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Issue Details

Issue #300
Published November 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Part of "Animated Cover" series.

Cover Details - "Big-Top Bedlam"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Carl Buettner ?
Inks Carl Buettner ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Donald Duck story "Firecracker Light"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Carl Buettner ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

28 page Donald Duck story "Big-Top Bedlam"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Daisy Duck
Synopsis Donald loses Daisy's heirloom brooch on the way to hock it for enough money to buy circus tickets for him and the nephews. The brooch turns up mysteriously in the hands of a quick-change artist at the circus, and Donald gets a job as a clown so that he can try to get the brooch back.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Story submitted on April 20, 1950. 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) #261 (January 1988); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #16 (April 1995)

20 page Donald Duck story "The Firebugs"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Goofy; Black Pete; Uncle Scrooge
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Carl Buettner ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Donald Duck Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #3

1 page Donald Duck story "Good Deed Nephews"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Carl Buettner ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Story title and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page activity "How to make the front cover move"

Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Back cover. Directions on making the front cover move.