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Issue Details

Issue #203
Published December 1948
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 in THE GOLDEN CHRISTMAS TREE, No. 203." Code number is W.D.O.S. #203-4812. Copyright 1948 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). Can also be considered as Donald Duck #6.

Cover Details - "The Golden Christmas Tree"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted on July 29, 1948.
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #4 (January 1966); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #21 (February 1992) [mirrored]

1 page Donald Duck story "Jumping to Conclusions"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald returns the nephews' presents when they fail to do their chores.
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 July 22, 1948. 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) #4 (January 1966); 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)

20 page Donald Duck story "The Golden Christmas Tree"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Wicked Witch
Synopsis The nephews, disappointed in their wish for a golden Christmas tree, are lured into a trap by a witch who plans to use their tears in a magic potion that will destroy all the Christmas trees on earth.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks; ? (last page)
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted June 30, 1948. Dialogue in panels two, three, four, and five of the last page of the story was changed by Barks' editors. 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) #4 (January 1966); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #21 (February 1992); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #9 (September 1994); in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gemstone, 2003 series) #3 (November 2005)

12 page Mickey Mouse and Goofy story "Special Delivery"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy; Santa Claus
Synopsis Santa sprains his ankle when he visits Mickey's house on Christmas Eve. Mickey and Goofy deliver the presents on the few remaining stops on Santa's list, but not without a number of accidents.
Genre funny animals
Script Bill Wright
Pencils Bill Wright
Inks Bill Wright
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Bill Wright
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #4 (January 1966); in Walt Disney's Christmas Treasury (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) #nn (1978); in Mickey Mouse Comics Digest (Gladstone, 1986 series) #2 (March 1987)

1 page Donald Duck story "The True Test"

Characters Donald Duck
Synopsis Donald tests toys to see how sturdy they are.
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, red, and white. Art submitted July 22, 1948. 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) #4 (January 1966); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gladstone, 1988 series) #2 (Winter 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

1 page Donald Duck story "Ornaments on the Way"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald acquires some unusual decorations for his Christmas tree.
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, 1948. 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) #4 (January 1966); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #33 (February 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)