DD&Co #47

[Jørgen Andreas Bangor]

Donald Duck & Co #47
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Front cover shows Donald climbing down a ladder. Bolivar is sitting on
the floor, with one of the steps in his mouth.

This issue includes a new part of the Junior Woodchuck's guidebook,
and the first part of this year's christmas calendar.

First is the usual Taliaferro strip. This one is from 1948.

The lead story (D93577, 12 pages) must be a Rota story. The art is 
wonderful! A lot of details too. One thing I like about Rota's art,
is that the cars look so real. The ducks, Scrooge, Donald and HDL, 
are driving through a desert in a huge American convertible. A look
at the size of it's fins tells me that it must have been built around 
1960. Then a police car from the seventies appear. 
    The story is about a sheriff who's giving a lot of tickets for
everything he can make up. The story is good, and the art is simply 
wonderful. Oh, there are indians here...

Next is a Super Goof story (D90297, 5 pages). Goofy's going to the 
beach. He's supposed to meet Clarabelle. A whale has stranded on the
beach, and wants to get out in the water. Now Goofy is just eating a
couple of Super Nuts (that's what they're called in Norway, although
that pun is not in the Norwegian words...) and fly the whale out to
the sea... No, actually it's much more clever than that. A gull is
disturbing Goofy so he loses the nuts. He then manages to get 
swallowed by the whale, and then gets out from the breathing hole. _Then_
he flies the whale out to his friends, but now he's changing into Goofy,
and falls down. The whales are saving him. 
I like both the story and the art.

Then a Donald one-pager (D92154). Donald has read a book about carate,
and is going to break a solid peace of wood...

The fourth story (D90121, 4 pages), not counting the strip, is a 
four-pager with Donald and Gladstone both planning to invite Daisy for
a visit to the cinema. Instead of making a contest to find out who will
be the lucky one, she goes out with both of them. DD and GG are 
unfriendly to each other in the beginning, then they work together on
getting rid of a possible third cavaler, then they get unfriendly again
when they come to the goodbye kiss. The art is good, and the plot is 
new, so I can't complain about that.

Then a Gyro Gearloose story (D92494, 6 pages). Gyro has invented a 
flying saucer with a big magnet. He uses it to help out cars that are
stuck in the traffic. The Beagle Boys capture the saucer. You can 
guess what kind of vehicles they are going to "help out".

And at last, well, almost, a new continuation story (D93063). Mickey 
and Goofy are going on a vacation trip to a hotel close to a river with 
a lot of salmon. When they get there, the salmon has disappeard (that's
familiar). At the same time a suspicious guest appears. MM and Goofy
start to investigate the mystery, of course.
I don't have the copy with that lousy farm story, which appeared a 
couple of weeks ago, here, but this could have been drawn by the same 
artist. It's not as bad as that farm story, though. It's _certainly_ not 
Ferioli.

The last "story" is a Taliaferro one-pager with Donald (KF 1-29-50).  

I would say this is a good issue.



   Jorgen
             "This place is probably scientifically interesting,
              but I want to get out!"