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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published November 1949
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 132
Editing Eleanor Packer (Managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes wraparound cover. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "Nephews as reindeers"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Carl Buettner
Notes wraparound cover. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gemstone, 2003 series) #1

24 page Donald Duck story "Letter to Santa"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Santa Claus
Synopsis Donald forgets to mail the nephews' letter to Santa Claus and discovers on Christmas Eve that they want a steamshovel. Donald gets the money for the steamshovel from Uncle Scrooge but Scrooge, upset because Santa and not he will get the credit for the gift, buys a steamshovel of his own to give to the nephews. He and Donald meet and fight in their steamshovels, wrecking them. Then they disguise Donald as Santa so that he can tell the nephews he's out of steamshovels.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on June 1, 1949. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #5 (February 1967); in Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics, A (Smithsonian Institution Press; Harry N. Abrams, 1981 series) #nn (1981); in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gladstone, 1988 series) #2 (Winter 1989); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #11 (November 1994; in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gemstone, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003)

8 page The Seven Dwarfs story "Dopey's birthday"

Characters Jimminy Cricket; The Seven Dwarfs; Wicked Witch
Pencils Roger Armstrong
Inks Roger Armstrong
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #5

8 page Bambi story "Joking with Goofy"

Characters Goofy; Thumper; Bambi; Flower
Genre funny animals
Pencils Jim Pabian
Inks Jim Pabian
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #5

4 page text story "So Dear To My Heart"

Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh

8 page story "The Flying Mouse"

Genre funny animals
Pencils Jim Pabian
Inks Jim Pabian
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #5

2 page Pluto story "Chasing the postman"

Characters Pluto
Genre funny animals
Pencils Manuel Gonzales
Inks Manuel Gonzales
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

16 page Mickey Mouse story "Bargain Balloon"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright

8 page Cinderella story "Cinderella"

Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

4 page text story "The Country Cousin"

Genre funny animals
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

8 page Dumbo story "Dumbo and Pablo Penguin"

Characters Pablo; Dumbo
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Pabian ?
Inks Tony Pabian ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #5; Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #38

8 page story "Cookieland"

Pencils Roger Armstrong
Inks Roger Armstrong
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

8 page Li'l Bad Wolf story "The Scout Club"

Characters Li'l Bad Wolf; Big Bad Wolf; Three Little Pigs (Practical Pig; Fifer Pig; Fiddler Pig)
Genre funny animals
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #5

1 page Donald Duck story "Read paper in snow"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Donald, his reading disrupted by the nephews, finally retreats outside into the snow.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on August 4, 1949. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #5 (February 1967); in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gladstone, 1988 series) #2 (Winter 1989); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #11 (November 1994); in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gemstone, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003)