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Issue Details

Issue #408
Published July-August 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (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). Cover submitted January 3, 1952. Redrawn version in Donald Duck and the Golden Helmet [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1978) #11352.

Cover Details - "The Golden Helmet"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Cover submitted January 3, 1952. Redrawn version in Donald Duck and the Golden Helmet [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1978) #11352.
Reprinted in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1 (1964) [backcover]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #13 (February 1989)

1 page Donald Duck story "Full-Service Windows"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Donald has trouble getting his store windows shiny enough.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside front cover; Art submitted January 3, 1952. 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 Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #12 (May 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

32 page Donald Duck story "The Golden Helmet"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Azure Blue; Lawyer Sharky
Synopsis The ducks and a museum curator race Azure Blue, a descendant of the Vikings, to the coast of Labrador to find a golden helmet, left by a Viking explorer, that will give Blue title to all of North America. Once the helmet is saved from Blue, the curator and Donald have visions of ruling the continent.
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 December 3, 1951. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1 (1964); in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) #nn (1978) [reprint layout=14.5 pages, unabridged?]; in Donald Duck and the Golden Helmet [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1978 series) #11352 (December 1978); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #13 (February 1989); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #33 (August 1995); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #20 (August 1995); in Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1980 series) #[2] (October 1980)

1 page Donald Duck story "Rigged-Up Lawn Roller"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Donald is angry because the nephews have lent his lawn roller.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside back cover. Art submitted on January 3, 1952. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Donald Duck (Gold Key, 1962 series) #160 (November 1974); 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)

1 page Donald's Nephews story "Awash in Success"

Characters Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis The nephews sell towels to the victims of an over-active park fountain.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted January 3, 1952. 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) #264 (July 1988); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #18 (September 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)