Barks' Christmas stories

[Mads Jensen]

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Elaine Ramshaw wrote:
> I'm trying to compile for myself a complete list of Barks' Christmas
> stories. I'll list in this message the ones I have identified, and if anyone
> is so moved, they can check to see whether I'm missing anything. Thanks! I
> don't have the complete set of WDCS 10-pagers, so I'm particularly curious
> about 232 "Under the Polar Ice" and 244 "Missile Fizzle," since those were
> December (cover date January) stories I haven't seen. Does either of those
> mention Christmas? (Incidentally, I'm aware that Rosa included 196 "Statues
> of Limitations" in his composite Barks-Christmas-in-the-50's pin-up, and it
> was a December story and does have a Shacktownesque feel to it, but I left
> it off because it doesn't say it's set at Christmas--though Donald does use
> "plastic Christmas tree frost" to make his sponge statue look snowy.) I'm
> only including stories written as well as drawn by Barks. (But I'm curious:
> do any of the JW stories mention Christmas?)

WDC 244 is not a Christmas story, I'd say. I haven't read WDC 232
(Yippie, a Barks story I haven't read :-)), so I cannot say if that's a
Christmas story. But generally, Barks did not make all that many
holiday-special stories.
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Mads Jensen

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