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Issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #5 (245)
Publication Date: February 1961
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Issues: #5 (245) of 264 Issues (310 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/29/1960
Volume: 21
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Printed in U.S.A. by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. (per indicia)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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Dimensions:  
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Binding:  
Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In16
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Skull and Cross-Duck

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Donald becomes the Jolly Roger of the boys' pirate flag.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #10 published August 1990
In Content Item: FlagAlmanacco Topolino #57 published September 1961
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]edited reprint
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #45/1961 published November 1961
as Sjørøvere [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #33 published January 2008
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sitting High

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Brigitte Van Doran; Gasmore Gravytrain; Jane Girlsfield; Snarlin Grando; Tallin De Saddle; trash-burning woman; local news photographer; Tripe Magazine photographer; celebrity-obsessed stampeding crowds
First Line: Among the many winter visitors in glamorous Palm Sands are Donald Duck and his nephews!
Synopsis: Donald tries various ways to achieve fame.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #49/1961 published December 1961
as Mot berømmelsens tinder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v39 #4 / 460 [Gold Key] published January 1979
as Sitting High [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #10 published August 1990
as Sitting High [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color #42 published June 1995
as Sitting High [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #33 published January 2008
as Em Busca da Fama [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Celebrity parody names abound: "Snarlin Grando" = method actor Marlin Brando. "Jayne Girlsfield" = full and shapely actress Jayne Mansfield (with hair tresses drawn by Barks to mitigate or deemphasize her upper figure, perhaps in consideration of the Dell Comics Code). "Prince Raindeer and Princess Lace" = Monaco monarchs Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. "Brigitte Van Doren" = an amalgam of glamorous actress Brigitte Bardot and busty actress Mamie Van Doren.

Made up joke and pun names are liberally mixed in with the celebrity parody names, giving pause to modern readers less familiar with the celebrity culture of the late-1950s and early-1960s: "Tallin De Saddle", "Cuddles Marrymore", "Rocky Stonejaw", and a famous politician named "Gasmore Gravytrain".

Among the media focused on Donald on pages 3 and 4 is "Bathé News", a sendup of Pathé News, once a supplier of newsreels to movie theatres.
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The Bone Mix-Up

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Scamp; bigger brown dog; department store customers; department store manager
First Line: Well doggone! I still can't find where I buried that bone last week!
Synopsis: Scamp and a bigger dog vie for a bone, leading to a competitive romp through a department store.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #48/1963 published November 1963
as Beinbytte [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories #531 published August 1988
as The Bone Mix-Up [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Caught Copycat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chip; Dale; flying squirrel; Brer Owl; Hank Hawk; rabbit; squirrel; mouse
First Line: Oh, boy! There goes that flying squirrel again!
Synopsis: Dale copies the behavior of anyone he sees, and so tries to become a "big thinker" like Brer Owl.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #49/1963 published December 1963
as Ape-katten Snapp [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Chip 'n' Dale #36 [Gold Key] published November 1975
as The Caught Copycat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Dude Ranch Visit

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Morty; Ferdie; Mickey Mouse; Grandma Duck; Horace Horsecollar
First Line: "I wonder how Morty and Ferdie are getting along. Maybe they are lonesome," said Mickey Mouse.
Synopsis: Playing with their cap guns, Morty and Ferdie panic the animals at Horace Horsecollar's dude ranch.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics and Stories v39 #4 / 460 [Gold Key] published January 1979
as The Dude Ranch Visit [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mickey's Strange Mission [Chapter Three]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Goofy; little bearded miner; Clementine (mule); Black Pete [Peg-leg Pete]; Slowdraw; two other members of Pete's gang; Blackstone P. Percival; kids waiting for a school bus; Feisty Fenwick (shady automotive dealer)
First Line: Mickey is asked to find Black Pete, who is unaware of a waiting family inheritance. Because Pete must reform for all time to get the money, Mickey is most anxious that he have it.
Synopsis: Mickey finally catches up with Pete and prevents him from holding up the miner for his gold, thus preserving Pete's inheritance which would be forfeit unless he reforms for at least a year - and stays reformed to continue getting the money in yearly installments. Once the situation is explained to him, Pete kinda-sorta tries his hand at honest work, but can he walk the straight-and-narrow for the next 366 days? (1960 was a leap year!)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAlmanacco Topolino #56 published August 1961
as Topolino e la strana missione [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #17/1968 published April 1968
as Svarte-Petter og Arven [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.5
Disclose Notes: Part 3 of 3.
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): H. L. Anderson (credited) (business manager)
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1960. No circulation figures appear as part of this report. Lower half of page.
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Sky High

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Boy, oh boy! Won't Daisy be surprised at my beachcomber's getup at the big costume ball tonight!
Synopsis: Huey, Dewey, and Louie find an alternative use for Donald's Hawaiian shirt and leis.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Big Blaze

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge
First Line: We've got the birthday cake for Unca Scrooge!
Synopsis: The boys help Donald set up Uncle Scrooge's birthday cake.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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