Donald Duck & Co # 49 - 1999

["Jørgen Andreas Bangor"]

Donald Duck & Co # 49 - 1999

The front cover this time shows Donald dressed as Santa Claus, and Chip & 
Dale sliding down his long, white beard on skis and sleigh.

Story number one is about the Junior Woodchucks (D 99033, 7 pages), written 
by Gorm Transgaard, and drawn by Marsal. Seven pages seems unusually short 
for a pilot story.

Donald's nephews are sent on an emergency mission to the North Pole. Santa 
Claus has gotten a virus into his computer system, and he hasn't the 
slightest idea which kid is going to get what. It shows up that a misleaden 
elf is working on instructions from a man who owns a lot of toy stores. 
The Woodchucks fix it all.

Stories like this appear from time to time, and this is not among the 
better ones.

Story number two is story number four about the round stones. This one is 
about Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck (D 99025, 10 pages). Yes, you're reading 
correctly; we have cross overs. The story is written by Pat and 
Carol McGreal, and drawn by Santanach.

The two girls meet each other, and find out they both have such stones. 
Both of them have been given them as a present from their boy friends.  
The Beagle Boys steal them, and to get them back, the girls dresses like 
criminals to get information. They walks into a bar in the harbour, where 
there are lots of criminals, and acting like some real brutes, they get 
what they want. Then they fool the Beagle Boys, and take back the stones.

Not bad, but the idea of showing Minnie and Daisy as detectives and/or 
dressed as criminals isn't quite as new as the writers seem to believe.

Story number three is a Donald Duck story (D 98177, 12 pages), written by 
Pat and Carol McGreal, and drawn by Esteban. There are no round stones in 
this one...

Donald has decided he should have a job, and by working hard, and speaking 
well for himself, he does get a few. But he loses them almost at once, 
due to cuts in the business. After a few tries then, he decides to do 
something easy: Starting a kindergarten. Yeah, easy... After some good 
action, including a climb in a dinosaur's skeleton, Donald realizes that 
what he should be doing is sleeping on the couch.

A pretty good action story, and Esteban has done a good job on the art.

Story number four is a one page mystery (D 99021) without credits.

Number five is this week's Dutch story. It's about Donald Duck (H 9292, 
5 pages), written by Evert Geradts, and drawn by Comicup Studio. Er...? 
This Mr. Studio has a funny name, I think. But he draws very well.

Donald and the nephews are out of money, and very tired of eating beans. 
The nephews have an idea, though, which they present to Scrooge. The 
latter hasn't discovered the big market in electonic games, and to get 
into it, Donald is to serve a fantastic dinner to the leading man in the 
business. This way Scrooge will earn more money, and Donald and HDL will 
get the chance of having something else than beans. Donald gets money to 
buy food, and works all day in the kitchen. Then it shows up that the 
business man is tired of great dinners, and instead wants beans. Scrooge 
sells the food Donald has prepared to a restaurant, and everyone is 
happy... er, not quite.

Quite funny.

Number six is a Goofy story (D 98322, 3 pages), written by Peter Härdfeldt, 
and drawn by David.

Goofy and Horace is going on a mountain trip with Goofy's old car. The 
trip is quite a challenge to this old thing, but Goofy does some necessary 
modifications to it every time a problem appears. The first one can't 
have been really checked by the artist, though... It's supposed to make 
the car four wheel driven, and I suppose it does, but I do think the front 
wheels and the rear wheels should rotate in the same direction.

I liked this one, in all it's simplicity. The art is in traditional Murry 
style.

Number seven is an old one-pager (KF 12-30-51)

Then comes the second part of the Kalevala story.

And finally, another old one-pager (KF 03-07-54).

With this issue was a reprint of a Christmas issue from 1953.



   Jørgen