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Issue Details

Issue #1073
Published January 1960
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 July 18, 1959. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "Chicken in egg"

Characters Grandma Duck; Gus Goose
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Cover art submitted on July 18, 1959. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)

1 page Grandma Duck story "Mopping Up"

Characters Grandma Duck; Gus Goose
Synopsis Grandma puts down fly paper to keep Gus from tracking up her kitchen floor.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Notes Inside front cover. Art submitted on July 28, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)

10 page Grandma Duck's Farm Friends story "Bored of Agriculture"

Characters Grandma Duck; Gus Goose
Genre funny animals
Script Vic Lockman
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks Steve Steere
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Huey, Dewey and Louie activity "Turtle Waddle Game"

Characters Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Script Christine Lyttle Smith ?
Pencils Christine Lyttle Smith ? (layout); Tony Strobl (pencils)
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

6 page Grandma Duck's Farm Friends story "Touché Toupeé"

Characters Grandma Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Farmer Bumpkin
Synopsis After Grandma's horse eats some of his hay and apples, her neighbor Si Bumpkin accuses her of stealing his eggs.
Genre funny animals
Script Vic Lockman
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on July 15, 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) #39 (February 1973); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)

1 page Grandma Duck activity "What's a Grandma ?"

Characters Grandma Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Script Christine Lyttle Smith ?
Pencils Christine Lyttle Smith ? (layout); Tony Strobl (pencils)
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters ?; typeset
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #29

6 page Grandma Duck's Farm Friends story "The Snow Chaser"

Characters Grandma Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Gyro Gearloose; Helper
Synopsis Gyro uses a "snow chaser" to vaporize snow on Grandma's farm, but through a series of misadventures, the vaporized snow builds up in storm clouds overhead.
Genre funny animals
Script Vic Lockman
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on July 28, 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) #33 (February 1972); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gemstone, 2003 series) #2 (November 2004)

1 page Grandma Duck story "Grandma's Pin Pals"

Characters Grandma Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

6 page Grandma Duck's Farm Friends story "Free Ski Spree"

Characters Grandma Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge tries winter sports at Grandma's, but has little luck at ice skating, tobogganing, or skiing.
Genre funny animals
Script Vic Lockman
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on July 15, 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) #20 (February 1970); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990)

1 page activity "Barnyard Palaver"

Genre funny animals
Script Christine Lyttle Smith ?
Pencils Christine Lyttle Smith ? (layout); Tony Strobl (pencils)
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

1 page activity "Return the Strays"

Genre funny animals
Script Christine Lyttle Smith ?
Pencils Christine Lyttle Smith ? (layout); Tony Strobl (pencils)
Letters typeset

1 page activity "Play Grandma's Duck-a-luck"

Genre funny animals
Script Christine Lyttle Smith ?
Pencils Christine Lyttle Smith ? (layout); Tony Strobl (pencils)
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset