"Luck of the North" has a special nostalgic memory: it was the one story both Carl and Gare Barks (his wife) lavished many comments and much praise for Susan Dalgle-Leach's exquisite color. They felt it had just the right amount of all the things the Barkses felt they wanted to see in Gladstone comic books: dynamism, subtlety, contrast, balance, mood, smoothness, power and -- most of all -- eye appeal.

Barks wrote "Luck of the North" in 1949, while evolving the character of Gladstone Gander. He found that the obnoxious dandy with the horseshoe luck was a perfect foil for probing Donald's soul. By careful pacing of his text and art, Barks was able to capture the rage that leads Donald to draw a bogus treasure map and his heel-clicking glee as he sends cousin Gladstone to the Arctic on a wild goose chase. Guilt follows as Donald pictures the gander swallowed by a polar bear.
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