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Issue Details

Issue #223
Published April 1949
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 "LOST IN THE ANDES", No. 223." Code number is W.D.O.S. #223-494. Copyright 1949 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 #7

Cover Details - "Lost in the Andes"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animals; adventure
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Art submitted on November 24, 1948.
Reprinted in Best of Donald Duck, The (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1 (1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #3 (February 1988)

1 page Donald Duck story "Too Fit to Fit"

Characters Donald Duck; Daisy Duck
Synopsis Donald exercises so that he can fit into his tuxedo again.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Art submitted on November 24, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Best of Donald Duck, The (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1 (1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #38 (July 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

32 page Donald Duck story "Lost in the Andes"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald, a museum janitor, discovers that some "blocks" from Inca ruins are actually square eggs. When the other members of a scientific expedition fall ill, Donald and the nephews press on alone deep into the Andes. There they find a strange race of people who speak with Southern accents and live on the square eggs.
Genre funny animals; adventure
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted October 21, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Best of Donald Duck, The (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1 (1965); in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) #nn (1978) [reprint layout=12 pages, abridged?]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #3 (February 1988); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #10 (October 1994); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Friends (Gemstone, 2003 series) #325

1 page Donald Duck story "Tunnel Vision"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald ends the nephews' fighting over the television.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Art submitted on November 24, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Best of Donald Duck, The (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1 (1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #38 (July 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

1 page Donald Duck story "Sleepy Sitters"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis Donald helps the nephews to baby-sit by singing a lullaby.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted on November 24, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Best of Donald Duck, The (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1 (1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #35 (April 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)