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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "Donald Duck in Volcano Valley"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animals; adventure
Pencils Carl Buettner
Inks Carl Buettner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Donald Duck story "If the Hat Fits"

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)

30 page Donald Duck story "Volcano Valley"

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)

10 page Donald Duck story "Donald Duck and Radio Trouble"

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).

10 page Donald Duck story "Donald Duck's Big Blow-out"

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.