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Issue Details

Issue #282
Published July 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 and the PIXILATED PARROT, No. 282." Code number is D.D.O.S. #282-507. Copyright 1950 by Walt Disney Productions, Inc. Apparently Donald Duck #12. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). This Four Color issue was originally intended to feature LASSIE, but a subsequent decision was made to give the canine heroine her own series beginning with #1 instead. The code number in LASSIE #1 is Lassie O.S. #282-506. There is also an excess of blank space in the indicia between the title "LASSIE" and "Published by Dell Publishing Co." into which the "No. 1" is dropped. That extra space was presumably to accomodate the larger Four Color issue number.

Cover Details - "Donald Duck and The Pixilated Parrot"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Cover submitted February 23, 1950.
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #44 (December 1973) [interior]; in Donald Duck (Whitman, 1980 series) #229 (July 1981); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986) [interior]; in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #5 (May 1990) [interior]; in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #22 (October 1993)

1 page Donald Duck story "Peanut Eaters"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis To quiet a night peanut vendor, Donald buys some peanuts for Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but is then kept awake as the three crack the shells to eat the peanuts.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Letters Paul Murry
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

22 page Donald Duck story Donald Duck and "The Pixilated Parrot"

Characters Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald gives Uncle Scrooge a parrot that only counts, instead of talking, and Scrooge has the parrot memorize the combination to his safe; which Scrooge has been forgetting. However the parrot first gives the combination to two burglars and then flies away to a boat bound for Latin America.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Story submitted February 23, 1950. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #44 (December 1973) [revised layout=31 pages]; in Donald Duck (Whitman, 1980 series) #229 (July 1981); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #5 (May 1990); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #22 (October 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #15 (March 1995)

26 page Donald Duck story "Pig in a Poke"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Hamlet
Synopsis Huey, Dewey, and Louis go to a farm to get an animal to show at the county fair. They're given a piglet named Hamlet, but the pig gets away and leads them (and Donald) on a cross-country chase.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Riley Thompson
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Donald Duck story "Fresh Milk and Eggs"

Characters Donald Duck
Synopsis Donald is a milkman whose customers complain about not receiving fresh milk and eggs.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Letters Paul Murry
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Donald Duck story "Tied Straws"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis After Donald takes unfair advantage of the nephews' "all you can drink" offer at their lemonade stand; the nephews tie knots in the straws so he won't be able to repeat the offense.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Back cover; pantomime story.