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Issue Details

Issue #280
Published September 1993
Cover Price 1.50 USD; 1.75 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Leonard Clark [John Clark] (editor); Geoffrey Blum (associate editor); Gary Gabner (assistant editor); Gary Leach (art director)
Notes Front cover design by Bruce Hamilton and John Clark.

Cover Details - "juggles balls spelling his name"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Gary Leach
Notes Front cover design by Bruce Hamilton and John Clark.

1 page text article "The Donald Duck Strips of Al Taliaferro"

Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover + inside back cover

Half page Silly Symphony story "The Wise Little Hen"

Characters The Wise Little Hen; Donald Duck; Peter Pig
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Notes Reprints the first comic strip appearance of Donald Duck. changes:first strip only; enddate:34-12-16
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1934.09.16

10 page Donald Duck story "Salmon Derby"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Gladstone Gander
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #167 (August 1954)

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "shoots the fly"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.08.30

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "A Ticklish Rescue"

Characters Donald Duck; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.09.06

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Bullied!"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.09.13

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Following a Tip on the Market"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.09.20

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Hook, Line and Succor!"

Characters Donald Duck; Goofy
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.09.27

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Oh, Nuts!"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.10.04

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "was Game -- so was Horace!"

Characters Donald Duck; Horace Horsecollar
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.10.11

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "A Cagey Finish"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.10.18

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Pie A La Donald"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.10.25

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Ducky Housecleaning"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.11.01

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "saves ten cents"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.11.08

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "trapped between farmer and dog"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.11.15

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "A rolling duck gathers no fruit"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.11.22

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "makes his best impression(s)"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.11.29

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Fights to the Finish"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.12.06

1 page Silly Symphony featuring Donald Duck story "Billboard Artist"

Characters Donald Duck; Mayor John Filch
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Reprinted from Silly Symphony Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1936.12.13

1 page Donald Duck story "Sour Notes"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Colors Kurt Mausert
Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1184 (May 1961)

1 page The Quacker Box text article "Greetings, and welcome back!"

Script Gary Gabner
Letters typeset