Subject Matter
Genres:
adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s):
Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; third assistant museum janitor; a gaggle of puzzled scientists; egg dealers; egg farmers; Professor Artefact McArchives; Tombsbury the First Assistant; Wormsley the Second Assistant; Ship's Captain; Ship's Doctor; Donald's llama; backgammon-playing bright-looking Peruvian; "Goofiest Guy in [the] Andes" (with bird wings); guy carrying straw; villagers selling cement square eggs; old vicuna hunter; various Plain Awfultonians; square chickens; The President (Plain Awfultonian); fry cook; two police officers in squad car
First Line:
It is morning of a day destined to live long in history!
Synopsis:
Donald, a museum janitor, discovers that some "blocks" from Inca ruins are actually square eggs. When the other members of a scientific expedition fall ill, Donald and the nephews press on alone deep into the Andes. There they find a strange race of people who speak with Southern accents and live on the square eggs.
Reprinting
In Content Item:
Donald Duck Best Comics #[nn] [1st Printing] published January 1978
as Lost in the Andes [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=12 pages, abridged?; original layout=32 pages
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
32
Notes:
Art submitted October 21, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982). Often regarded as Carl Barks' best work.