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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published June-August 1957
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 Art submitted August 6, 1956.

Cover Details - "Watering money tree"

Characters Uncle Scrooge
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted August 6, 1956.
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #105 (June 1973); in Uncle Scrooge Classics [Dynabrite Comics] (Whitman, 1979 series) #11355-1 (December 1979); in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #181 (December 1980); in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #208 (March 1984); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #18 (April 1997)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Net Worth"

Characters Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge hesitates at jumping from a burning building into a net.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside front cover. Art submitted on November 15, 1956. 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) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)

27 page Uncle Scrooge story "Land of the Pygmy Indians"

Characters Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Scrooge buys a huge tract of land in the Canadian wilds so that the can get away from Duckburg's crowds and smoke and noise, but finds that the "unpopulated" land he has bought is actually the home of the Peeweegahs, tiny Indians who speak in the rhythms like those of Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha." The ducks are captured by the Peeweegahs, and to prove that they mean no harm, Donald must land an enormous sturgeon.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on November 15, 1956. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #112 (June 1974); in Uncle Scrooge, His Life and Times (Celestial Arts, 1981 series) #1; in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #208 (March 1984); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #10 (December 1988); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #18 (April 1997)

1 page Mickey Mouse text story "The Superstitious Citizen"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Morty and Ferdie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset

4 page Gyro Gearloose story "The Sure-Fire Gold Finder"

Characters Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper
Synopsis Gyro invents a machine for finding gold and tests it in the desert.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Art submitted on October 11, 1956. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted in Uncle Scrooge (Whitman, 1980 series) #208 (March 1984); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 series) #520 (July 1987); in Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1993 series) #1 (January 1993); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #615; in beste verhalen van Donald Duck, De (Sanoma Uitgevers, 2001 series) #70 [herdruk]

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Relative Reaction"

Characters Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Scrooge dresses shabbily when a relative comes to ask for a loan.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Garé Barks
Notes Inside back cover. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Art submitted on May 24, 1956. 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) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)