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Klappentext This is the first in a historic series of books collecting the comic book stories of The Good Duck Artist. 240 pp. 50,000 print. Buyer's Choice Zusammenfassung After serving a stint at the Walt Disney Studios! Carl Barks began drawingthe comic-book adventures of Donald Duck in 1942. He alternated between longish!sprawling 20- or 30-page adventure yarns filled with the romance of danger!courage! and derring-do! whose exotic locales spanned the globe! and shorterstories that usually revolved around crazily ingenious domestic squabblesbetween Donald and members of the Duckburg cast. Highlights include: •The title story! "Lost in the Andes" (Barks's own favorite). Donald and thenephews embark on an expedition to Peru to find where square eggs come from onlyto meet danger in a mysterious valley whose inhabitants all speak with asouthern drawl! and where Huey! Dewey! and Louie save Unca' Donald's life bylearning how to blow square bubbles! • Two stories co-starring theunbearably lucky Gladstone! including the epic "Race to the South Seas!" asDonald and Gladstone try to win Uncle Scrooge's favor by being the first torescue him from a desert island. • Two Christmas stories! including"The Golden Christmas Tree!" one of Barks's most fantastic stories that pits himand the nephews against a witch who wants to destroy all the Christmas trees inthe world. • In other stories! Donald plays a TV quiz show contestantand ends up encased in a giant barrel of gelatin! a truant officer who matcheswits with his nephews! and a ranch hand who outwits cattle rustlers.
