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Issue Details

Issue #104
Published May 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb?
Notes Indicia number is Vol. 9, No. 8. Art submitted on December 9, 1948. Barks later did this cover twice as oil paintings (CB OIL 13, CB OIL 32).

Cover Details - "Truant officer"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animal
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Notes Indicia number is Vol. 9, No. 8. Art submitted on December 9, 1948. Barks later did this cover twice as oil paintings (CB OIL 13, CB OIL 32).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #8 (August 1983); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #14 (February 1993); in Walt Disney's Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #1 (December 1986)

1 page Donald Duck story "Fastgrowing goldfish"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Sunday strips 46-02-03

10 page Donald Duck story "The Sunken Yacht"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Donald raises Uncle Scrooge's yacht by stuffing it with ping pong balls.
Genre funny animal
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on December 9, 1948. Danish inventor Karl Kroyer once salvaged a shipwreck in Kuwait in 1964 in record time by pumping expandable polystyrene foam balls into its hull. When he went to register his process, he was denied a patent because the process had already been described in this comic. Strange but true! (Note by Anthony Durrant, July 23, 2007) "Accounts of this incident appeared in 'Popular Science' for April 1965 and 'Chemistry' for September 1966, both of which evidently obtained their information (which differs in some details) from Danish publications. A few panels are reproduced with each article. (The dialogue in the 'Popular Science' article is not by Barks, it evidently was translated from the Danish.)" Second note and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Whitman, 1980 series) #492 (November 1981); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #8 (August 1983); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #15 (September 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #15 (March 1993); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1993 series) #300 (October 1996); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Egmont Magazines, 1987 series) #5 ([April 21] 1988) [UK, reprint title: That Sinking Feeling]

8 page Li'l Bad Wolf story "Red Riding Hood"

Genre Funny Animal
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner

8 page Bucky Bug story "The Flood"

Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Disney, 1990 series) #558 (April 1991)

Half page Mickey Mouse story "Catbell"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bill Walsh
Pencils Floyd Gottfredson
Inks Dick Moores
Reprinted From Mickey Daily Strips 45-07-17

Half page Mickey Mouse story "Goofy's photographed with wild animals"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bill Walsh
Pencils Floyd Gottfredson
Inks Dick Moores
Reprinted From Mickey Daily Strips 45-11-02

Half page Mickey Mouse story "Pluto plays dead for burglar"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Pluto
Genre Funny Animal
Script Bill Walsh
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Dick Moores
Reprinted From Mickey Daily Strips 45-10-03

Half page Mickey Mouse story "infamous ancestors"

Characters Mickey Mouse
Genre Funny Animal
Script Bill Walsh
Pencils Floyd Gottfredson
Inks Dick Moores
Reprinted From Mickey Daily Strips 45-10-01

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Horse blinders for driver"

Genre Funny Animal
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Reprinted From Mickey Sunday strips

2 page Dumbo story "Bath Day"

Genre Funny Animal
Pencils Tony Strobl

2 page Mickey Mouse text story "Easter Eggs"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Pluto; Goofy; Clarabelle Cow
Genre funny animal
Letters typeset

Half page Donald Duck story "Milk lunch"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 46-02-08

Half page Donald Duck story "Landscape gardener"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-08-09

Half page Donald Duck story "Bone-burying pup"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-01-02

Half page Donald Duck story "Manicure"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-09-05

Half page Donald Duck story "Automatic fishing worm collector"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 46-04-16

Half page Donald Duck story "Right time for dishwashing offer"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 46-05-03

Half page Donald Duck story "Black cat"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-03-01

Half page Donald Duck story "Automatic planting-hole digger"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-05-01

Half page Donald Duck story "Piano lesson or baseball?"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-09-01

Half page Donald Duck story "New birdhouse"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-08-01

Half page Donald Duck story "Dirty feet"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-10-02

Half page Donald Duck story "Ask Polly for an order"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-05-18

Half page Donald Duck story "Jeep, peep or beep"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-12-19

Half page Donald Duck story "Parachute lands on train"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks George Waiss
Reprinted From Donald Daily Strips 45-04-10

8 page Mickey Mouse story "Outwits the Phantom Blot!"

Genre Funny Animal
Script Merrill De Maris
Pencils Dick Moores
Inks Dick Moores
Notes part 4

1 page Donald Duck story "Urgent letter"

Genre Funny Animal
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Reprinted From Donald Sunday strips 46