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Issue Details

Issue #238
Published August 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in VOODOO HOODOO, No. 238." Code number is W.D.O.S. #238-498. Copyright 1949 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "Voodoo Hoodoo"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Professor Cornelius McCobb
Genre funny animals; adventure
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted on March 17, 1949.
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #16 (July 1989)

1 page Donald Duck story "Slippery Shine"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald has trouble traversing some freshly waxed floors.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Art submitted on March 17, 1949. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

32 page Donald Duck story "Voodoo Hoodoo"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Bombie the Zombie (intro); Foola Zoola (intro); Prof. Cornelius McCobb (intro)
Synopsis A zombie gives Donald a poisoned doll that was intended for Uncle Scrooge, who looked like Donald when the doll was given to the Zombie some seventy years before. Donald--followed by the nephews and "Bombie the Zombie"--goes to Africa to persuade the witch doctor Foola Zoola to give him the antidote for the poison, which is supposed to shrink its victims to the size of a rat.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on March 3, 1949. Story contains info on Scrooge's younger days. Comment: "On the first and twenty-second pages of this story, Barks' editors substituted "done for" for "dead." However, "dead" was left unchanged on the sixth page." Comment and story synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #16 (July 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #10 (October 1994); in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet, 1948 series) #27/1996 (2. July 1996)

1 page Donald Duck story "Fractious Fun"

Characters Donald Duck; Daisy Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald suffers when Daisy loses her temper at sports.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996); in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #251 (March 1987)

1 page Donald Duck story "King-Size Cone"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald restricts the nephews to one ice cream cone each at a picnic.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted on March 17, 1949. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996); in Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald (Gladstone, 1988 series) #16 (December 1989)