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Issue Details

Issue #178
Published December 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK, No. 178". Code number is W.D.O.S. #178-4712. Copyright 1947 by Walt Disney Productions. Last Four Color to have "A Dell Magazine" emblem. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Donald Duck regular series #3?

Cover Details - "Christmas on Bear Mountain"

Characters Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre funny animals
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page Donald Duck story "Fashion in Flight"

Characters Donald Duck; Daisy Duck
Synopsis Donald buys a huge visor for his tiny car.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside front cover; black, white, and red. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

20 page Donald Duck story "Christmas on Bear Mountain"

Characters Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge (intro); Huey; Dewey; Louie; Edgerton
Synopsis Donald's stingy old Uncle Scrooge McDuck lets the ducks use his mountain cabin for the Christmas holidays, planning to test Donald's bravery by coming to the cabin disguised as a bear. However, two real bears--a mother and her cub--turn up at the cabin soon after the ducks' arrival.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on July 22, 1947. First appearance of Uncle Scrooge. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965); in Best of Walt Disney Comics, The (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96173 (1974); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #9 (February 1991); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #8 (August 1994); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #608 (February 1997)

12 page Mickey Mouse story "Santa Claus Land"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Goofy; The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Grumpy]; Santa Claus; Prancer; Dumbo; Willie the Giant
Synopsis Mickey and Goofy are working at Santa's Workshop at the North Pole. Doc and Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo are also working there. Goofy is made custodian of Santa's reindeer, where he discovers that Prancer has been stolen by Willie the Giant.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Don Gunn
Notes Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3

1 page Donald Duck story "Turn for the Worse"

Characters Donald Duck
Synopsis Donald plays a joke by giving some misleading directions.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Inside back cover; black, white, and red. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key, 1963 series) #3 (January 1965); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #13 (February 1989); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

1 page Donald Duck story "Machine Mix-Up"

Characters Donald Duck
Synopsis Donald tries out his new modern kitchen, with unhappy results.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Back cover. Art submitted on July 22, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album Special Giant (Gladstone, 1989 series) #2 (January 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)