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Issue Details

Issue #62
Published January 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Carl Buettner (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK IN FROZEN GOLD, No. 62." Code number is D.D.O.S. 62-451. Copyright 1944 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "Donald Duck in Frozen Gold"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Genre funny animals; adventure
Pencils Carl Buettner
Inks Carl Buettner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted in Best of Walt Disney Comics, The (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96170 (1974); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984)

1 page Donald Duck story "Riding Outfit"

Characters Donald Duck
Synopsis Donald ends up wearing a football outfit when he tries to ride a donkey.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
Reprinted from Donald Duck (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strip from ?

24 page Donald Duck story "Frozen Gold"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Black Pete
Synopsis Donald flies penicillin to Point Marrow, Alaska, but a crook has stashed a stolen map to a gold mine in Donald's plane. When he reaches Alaska, Donald is kidnapped by two crooks and abandoned on the barrens. The nephews use a plane to rescue him.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on August 9, 1944. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Best of Walt Disney Comics, The (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96170 (1974) [-1 page]; in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) #nn (1978) [revised layout=11 pages, abridged?]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #4 (May 1988); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #3 (March 1994); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gemstone, 2003 series) #654

24 page Donald Duck story "Mystery of the Swamp"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Gneezles (intro)
Synopsis Donald and the nephews go exploring in the Everglades, where they run afoul of strange little goblins called Gneezles. Donald tries to capture a Gneezle, but instead the ducks are captured by them, and are to be fed to the alligators.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on September 23, 1944. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Best of Walt Disney Comics, The (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96170 (1974) [-8 panels]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #7 (September 1988); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #3 (March 1994)

1 page Donald Duck story "The Favorite Chair"

Characters Donald Duck; Bolivar (dog)
Synopsis Everyone wants to sit in Donald's favorite chair.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
Reprinted from Donald Duck (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strip from ?

1 page Donald Duck story "Warm in Bed"

Characters Donald Duck; Bolivar (dog)
Synopsis Donald takes the dog and cat to bed with him in order to keep warm.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Al Taliaferro
Inks Al Taliaferro
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Back cover.
Reprinted from Donald Duck (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strip from ?