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Issue Details

Issue #271
Published April 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and /or Del Connell (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)

Cover Details - "A Stone's Throw from Ghost Town; The Beanie Brain; The Priceless Dodo Bird"

Characters Donald Duck; Gyro Gearloose; Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Black Pete [Peg-leg Pete]
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #10 (August 1990)

10 page Donald Duck story "A Stone's Throw from Ghost Town"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Boaregard Swinely (Barks' pig villain)
Genre Funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #429 (June 1976); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #10 (August 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #47 (November 1995)

4 page Ludwig Von Drake story "'E' Is for Expert"

Characters Ludwig Von Drake
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks John Liggera
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

4 page Li'l Bad Wolf story "Drummed In"

Characters Li'l Bad Wolf; Big Bad Wolf; Three Little Pigs [Practical Pig; Fifer Pig; Fiddler Pig]
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Paul Murry

1 page Chip 'n' Dale text story "Goofy's Guitar"

Characters Chip 'n' Dale
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl?
Inks Tony Strobl?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #429 (June 1976)

4 page Gyro Gearloose story "The Beanie Brain"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Jack Bradbury
Inks Jack Bradbury
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Whitman, 1980 series) #487 (June 1981)

8 page Mickey Mouse story "The Priceless Dodo Bird"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Black Pete [Peg-leg Pete]; Squinch
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Paul Murry
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Whitman, 1980 series) #487 (June 1981)

1 page Donald Duck story "The experienced rider"

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

1 page Walt Disney Comics Pin-up No. 8 illustration "A Stone's Throw from Ghost Town"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre Funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Enlarged front cover Donald Duck vignette. Backgrounds removed.