Bill Peckmann &Comic Art 24 Nov 2011 07:45 am
Thanksgiving Duck à la Barks
- A note from Bill Peckmann on Tuesday, and we have a pleasant way to say “Happy Thanksgiving” today. Here are a couple of Donald Duck stories from Carl Barks. A nice way to get into the day’s adventures, by seeing what another fowl is up to.
Here’s Bill:
The cover is the Dec. 1951 issue of
Dell’s “Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories”.
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The 10 page story “The Terrible Turkey” is a Gladstone Pub. reprint.
It was originally printed in Dec. 1947.
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This Nov. 1952 cover is more Halloween than Thanksgiving
but there is that pumpkin pie!
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This Gladstone reprint “The Charitable Chore” is originally Dec. 1952.
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Many thanks to Bill Peckmann.
Happy Thanksgiving
on 24 Nov 2011 at 1:46 pm 1.Suzanne Wilson said …
What I’m grateful for is–
this wonderful posting!
Happy Thanksgiving!
on 26 Nov 2011 at 12:25 am 2.Thad said …
Fortunately, Bill provided a copy of the Dec. 1947 with its original ending. A Disney Comics reprint of the same story changed it so Donald has a “giant quail” stuffed accidentally. The editor supposedly thought it would be “unpatriotic” to have the national bird slaughtered for a laugh.
on 03 Dec 2013 at 11:43 am 3.Jeffrey L. Sheasley said …
The Disney reprint was the only version I’d ever seen — and the ending made zero sense to me. At last, I think I get the point. The eagle — symbol of the USA — WOULD be too tough to destroy, especially just a couple of years after WWII. (Though, apparently, it could be killed…)I can also see why an editor with 80s or 90s sensibilities changed the ending. IMO, though, a much better ending would have been for Donald to open the sack at the processor’s and have the eagle escape & kick the living snot out of him.