| Issue | #422 |
| Published | September-October 1952 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director) |
| Notes | Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Title continues as "Donald Duck" #26 (November-December 1952), even though Four Color #422 is the 29th Donald Duck issue. |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie |
| Genre | funny animals; adventure |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Notes | Cover submitted February 21, 1952. |
| Reprinted | in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986) [interior]; in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #246 (October 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #5 (May 1990) [interior] |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge |
| Synopsis | Scrooge complains about the price at Donald's riding stable. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Script | Carl Barks |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Letters | Carl Barks |
| Notes | Inside front cover; Art submitted on January 3, 1952. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
| Reprinted | in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #5 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996) |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Gladstone Gander |
| Synopsis | The ducks go to British Guiana in search of the world's rarest stamp, a one-cent magenta of 1856, and find it on a letter in the possession of El Dorado, a giant golden Indian. After they retrieve the letter, the ducks learn that it is addressed to a deceased Duckburg resident who named Gladstone her only heir. |
| Genre | funny animals; adventure |
| Script | Carl Barks |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Carl Barks |
| Notes | Art submitted on January 31, 1952. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
| Reprinted | in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Donald Duck (Gladstone, 1986 series) #246 (October 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #5 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #20 (August 1995); in Donald Duck Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1978 series) #nn (1978) [reprint layout=14.5 pages, abridged?] |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie |
| Synopsis | Donald puts on sturdy clothing to bring Daisy's cat down from a telephone pole. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Script | Carl Barks |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Letters | Carl Barks |
| Notes | Insie back cover; Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
| Reprinted | in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #5 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996) |
| Characters | Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie |
| Synopsis | Donald literally paints himself into a corner. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Script | Carl Barks |
| Pencils | Carl Barks |
| Inks | Carl Barks |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Carl Barks |
| Notes | Back cover; Art submitted on January 31, 1952. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). |
| Reprinted | in Donald Duck (Gold Key, 1962 series) #135 (January 1971); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #5 (May 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #2 (November 1986) |