Issue Details

Issue	#53
Published	February 1945
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Alice Nielson Cobb?
Notes	Indicia number is Vol. 5, No. 5.

Cover Details - "rides Pluto on rabbit hunt"

Characters	Donald Duck; Pluto; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre	funny animal
Pencils	Walt Kelly
Inks	Walt Kelly
Notes	Indicia number is Vol. 5, No. 5.
Reprinted	In Carl Barks Library (HC) 7-174*

1 page Donald Duck story "duel over narrow roadway"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Sunday strips 44-01-30

10 page Donald Duck story "The Tramp Steamer"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis	Donald buys a tramp steamer and starts for Acapulco with a cargo of bubble-bath soap.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Carl Barks
Notes	Art submitted on October 6, 1944. Art reprinted minus word balloons in "Donald Duck and the Green Serpent," Better Little Book No. 845, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted	in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #7 (March 1988); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #5 (May 1992); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #27; in Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Friends (Gemstone, 2003 Series) #345

8 page Bucky Bug story "The Firebug"

Script	Carl Buettner
Pencils	Carl Buettner
Inks	Carl Buettner

1 page Mickey Mouse story Goofy "tests" fire department

Pencils	Manuel Gonzales
Inks	Manuel Gonzales
Reprinted	From Mickey Sunday strips 41

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Goofy's booby-trap machine"

Pencils	Manuel Gonzales
Inks	Manuel Gonzales
Reprinted	From Mickey Sunday strips 41

8 page Li'l Bad Wolf story "Trombone playing"

Script	Carl Buettner
Pencils	Carl Buettner
Inks	Carl Buettner
Reprinted	in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Disney, 1990 series) #550 (August 1990)

1 page Donald Duck story "The Clock Watcher"

Pencils	Dick Moores
Inks	Dick Moores

1 page Mickey Mouse story "Saboteurs at Bleak Beach"

Pencils	Manuel Gonzales
Inks	Manuel Gonzales
Reprinted	From Mickey Sunday strips 41

Half page Mickey Mouse story "Morty's radar set"

Script	Bill Walsh
Pencils	Floyd Gottfredson
Inks	Dick Moores
Reprinted	From Mickey Daily Strips 44-03-04

Half page Mickey Mouse story "Prisoners of war"

Script	Bill Walsh
Pencils	Floyd Gottfredson
Inks	Dick Moores
Reprinted	From Mickey Daily Strips 44-02-21

2 page Goofy text story "Goofy's Valentine"

Letters

Typeset

Half page Donald Duck story "sleeping in bathtub"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 43

Half page Donald Duck story "Hot water bottles for cow"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 43

Half page Donald Duck story "Snow-shoveling race"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 43

Half page Donald Duck story "advertises coats in the snow"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 43

Half page Donald Duck story "hired to mop bank floor"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 44

Half page Donald Duck story "installs alarm in hall clock"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 44

Half page Donald Duck story "brought chickens to feed"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 44

Half page Donald Duck story "paints roadkill icons on car"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 44

Half page Huey, Dewey and Louie story "It takes two to quarrel"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 43

Half page Huey, Dewey and Louie story "The unwatched pot doesn't boil"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 43

Half page Donald Duck story "Prisoner of neighbor kid"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 44

Half page Donald Duck story "Paratrooper as chef"

Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	Al Taliaferro
Reprinted	From Donald Daily Strips 44

1 page activity "Winners in Sept. 1944 Contest"

Letters

Typeset

8 page Mickey Mouse story "The 'Lectro Box"

Characters	Pluto; Goofy; One of Mickey's nephews, usually Morty; Minnie Mouse; Clarabelle Cow
Script	Bill Walsh
Pencils	Floyd Gottfredson
Inks	Dick Moores
Notes	part 3
Reprinted	From Mickey Daily strips 1943-10-25 to 1944-02-05, In WD Comics 568+

1 page Donald Duck story "sells and repurchases his car"

Characters	Donald Duck
Script	Bob Karp
Pencils	Al Taliaferro
Inks	George Waiss
Reprinted	From Donald Sunday strips 44-04-16