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Issue Details

Issue #318
Published March 1951
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Donald Duck #16? D.D. 1 under issue number NO. 318.

Cover Details - "No Such Varmint"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Buettner ?
Inks Carl Buettner ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Donald Duck #16? D.D. 1 under issue number NO. 318.
Reprinted in Donald Duck No Such Varmint [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979) #11352-1

1 page Donald Duck story "A dance lesson"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Frank McSavage
Inks Frank McSavage
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Frank McSavage
Notes Inside front cover. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

28 page Donald Duck story "No Such Varmint"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis An aptitude test says that Donald should be a great detective, and so he is hired to investigate the mysterious sinking of one of Uncle Scrooge's gold ships. Donald's true aptitude is that of a snake charmer, though, and his playing so charms a huge sea serpent that he has to keep playing for days.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Story submitted on July 27, 1950. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #34 (April 1972) [revised layout=38 pages]; in Donald Duck No Such Varmint [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11352-1 (December 1979); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #18 (December 1989); in Carl Barks Library Of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures In Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #17 (May 1995)

20 page Donald Duck story "Stalwart Stowaways"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Frank McSavage
Inks Frank McSavage
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Frank McSavage
Notes Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Donald Duck story "Stubborn woodpecker"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Carl Buettner ?
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside back cover.

1 page Donald Duck story "Useful pogo"

Characters Donald Duck
Genre funny animals
Pencils Paul Murry
Inks Paul Murry
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Paul Murry
Notes Back cover.