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Issue Details

Issue #259
Published November 1987
Cover Price 0.95 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Byron Erickson (editor-in-chief); Leonard Clark [John Clark] (associate editor); Geoffrey Blum (associate editor); Michael McCormick (art director)

Cover Details - "Hang Gliders Be Hanged"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Daniel Branca
Reprinted from Gutenberghus [Egmont](DK)

1 page The Quacker Box letters page

Letters typeset

10 page Donald Duck story "Hang Gliders Be Hanged"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Daisy Duck; Gladstone Gander
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks; Geoffrey Blum (US script)
Pencils Victor Arrigada Rios [as Vicar]
Inks Victor Arrigada Rios [as Vicar]
Colors Susan Daigle
Letters Bill Spicer
Notes Carl Barks wrote this story for Gutenberghus in 1975 (see sequence 9).
Reprinted from Gutenberghus [Egmont](DK)

6 page Daisy Duck's Diary story "Ring Leader Roundup"

Characters Daisy Duck; Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1150 (December 1960)

Half page Donald Duck story "A Federal Offense"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey and Dewey
Genre funny animals
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Mike McCormick
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Notes This story is also reprinted in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1993 series) #285 (July 1994).
Reprinted from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1938.04.14

Half page Donald Duck story "Quick Thinking"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey
Genre funny animals
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Mike McCormick
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Notes This story is also reprinted in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1993 series) #285 (July 1994).
Reprinted from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1938.04.15

Half page Donald Duck story "The Best Laid Plans"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Bob Karp
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors Mike McCormick
Editing Floyd Gottfredson
Notes This story is also reprinted in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1993 series) #285 (July 1994).
Reprinted from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1938.04.16

10 page Donald Duck story "Swami Swindle"

Characters Donald Duck; Gladstone Gander; Daisy Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell, 1940 series) #95 (August 1948) [original title: [Gladstone Returns]]

2 page Cross Talk promo (ad from the publisher) "There's always something new ..."

Script Geoffrey Blum
Letters typeset

1 page text article "A Flight to the Finish"

Script Geoffrey Blum
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters typeset
Notes The story of Hang Gliders Be Hanged.

Half page Donald Duck story "The Right Bank"

Characters Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge
Genre funny animals
Script Bob Foster
Pencils Frank Smith
Inks Frank Smith
Editing Greg Crosby
Reprinted from Donald Duck daily (King Features Syndicate) 1982.08.27