A four-star **** issue, with Carl Barks and Don Rosa! In the spring of 1983 publisher Bruce Hamilton interviewed Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks in Burbank, California. Hamilton asked each artist what his all-time favorite story was that he drew during his career with Disney. Thoughtfully, Carl reflected, “The one I like best now after all these years in looking back over the whole chain of them that I did, was ‘Island in the Sky’.” He added, “the story had a lot of punch to it.” Barks did approximately 500 stories from the early ’40’s through the mid ’60’s, so that’s quite a statement! One of the best reprints is the one here in US #268, marvelously colored by Susan Daigle-Leach. Also, following CB’s tale is a 10-pager by Don Rosa, “Incident at McDuck Tower,” a whimsical spoof of window-washers and what happened one day in poor Donald’s life. In subsequent letters pages readers wrote they thought this is the funniest story Rosa ever did. Hard to argue. But be warned: Gladstone’s inventory of this book is getting very low, though not quite yet “limited.”
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