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Issue Details

Issue #29
Published September 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Carl Buettner (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK AND THE MUMMY'S RING, No. 29." Code number is D.D.O.S. #29 439. Copyright 1943 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals; adventure
Pencils Carl Buettner
Inks Carl Buettner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #44

1 page Donald Duck foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "3 Big Stories"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey, and Louie
Synopsis Donald puts up wall posters with the story titles on them.
Pencils Carl Buettner
Inks Carl Buettner
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

28 page Donald Duck story "Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Black Pete
Synopsis Huey is trapped inside a mummy case and taken to Egypt by emissaries of the Bey El Dagga, who is restoring life in his province to the way it was in ancient times. Donald and the other two nephews follow Huey by getting jobs on the ship carrying the mummy case, and later sailing a felucca up the Nile to the Bey's domain.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on May 10, 1943. "Chris Couch, who worked with Barks as a story man at the Disney studio, is caricatured on a wanted poster on the seventh page of this story." Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1; in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #44 (December 1973); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #14 (August 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #2 (February 1994)

10 page Donald Duck story "The Hard Loser"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Donald and the nephews are rivals in the "Screwball Derby," a cross-country horse race in which any dirty trick may be played on the other contestants.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on May 29, 1943. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). Barks reworked this story for Chuckwagon Derby in Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #34.
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Donald Duck Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #1 (November 1986); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Disney, 1990 series) #551 (September 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #2 (February 1994)

26 page Donald Duck story "Too Many Pets"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Jingo
Synopsis An organ grinder gives the nephews a monkey named Jingo, who plays hob with Donald's house until Donald sells him to a stranger. The stranger proves to be a foreign spy who tries to use Jingo to steal some secret plans.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks; Merrill de Maris (plot)
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Barks was given a half-outlined plot by de Maris and polished the gags and lengthened the story. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). (Barrier's synopsis says Donald gives the monkey to a stranger, but he actually sells him for 50 cents.)
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Donald Duck Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #1 (November 1986); in Disney Comics Album (Disney, 1990 series) #7 (November 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #2 (February 1994); in Walt Disney's Spring Fever (Gemstone, 2007 series) #2 (April 2008)

1 page Donald Duck illustration "Donald Gets His Picture Taken"

Characters Donald Duck
Synopsis While Donald is having his portrait taken, the cameraman holds a miniature version of Donald to look at.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Buettner
Inks Carl Buettner
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white.

1 page Donald Duck foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Closing the Book"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey, and Louie
Synopsis Donald is on a ladder closing the book.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Buettner
Inks Carl Buettner
Letters Carl Buettner ?
Notes Back cover. Reference is made by a nephew to a plot point in Sequence 2.