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Issue Details

Issue #263
Published February 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES, No. 263." Code number is W.D.O.S. #263-502. Copyright 1949 by Walt DIsney Productions, Inc. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Apparently Donald Duck #10.

Cover Details - "Land of the Totem Poles"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animals; adventure
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted October 6, 1949.
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986) [interior]; in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #278 (March 1990)

1 page Donald Duck story "Noise Nullifier"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald's newspaper reading is disrupted by the nephews' noise.
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. Submitted October 6, 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 Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986) #278 (March 1990)

24 page Donald Duck story "Land of the Totem Poles"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck
Synopsis Donald is hired as a salesman on the Kickmiquick River in Northwest Canada, and learns only when he arrives there that he is to sell steam calliopes. He switches to cosmetics, and this gets him in serious trouble with a tribe of primitive Indians who have never before seen white men.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Submitted September 29, 1949. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #278 (March 1990); in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) #nn (1978) [reprint layout=11 pages, abridged?]; 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) #13 (January 1995)

24 page Donald Duck story "Trail of the Unicorn"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Gladstone Gander
Synopsis Donald and the nephews are sent to the Himalayas to capture a unicorn for Uncle Scrooge's private zoo. Gladstone stows away on their plane, and thanks to his luck, gets all the credit--and the reward--for finding the unicorn.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks; Dana Coty (story idea)
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Submitted September 8, 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 Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #252 (April 1987); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #13 (January 1995)

1 page Donald Duck story "Matinee Madness"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald is a theater doorman during a kiddie matinee.
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. Submitted October 6, 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 Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #270 (March 1989)

1 page Donald Duck story "A Fetching Price"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald tests the ability of the nephews' dog to fetch a stick.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Back cover. 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) #253 (May 1987); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #10 (November 1988)