Barks- 1950's. Sales figures?

[timo ronkainen]

Hi all!

Does anybody know if it is known how much WDC&S were sold in 1950's and how 
much bigger those sales figures were comparing to other Disney comic books 
(Disney-Four Colors etc.) and to non-Disney books (other Four Color 
funny-animal books, superheros etc.). I have a conception that WDC was the 
highest selling comic book at that time. Is it true?
If so, I think it was because of Carl Barks had his 10-pager in almost all 
of those WDC issues (but we all know that already :-)).
I just would like to have some hard data, if there is any.
I mean when Barks had a break in his 10-pagers, several issues had Donald 
Duck 10-pagers drawn by someone else, were these issues sold less that those 
with Barks?

Timo

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