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Issue: Walt Disney the Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge #1
Publication Date: November 1964
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 2 covers)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 30022-411. Publication date is derived from the cover code (411 = 11/1964). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (648 = 8/1964). No cover date appears on cover or in indicia.

Except for a new front cover, the comic contents and back cover illustration are all reprints. No ads in this issue. All 68 pages are comics or comics-related text material.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Old Castle's Secret

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Two famous Disney Classics
Synopsis: At the old Castle McDuck, a ghostly skeletal arm, complete with sword, menaces the ducks.
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In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Godbiter #53 published January 1984
as Det gamle slottets hemmelighet [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New cover illustrating a reprinted interior story.

Redrawn version of Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #189. http://www.comics.org/issue/6471/
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A Pair of Old Crows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; bobolink; chickadee; nuthatch; worm; two angry old ladies
First Line: I'll take you kids into the woods and teach you about nature!
Synopsis: Donald takes his nephews birdwatching and provides one description too many.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #189 published June 1948
was A Pair of Old Crows [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Carl Barks provides some very detailed and realistic illustrations of the various birds observed by Donald and the boys.

Black and white on inside front cover.
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The Old Castle's Secret

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge (second appearance); Diamond Dick
First Line: Hey, kids, our rich old uncle Scrooge McDuck wants us to drive over and see him!
Synopsis: Uncle Scrooge and the ducks go to Scotland to find the treasure hidden in the walls of the old McDuck castle, and there they encounter a "ghost" that is invisible except for the shadow cast by its skeleton. The "ghost" soon steals the treasure and traps the ducks on a balcony a hundred feet above the ground. The nephews get down safely, find a secret entrance to the castle through an old graveyard, and expose the ghost as a thief.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #189 published June 1948
was The Old Castle's Secret [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: This early version of Scrooge may not yet be "The World's Richest Duck", as he says to Donald: "The McDuck fortune is in bad shape! I must raise several million dollars immediately!"

This story profoundly influences portions of "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" by Don Rosa, particularly so in its first chapter - appearing in the United States in Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1993 Series) #285 (April 1994). https://www.comics.org/issue/54814/
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The Golden Helmet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; butterfly-seeking museum guest; lace and tatting-seeking museum guest; Azure Blue; museum curator; Lawyer Sharky; Azure Blue's ship's captain and crew; curator's helicopter pilot; embroidered lampshade-seeking museum guest
First Line: Donald is the assistant guard in the museum at Duckburg!
Synopsis: The ducks and a museum curator race Azure Blue, a descendant of the Vikings, to the coast of Labrador to find a golden helmet, left by a Viking explorer, that will give Blue title to all of North America. Once the helmet is saved from Blue, the curator, Donald, Lawyer Sharky - and even one of Donald's nephews (!) - have visions of ruling the continent.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #408 published July 1952
was The Golden Helmet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
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Horseshoe Luck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; doctor
First Line: Well, well, a horseshoe! If some jerk found that, he'd think it was a sign of good luck!
Synopsis: Donald refuses to believe that finding a horseshoe brings good luck.
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #189 published June 1948
was Horseshoe Luck [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Unca'" is lettered with an ending apostrophe. Black and white on inside back cover.
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The Golden Helmet

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
First Line: Two famous Disney Classics
Synopsis: In Labrador, Donald uncovers the fabled Golden Helmet of Viking Olaf the Blue.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFour Color #408 published July 1952
was The Golden Helmet [Illustration on Cover, Front]backcover
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The front cover image of Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #408 (July-August 1952) is reprinted on the back cover of this issue, sans logo and all original cover copy. Color on back cover.

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