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 Last issue in the WDC&S album series, #51 has many important parts: first, there are the final three efforts in Carl Barks' decade and a half of doing 10-pagers. Second, there are two stories Western Publishing censored in 1945 and 1957 that remained out of print for thirty years. Third, a Filmography lists both Barks' produced and unproduced animated cartoons. Fourth, album #51 has two Trading Cards, both a Hero and a Villain Bonus Card.
"Monkey Business," reprinted from WDC&S #297, is the last Donald Duck 10-pager. Barks did the art only for this story, in which Donald, an expert at tuning bells, solves a problem for Uncle Scrooge.
The last two Barks 10-pagers published in WDC&S were both Donald and Daisy stories that may have originally been scripted by the Old Duck Man intending for them to appear in the Daisy Duck’s Diary comic, for which he had already been doing work. "The Beauty Business," reprinted from C&S #308, depicts an angry Daisy Duck, who is upset with Donald for opening a beauty shop, even though he is a master beautician. "The Not-50-Ancient Mariner," reprinted from C&S #312, features Donald, Daisy, and a modern hipster named Gladstone Gander!
First of two early rejected Donald Duck tales highlighted in this album is "Silent Night" from 1945 (originally intended for C&S #64), a Christmas story featuring Donald singing the famous carol.. badly, of course.. for disgruntled neighbors, including Mr. Jones. Twelve years later in 1957, "The Milkman" story suffered a similar fate, but this time for being too violent.
The Carl Barks Filmography is a special feature of produced and unproduced animated films the Duck Man worked on that also has a brief explanation of each cartoon's storyline.
Hero Trading Card #51: Micro-Ducks. Tiny traders from beyond the Milky Way give Scrooge a chance to show a noble side. "Creatures from space are villainous characters usually: Barks once commented. "I felt that in space there are good people as well as bad, so in that story I did a little preaching."
Villain "Bonus" Trading Card: Mr. McSwine. The meanest in a long line of pigfaced villains, McSwlne makes Donald's milk route so painful the Duck boldly retaliates
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