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Issue Details

Issue #328
Published May 1951
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
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 #17? Designated "D.D. 2" on the cover.

Cover Details - "Donald Duck in Old California"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals; western
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 #17?

1 page Donald Duck story "Love trouble"

Genre funny animals
Pencils Bob Moore
Inks Bob Moore
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)

28 page Donald Duck story "Donald Duck in Old California!"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis The ducks, injured in a car wreck in Southern California, are transported by means of a mysterious dream to the California of 1848. While there they stay at the home of a wealthy Spanish rancher, take part in the gold rush, and help a young vaquero win the hand of a rancher's daughter.
Genre funny animals; western
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Story submitted November 2, 1950. Comment: "The story is set in that section of Southern California which Barks himself lived at the time. However, few of the settings were taken from real life." Comment and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #254 (June 1987); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #19 (July 1995)

4 page Donald Duck story "Grandma's Visit"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Grandma Duck
Genre funny animals
Script Don Christensen
Pencils Bob Moore
Inks Bob Moore
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Donald Duck Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #4

1 page Donald Duck story "The new boat"

Genre funny animals
Pencils Bob Moore
Inks Bob Moore
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Donald Duck story "Banknote forgery"

Genre funny animals
Pencils Bob Moore
Inks Bob Moore
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)