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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published September-November 1957
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 Art submitted on October 18, 1956. Barks later did this cover as an oil painting (CB OIL #96).

Cover Details - "Money snake charmer"

Characters Uncle Scrooge
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted on October 18, 1956. Barks later did this cover as an oil painting (CB OIL #96).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #155 (August 1978); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "History Tossed"

Characters Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge, like George Washington, hurls a dollar across the Potomac.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside front cover. Art submitted on February 28, 1957. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #74 (April 1968); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #1 (February 1988); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)

27 page Uncle Scrooge story "The Mines of King Solomon"

Characters Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews with him on a trip around the world to inspect his many properties, and the nephews' Junior Woodchuck animal calls get them into trouble constantly. Check on the supply of sand for glass at an Arab village on the Red Sea, the ducks find the fabulous Mines of King Solomon--but the Woodchuck animal calls draw Arab raiders on camels.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on February 15, 1957. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #108 (October 1973); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #1 (February 1988); in Walt Disney Giant (Gladstone, 1995 series) #2 (November 1995); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #19 (May 1997)

1 page Mickey Mouse text story "Birthday Busy-ness"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

4 page Gyro Gearloose story "Gyro Builds a Better House"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper
Synopsis Gyro fills an order for a soft, pillowy house, but it accidentally turns out hard.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on February 28, 1957. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #72 (December 1967); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #1 (January 1993); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #353 (May 2006)