Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold, Four Color #9, August 1942, has an impressive new cover for the first Issue of The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures In Color (the original cover was not done by the Old -- then only 41 - Duck Man). Ours was taken from Barks art for which some re-inking was required to smooth out small-image lines we needed for larger reproduction. The cover recreates elements from the story's splash panel and page 12, distinctively colored by Gary Leach, who was later to become Gladstone's Art Director. The man who then held that position, Michael McCormick, skillfully colored all interior pages. Ah, such nostalgia! This album is remembered with great fondness by your former publisher, representing what was on the stands when he was a boy.

Some nostalgic comments and trivia: Check out the article on Morgan's Ghost, which inspired Pirate Gold! The album's title page was taken from a single panel by Carl Barks. He and Jack Hannah divided the chores on this exploratory comic, Western Publishing's experiment offering sixty four pages of Donald Duck to a public that had already enthusiastically accepted a full-length Mickey Mouse comic, Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot (Four Color #16, series #1,1941).Barks and Hannah divided the job 50-50 as follows: Carl drew pages 1, 2, 5 and 12-40, while Jack took pages 3,4,6-11 and 41-64, their logic being that if one artist were to do mostly interior scenes while the other labored over outdoor ship-and-rigging pages (Barks' choice), the reader would be less likely to notice that there were really two artists (the assignment was given because the Barks and Hannah storyboarding team had worked together on many Donald Duck animated cartoon shorts for five years). Looking at the comic book in his later years, Jack Hannah claimed he found it hard to tell his and Barks’inking apart.

Of several Pirate Gold reprints, DDA#1 is by far the best!
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