Best of Walt Disney Comics (1972) 96173

Best of Walt Disney Comics (1972) 96173 VG 4.0

A Golden Special. Cover by Carl Buettner. "The Ghost of the Grotto," script and art by Carl Barks; While the ducks are running a kelp-gathering boat in the West Indies, they are told of the mystery of an armored man who appears every fifty years to kidnap a small boy; This time, the armored man kidnaps Dewey, and the ducks fight to free him from the armored man's stronghold in a grotto in a coral reef, beneath a rotten old galleon guarded by an enormous octopus; Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #159. "Christmas on Bear Mountain," script and art by Carl Barks; Donald's stingy old Uncle Scrooge McDuck lets the ducks use his mountain cabin for the Christmas holidays, planning to test Donald's bravery by coming to the cabin disguised as a bear; However, two real bears--a mother and her cub--turn up at the cabin soon after the ducks' arrival; Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #178. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $1.50.