Donald applies frosting to a “550th Anniversary” cake -- anniversary? -- for the 550th issue (a continuous run since 1940), part of a wraparound cover (see our small repro) that pictures the nephews, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and others. A 52-pager, the lead Donald Duck “milkman” story is one of two Carl Barks shorts that was censored (for inappropriate violence) by Western Publishing in the mid-’40s and which remained unpublished for decades until 1987 when it appeared in the large size, hardbound Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney’s Donald Duck (by Another Rainbow, parent of Gladstone). The reprint in #550 was three years later, though the first time in color in a newsstand comic. Most material in WDC&S #550’s classic issue is composed of ’40’s-’50’s Dell reprints: CarlBuettner’s Li’l Bad Wolf, AlHubbard’s Scamp, JackBradbury’s Chip ’n’ Dale and Chapter One of a Dick Moores’ Mickey Mouse adventure, “Goofy’s Mechanical Wizard.” Lastly, but not leastly, there’s a Vicar Gyro Gearloose import. On the inside back cover, Bob Foster reveals fascinating biographical information about these old-timers. Sold Out