953).
Reprinted from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1949.12.30

1 page The Quacker Box letters page "no title"

Letters typeset