Issue | #147 |
Published | May 1947 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director) |
Notes | Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY"S DONALD DUCK IN VOLCANO VALLEY, No. 147." Code number is D.D.O.S. #147-475. Copyright 1947 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). This issue is apparently Donald Duck #1, if you count backwards from #26, which was the number of the first issue of the regular Donald Duck Dell series. |
Characters | Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie |
Genre | funny animals; adventure |
Pencils | Carl Buettner |
Inks | Carl Buettner |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Characters | Donald Duck |
Synopsis | Donald tries on many hats and buys a huge sombrero. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Carl Barks |
Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Art submitted December 30, 1946. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #278 (March 1990) [reprint title: Hat's Right]; in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996) |
Characters | Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie |
Synopsis | Donald accidentally receives a full-size World War II bomber instead of the model plane he ordered, and sells it to the South American country of Volcanovia. The ducks are flown to Volcanovia, where they learn that they can leave the country only by becoming national heroes. Donald's efforts to become a national hero lead to his being proclaimed a national menace instead. |
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 December 9, 1946. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #256 (August 1987); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #5 (May 1994) |
Characters | Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck |
Synopsis | Donald sends the nephews to buy six eggs, but the advertisement for the eggs lands upside-down and the kids buy him six expensive radios from the Friendly Credit Store instead. |
Genre | funny animals |
Pencils | Tom McKimson |
Inks | Tom McKimson |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Tom McKimson |
Notes | Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
Characters | Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Neighbor Jones |
Synopsis | Donald and Neighbor Jones both build barbecues and get in a fight when Jones buys up all the marshmallows in town for a party. |
Genre | funny animals |
Pencils | Jack Hannah |
Inks | Jack Hannah |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Notes | Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. |