Walt Disney’s Donald Duck Adventures in Color #21

"Trick or Treat" (from Donald Duck #26, 1952) has the dubious distinction of having had more pages cut from it -- censored -- than any other Carl Barks story, all of which, however, have been restored for this printing. It's an anomaly: a comedy standing out in a long line of adventure stories that Barks adapted from an animated cartoon directed by his former partner, Jack Hannah. The action, as if returning to simpler plots of the 1940s, revolves around a petty scrap in the Duck family. Donald tries to sabotage his nephews' Halloween, filling their sack with firecrackers and dousing the boys with water. In both versions a feisty witch named Hazel comes to their rescue, but Barks added nine pages involving an ogre named Smorgasbord, which his editors cut out.

Two other stories appear, "Hobblin’ Goblins," and "Dogcatcher Duck" (from DD #46), which was originally cut from eight pages to six, the two missing pages now lost.  (limited) $30.00


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