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 A fascinating four-page article on the phenomenal sales history of Carl Barks oil paintings, prices they brought at different times, collectors who were involved and letters the Old Duck Man wrote about it all. Stories 1 and 2, Barks said, were by an "old hack who'd been around for years." He rewrote them both extensively. 3. The first Beagle Boys story in WDC&S in ten years! 4. A dutiful dogcatcher pursues a pragmatic pooch. 5. Donald dresses as a witch and -- riding Gyro's jet stick -- unintentionally disrupts Duckburg's Halloween pageant.
Reprints WDC&S #250-254. Hero Trading Card #43: Gyro Gearloose. "I'm an inventor
at heart," Barks confessed in 1975. "I can think of all kinds of crazy inventions," such as those he put in Gyro Gearloose's head and hands. Gyro got his own comic book in 1959.
 $12.00
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