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Issue Details

Issue #199
Published October 1948
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 SHERIFF OF BULLET VALLEY, No. 199." Code number is D.D.O.S. #199-4810. Copyright 1948 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 #5.

Cover Details - "Sheriff of Bullet Valley"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animals; western
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted April 29, 1948. Painted version in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #28.
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #5 (October 1994)

1 page Donald Duck story "Sorry to be Safe"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald picks out a vacant lot where the nephews can play ball.
Genre funny animals; sports
Script Carl Barks
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 April 22, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #19 (February 1990); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #37 (June 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

32 page Donald Duck story "Sheriff of Bullet Valley"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Jim Diamond; Blacksnake McQuirt
Synopsis Donald becomes a sheriff's deputy in Bullet Valley and is sent out to bring in a gang of rustlers. The rustlers are led by Blacksnake McQuirt, a tough gunman who poses as a legitimate rancher and uses a branding ray to change brands from as far as a mile away.
Genre funny animals; western
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on March 16, 1948. Barks caricatures himself on a wanted poster on the last page of the 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) #1 (July 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #5 (May 1988); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #28 (October 1994); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #9 (September 1994)

1 page Donald Duck story "Best Laid Plans"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald pretends to be sick so that the nephews will have to cook.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Art submitted on April 22, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #10 (December 1988); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

1 page Donald Duck story "The Genuine Article"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald tests the authenticity of worm holes in an antique.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted on April 22, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #260 (December 1987); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)