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Issue: Four Color #159
Publication Date: August 1947
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Issues: #159 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Donald Duck in The Ghost of the Grotto
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell Magazine [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/02/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK IN THE GHOST OF THE GROTTO, No. 159." Code number is D.D.O.S. #159-478. Copyright 1947 by Walt Disney Productions. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 372. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Donald Duck #2?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In19
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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The Ghost of the Grotto

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagWalt Disney's One Shot #4 published ?
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney the Best of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck #1 published November 1966
as Cover to Four Color #159 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]front cover
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of Walt Disney Comics #96173 published January 1974
as The Ghost of the Grotto [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #10 published April 2005
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: While the ducks are running a kelp-gathering boat in the West Indies, they are told of the mystery of an armored man who appears every fifty years to kidnap a small boy. This time, the armored man kidnaps Dewey, and the ducks fight to free him from the armored man's stronghold in a grotto in a coral reef, beneath a rotten old galleon guarded by an enormous octopus.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[5] published October 2013
In Issue: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck #[1] published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney the Best of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck #1 published November 1966
as The Ghost of the Grotto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of Walt Disney Comics #96173 published January 1974
as The Ghost of the Grotto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #1 published July 1984
as The Ghost of the Grotto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #9 [Direct] published November 1988
as The Ghost of the Grotto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCarl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color #7 published July 1994
as Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #10 published April 2005
as O Fantasma da Caverna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 26
Disclose Notes: Story title is slightly different than cover title. Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white. Art submitted on April 15, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
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Adventure "Down Under"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis: Donald is hypnotized into believing he is a kangaroo and buys airplane tickets to Australia for himself and the nephews. In Australia the ducks try to trap Mournful Mary, the "queen of the kangaroos," and this leads to Donald's falling into the hands of savage aborigines.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[5] published October 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #1 published July 1984
as Adventure Down Under [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] #[1986] published September 1986
as Eventyr i Australia [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #11 [Direct] published February 1989
as Adventure Down Under [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCarl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color #7 published July 1994
as Adventure Down Under [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #10 published April 2005
as Eu Fui um Canguru! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Art submitted on April 4, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).

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