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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published December 1995
Cover Price 9.95 USD
Pages 60
Editing Leonard John Clark
Notes Cover created using Barks images by Bruce Hamilton; ISBN 1-57460-020-6

Cover Details

Genre Funny animals
Pencils Carl Barks (see notes)
Inks Carl Barks (see notes)
Colors Gary Leach
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Cover created using Barks images by Bruce Hamilton; ISBN 1-57460-020-6

10 page Donald Duck story "Zero Hero"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis Donald works as a merchant captain.
Genre Funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Scott Rockwell
Letters Carl Barks
Notes This story is also reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #428 (May 1976) and in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #10 (August 1990).
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #275 (August 1963)

10 page Donald Duck story "Beach Boy"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Junior Woodchucks
Synopsis Donald works as a lifeguard.
Genre Funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Scott Rockwell
Letters Carl Barks
Notes This story is also reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #467 (August 1979) and in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #10 (August 1990).
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #276 (September 1963)

4 page text article "The Animation Years, Part One: Birth of a Storyman"

Synopsis Discussion of Barks' work as an animator.
Script Thomas Andrae
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #7 (March 1988)

10 page Donald Duck story "The Duckburg Pet Parade"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Gladstone Gander
Synopsis Donald enters an elephant in a pet parade.
Genre Funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Eric Vincent
Letters Carl Barks
Notes This story is also reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #446 (November 1977) and in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #10 (August 1990).
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #277 (October 1963)

10 page Donald Duck story "Have Gun, Will Dance"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Daisy Duck
Synopsis The boys get hold of Defense Department ray gun.
Genre Funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Colleen Winkler
Letters Carl Barks
Notes This story is reprinted in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #38 (July 1993) and in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #10 (August 1990).
Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #278 (November 1963)

10 page Donald Duck story "Once Upon a Carnival"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis Donald works at a carnival.
Genre Funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors Galen Carlock
Letters Carl Barks
Notes This story is also reprinted in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #267 (October 1988) and in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #10 (August 1990).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gold Key, 1962 series) #279 (December 1963)