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Issue Details

Issue #1047
Published November 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and/or Del Connell (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Cover art submitted on April 8, 1961. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Redrawn version in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361

Cover Details - "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Cover art submitted on April 8, 1961. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Redrawn version in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361
Reprinted in Walt Disney Showcase (Gold Key, 1970 series) #18 (October 1973); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 (December 1979) [redrawn]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)

1 page Gyro Gearloose illustration "Inventor of Anything [Gyro's Workshop]"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Helper
Synopsis A full-page drawing of the exterior of Gyro's workshop, with Gyro on a bike-saucer.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside front cover. Art submitted on March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #13 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)

10 page Gyro Gearloose story "The Gab-Muffer"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Bolivar
Synopsis Gyro invents a machine to envelope the nephews in a "globe of silence," but then a fire starts in Donald's back yard and the gab-muffler silences Donald and Gyro as well as the nephews.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney Showcase (Gold Key, 1970 series) #18 (October 1973); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 (December 1979); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993)

8 page Gyro Gearloose story "The Stubborn Stork"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Uncle Scrooge; Junior Woodchucks [Huey, Dewey and Louie]
Synopsis Gyro and Scrooge use Gyro's bike-saucers as they try to remove a nesting stork from an air vent leading from Scrooge's money bin, but the stork keeps coming back.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on April 14, 1959. 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) #26 (December 1970); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 series) #547 (April 1990); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #341

7 page Gyro Gearloose story "Milktime Melodies"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Grandma Duck; Gus Goose
Synopsis Gyro invents a special hi-fi set to keep Grandma's cows happy, and it performs well even when it accidentally starts broadcasting piercing sound waves.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on April 14, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney Showcase (Gold Key, 1970 series) #18 (October 1973); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 (December 1979); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #606 (December 1996)

7 page Gyro Gearloose story "The Lost Rabbit Foot"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Gladstone Gander
Synopsis Gyro invents a machine to locate Gladstone's lost rabbit's foot, which is in the water at the bottom of a pier.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Art submitted on April 14, 1959. 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) #9 (March 1969); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6; in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3

1 page Gyro Gearloose story "The Bird Camera"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Helper
Synopsis Gyro has no luck finding the curly-tailed woodpecker to photograph.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside back cover. Art submitted on March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #11 (January 1990); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993)

1 page Gyro Gearloose story "The Odd Order"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Helper
Synopsis Gyro, at a restaurant, orders a flashlight battery for his helper's dinner.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted on March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). The sequence was replaced by an ad in some copies.
Reprinted in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #11 (January 1990); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993)