| Issue | #178 |
| Published | December 1947 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director) |
| Notes | Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK, No. 178". Code number is W.D.O.S. #178-4712. Copyright 1947 by Walt Disney Productions. Last Four Color to have "A Dell Magazine" emblem. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Donald Duck regular series #3? |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Dan Gormley |
| Inks | Dan Gormley |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Daisy Duck |
| Synopsis | Donald buys a huge visor for his tiny car. |
| 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, white, and red. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
| Reprinted | in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996) |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge (intro); Huey; Dewey; Louie; Edgerton |
| Synopsis | Donald's stingy old Uncle Scrooge McDuck lets the ducks use his mountain cabin for the Christmas holidays, planning to test Donald's bravery by coming to the cabin disguised as a bear. However, two real bears--a mother and her cub--turn up at the cabin soon after the ducks' arrival. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Script | Carl Barks |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Carl Barks |
| Notes | Art submitted on July 22, 1947. First appearance of Uncle Scrooge. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
| Reprinted | in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965); in Best of Walt Disney Comics, The (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96173 (1974); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #9 (February 1991); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #8 (August 1994); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #608 (February 1997) |
| Characters | Mickey Mouse; Goofy; The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Grumpy]; Santa Claus; Prancer; Dumbo; Willie the Giant |
| Synopsis | Mickey and Goofy are working at Santa's Workshop at the North Pole. Doc and Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo are also working there. Goofy is made custodian of Santa's reindeer, where he discovers that Prancer has been stolen by Willie the Giant. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Don Gunn |
| Inks | Don Gunn |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Don Gunn |
| Notes | Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| Reprinted | in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3 |
| Characters | Donald Duck |
| Synopsis | Donald plays a joke by giving some misleading directions. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Script | Carl Barks |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Carl Barks |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black, white, and red. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
| Reprinted | in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #13 (February 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996) |
| Characters | Donald Duck |
| Synopsis | Donald tries out his new modern kitchen, with unhappy results. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Script | Carl Barks |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Carl Barks |
| Notes | Back cover. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. 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 Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #2 (January 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996) |