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Issue: Donald Duck Best Comics #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1978
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Variant: 1st Printing
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Publisher: FlagAbbeville Press
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Indicia Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 204
ISBN: 0896590062
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $15.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 55 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Spine and title page say Walt Disney Donald Duck. Cover says Walt Disney Donald Duck Best Comics. Front matter says Walt Disney best comic series -- Donald Duck.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color
Dimensions: 9.5" x 13" (24.1 cm x 33 cm)
Paper Stock: bond
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Feature(s): Donald Duck
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Character(s): Donald Duck
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: Walt Disney Donald Duck
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Table of Contents

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Donald Duck

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): various
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Inker(s): various
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Letterer(s): typeset; various
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Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Little Red Hen; Peter Pig; Mickey Mouse; Pegleg Pete; Goofy; Morty; Ferdy; Minnie Muse; Clara Cluck; Uncle Scrooge; Florence Gill (photo); Clarence Nash (photo)
First Line: Being the author and illustrator of the ten short novels that appear in the following pages, this writer has more than a passing interest in the public's reaction to this radically new type of book.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge
First Line: It's stopped -- talk fast!
Synopsis: Sonic booms annoy Uncle Scrooge
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: Frozen Gold
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Frozen Gold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Peg-leg Pete
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was Frozen Gold [Story on Interior Page(s)]revised layout=11 pages, abridged?; original layout=24 pages
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Character(s): Donald Duck; llama
First Line: Lost in the Andes
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Lost in the Andes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #223 published April 1949
was Lost in the Andes [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=12 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages
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Character(s): Huey; Louie; Dewey
First Line: Maharaja Donald
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Maharajah Donald

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
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From Content Item: FlagBoys' and Girls' March of Comics #[4] [Non-Ad] published January 1947
was Maharajah Donald [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=12.5 pages, abridged?; original layout=28 pages
Reprint Notes: from March of Comics (Dell, 1946 series) #[nn-4] (1946) [original layout=28 pages, abridged?]
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: Luck of the North
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Luck of the North

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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Gladstone Gander
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #256 published December 1949
was Luck of the North [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=14 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: Land of the Totem Poles
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Land of the Totem Poles

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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #263 published February 1950
was Land of the Totem Poles [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=11 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: The Magic Hourglass
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The Magic Hourglass

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #291 published September 1950
was The Magic Hourglass [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=13 pages, abridged?; original layout=28 pages
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: A Christmas for Shacktown
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A Christmas for Shacktown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck; Gladstone Gander; Uncle Scrooge
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #367 published January 1952
was A Christmas for Shacktown [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=15 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: Only a Poor Man
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Only a Poor Man [Only a Poor Old Man]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Uncle Scrooge
Character(s): Beagle Boys
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #386 published March 1952
was Only a Poor Old Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=14.5 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages
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Disclose Notes: The table of contents says Only a Poor Old Man (which is the most commonly-used unofficial title). The story title page, and the first page of the story, each say Only a Poor Man.
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: The Golden Helmet
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The Golden Helmet

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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #408 published July 1952
was The Golden Helmet [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=14.5 pages, unabridged?; original layout=32 pages
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Character(s): Donald Duck
First Line: The Gilded Man
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The Gilded Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Barks
Penciller(s): Carl Barks
Inker(s): Carl Barks
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Donald Duck
Character(s): Gladstone Gander
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #422 published September 1952
was Donald Duck and The Gilded Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=14.5 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages
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Mickey's Tour of the Walt Disney Animation Department

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Writer(s): ? [as Mickey Mouse]
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Now it's time to follow me.
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Mickey's Guide to Familiar Walt Disney Comic Characters

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Writer(s): ? [as Mickey Mouse]
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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: In the beginning -- in 1930 -- my daily comic strips were created and published only in black-and-white, although the halftone screen made it possible to achieve effective and suggestive contrasts between light and shadow.
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Graphic Development 1930-1970

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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: On January 13, 1930, certain newspapers in the United States published the first comic strip of my adventures.
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Expressions and Images

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Writer(s): ? [as Mickey Mouse]
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Mickey Mouse
First Line: The power of expression, the outer display of inner emotions, is marked by the lines, furrows, and tensions of certain muscles or certain nerves in the human face.
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Walt Disney Around the World

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Goofy
First Line: The strength of the Disney language -- that is, the powerful vein of subtle humor that runs through the characters, the immediacy and warmth of their communication, their delightfully human personalities -- has been transformed into a universal language.
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Disclose Notes: Disney character names as known in English, Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Greek, Japanese, and Arabic
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Character(s): Donald Duck
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Disclose Notes: Includes back cover, and inside back cover

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