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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published March-May 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Art submitted on July 30, 1953.

Cover Details - "Music cash register"

Characters Uncle Scrooge
Genre funny animal
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted on July 30, 1953.
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #106 (August 1973); in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #183 (February 1981); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Hospitality Week"

Characters Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge invites a sideshow freak to dinner during "hospitality week."
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside front cover. Art submitted on July 30, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #24 (March 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992); in Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck in Color (Gladstone, ? series) #1

32 page Uncle Scrooge story "Secret of Atlantis"

Characters Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Scrooge buys up all the 1916 quarters ever minted and sinks all but one deep in the Atlantic, with the aim of making that one coin the most valuable in the world. But the last quarter is flattened by a steamroller and so Scrooge must dive into the Atlantic to get another. There, the ducks find Atlantis, a sunken city populated by fish-men who breathe under water.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks; Chase Craig (story idea)
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on July 30, 1953. Mention is made of the "Junior Woodchuck's Book of Knowledge," a forerunner of the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook. First appearance of Scrooge's "worry room." Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #1 (June 1968); in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #189 (October 1981); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Uncle Scrooge Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #4 (June 1987) [reprint title: The Sunken City]; in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 Series) #2 (January 1990) [reprint title: The Sunken City]; in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures (Gladstone, 1993 series) #50 (September 1997); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #5 (September 1996); in Walt Disney's Comics in Color #4

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "McDuck takes a dive"

Characters Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck
Synopsis On a cruise ship, Scrooge watches native boys risk their lives for pennies thrown in the water.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside back cover. Art submitted on July 30, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #261 (December 1991); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #2 (January 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992); in Walt Disney's Comics in Color (Gladstone, ? series) #4

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Slippery Sipper"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis To celebrate a big business deal, Scrooge buys one soda, and five straws, for himself, Donald, and the nephews.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted on July 30, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #18 (November 1991); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #2 (January 199); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992); in Walt Disney's Comics in Color (Gladstone, ? series) #4