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Issue Details

Issue #286
Published September 1994
Cover Price 2.95 USD; 4.00 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Leonard Clark [John Clark] (editor); Geoffrey Blum (associate editor); Gary Gabner (assistant editor); Gary Leach (art director)

Cover Details - "Happy Birthday, Donald!"

Characters Donald Duck; Mickey Mouse
Genre funny animals
Pencils William Van Horn
Inks William Van Horn
Colors Gary Leach

1 page text article "Will the First Donald Duck Please Stand up ?"

Characters Donald Duck
Script Bruce Hamilton
Letters typeset
Notes scene from the Silly Symphony "the Wise Little Hen"

10 page Donald Duck story "The Birthday Boy"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Script William Van Horn
Pencils William Van Horn
Inks William Van Horn
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Letters William Van Horn
Notes [frame story]

16 page Donald Duck story "The Duck Who Never Was"

Characters Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Gladstone Gander; Daisy Duck; Grandma Duck; Gus Goose; Gyro Gearloose; Beagle Boys; April, May and June; Magica De Spell; Flintheart Glomgold
Genre funny animals
Script Don Rosa
Pencils Don Rosa
Inks Don Rosa
Colors Scott Rockwell
Letters Bill Pearson
Editing Byron Erickson
Reprinted from Gutenberghus [Egmont](DK)

6 page Mickey Mouse story "The Case of the Vanishing Coats"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Pluto; Uncle Amos
Genre funny animals
Script Ted Osborne
Pencils Floyd Gottfredson
Inks Ted Thwaites
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Notes This story is also reprinted in Mickey Mouse in Color (book) (Another Rainbow, 1988 series) #1 (June 1997) and in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #26 (June 1990).
Reprinted From Mickey Mouse Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1935.02.17 - 1935.03.24

17 page Donald Duck story "The Secret of Mars"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Federico Pedrocchi; Fabio Gadducci (translation); David Gerstein (translation); Bruce Hamilton (US dialogue); John Clark (US dialogue)
Pencils Federico Pedrocchi
Inks Federico Pedrocchi; Susan Daigle-Leach (art restoration); John Clark (art restoration)
Colors Eric Vincent
Letters John Clark
Notes changes:re-inked from Italian reprint; very first Donald Duck comic book story?
Reprinted from Paperino e altre avventure #1 (1937) - #18 (1938) (IT)

2 page text article Donald's "First" Comic Book Adventure

Characters Federico Pedrocchi (caricature)
Script Bruce Hamilton
Pencils Walter Molino
Inks Walter Molino
Letters typeset

Half page Donald Duck cover reprint (on interior page) "Il mistero di Marte [The Secret of Mars]"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Federico Pedrocchi ?
Inks Federico Pedrocchi ?
Notes Reprint taken from an Italian reprint.
Reprinted from Nel Regno di Topolino #57 (IT, 1938)

10 page Donald Duck story "Victory Garden"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Susan Daigle-Leach
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Script rewritten by Carl Barks.
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #31 (April 1943)

1 page text article "He May Be Sixty, But He Keeps On Quacking"

Script Alberto Becattini
Letters typeset

1 page The Quacker Box letters page "no title"

Letters typeset