Issue | #1047 |
Published | November 1959 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and/or Del Connell (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director) |
Notes | Cover art submitted on April 8, 1961. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Redrawn version in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie |
Genre | funny animals |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Notes | Cover art submitted on April 8, 1961. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Redrawn version in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 |
Reprinted | in Walt Disney Showcase (Gold Key, 1970 series) #18 (October 1973); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 (December 1979) [redrawn]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990) |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Helper |
Synopsis | A full-page drawing of the exterior of Gyro's workshop, with Gyro on a bike-saucer. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Letters | Garé Barks |
Notes | Inside front cover. Art submitted on March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #13 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990) |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Bolivar |
Synopsis | Gyro invents a machine to envelope the nephews in a "globe of silence," but then a fire starts in Donald's back yard and the gab-muffler silences Donald and Gyro as well as the nephews. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Garé Barks |
Notes | Art submitted March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Walt Disney Showcase (Gold Key, 1970 series) #18 (October 1973); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 (December 1979); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993) |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Uncle Scrooge; Junior Woodchucks [Huey, Dewey and Louie] |
Synopsis | Gyro and Scrooge use Gyro's bike-saucers as they try to remove a nesting stork from an air vent leading from Scrooge's money bin, but the stork keeps coming back. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Garé Barks |
Notes | Art submitted on April 14, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #26 (December 1970); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 series) #547 (April 1990); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #341 |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Grandma Duck; Gus Goose |
Synopsis | Gyro invents a special hi-fi set to keep Grandma's cows happy, and it performs well even when it accidentally starts broadcasting piercing sound waves. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Garé Barks |
Notes | Art submitted on April 14, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Walt Disney Showcase (Gold Key, 1970 series) #18 (October 1973); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361 (December 1979); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #606 (December 1996) |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Helper; Gladstone Gander |
Synopsis | Gyro invents a machine to locate Gladstone's lost rabbit's foot, which is in the water at the bottom of a pier. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Garé Barks |
Notes | Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Art submitted on April 14, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #9 (March 1969); in Gyro Gearloose and the Disney Ducks [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11361; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6; in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Helper |
Synopsis | Gyro has no luck finding the curly-tailed woodpecker to photograph. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Letters | Garé Barks |
Notes | Inside back cover. Art submitted on March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
Reprinted | in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #11 (January 1990); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993) |
Characters | Gyro Gearloose; Helper |
Synopsis | Gyro, at a restaurant, orders a flashlight battery for his helper's dinner. |
Genre | funny animals |
Script | Carl Barks |
Pencils | Carl Barks |
Inks | Carl Barks |
Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
Letters | Garé Barks |
Notes | Back cover. Art submitted on March 18, 1959. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). The sequence was replaced by an ad in some copies. |
Reprinted | in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #11 (January 1990); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #6 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #3 (May 1993) |