No one short of the legendary Hal Foster could have drawn a stormy sea adventure with the impact of Carl Barks’ dramatic “The Flying Dutchman.” Following, that, Disney chose to publish Barks’ original back-up story, a 5 3/4-pager set in Egypt (both were from US #25, March 1959). Though the latter story was filmed directly from Another Rainbow’s hard cover Carl Barks Library, Disney was evidently bothered that in 1959 Dell either dropped (or instructed Barks to drop) two panels from the last page for a circulation statement. In the CBL Another Rainbow simply substituted a text filler, but Disney decided to reformat the whole story to make it come out even at the end. This is bothersome to the purist because the flow of Barks’ tales, which the Old Duck Man always worked hard so that each page would have a miniature cliff-hanger at the end so the reader would be compelled to quickly move to the next page. These subtle page-ending impacts are now missing because of Disney monkeying around with the story. It’s interesting to study both versions, to judge for yourself.
A provocative letter from David Gerstein (a familiar name to many fans) took up the entire Mail Bin page, including Bob Foster’s answer. Worth reading
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