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Issue Details

Issue	#189
Published	June 1948
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 IN THE OLD CASTLE'S SECRET, No. 189." Code number is D.D.O.S. #189-486. Copyright 1948 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "The Old Castle's Secret"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre	funny animals; adventure
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes	Carl Barks' first front cover for any comic book. Art submitted January 16, 194. New version of cover in The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1964) #1.
Reprinted	in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #20 (April 1990)

1 page Donald Duck story "Bird Watching"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis	Donald takes the nephews birdwatching.
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, red, and white. Art submitted on January 6, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #38 (July 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

32 page Donald Duck story "The Old Castle's Secret"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge (second appearance); Diamond Dick
Synopsis	Uncle Scrooge and the ducks go to Scotland to find the treasure hidden in the walls of the old McDuck castle, and there they encounter a "ghost" that is invisible except for the shadow cast by its skeleton. The "ghost" soon steals the treasure and traps the ducks on a balcony a hundred feet above the ground, but the nephews get down safely and find a secret entrance to the castle through an old graveyard.
Genre	funny animals; adventure
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Carl Barks
Notes	Art submitted on December 3, 1947. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #20 (April 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #8 (August 1994); in Best Comics (Abbeville Press, 1980 series) #[6] (October 1980)

1 page Donald Duck story "Horseshoe Luck"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis	Donald refuses to believe that finding a horseshoe brings good luck.
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, red, and white. Art submitted January 6, 1948. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #1 (July 1984); in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #38 (July 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)

1 page Donald Duck story "Bean Taken"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Synopsis	Donald devises a system for guessing the number of beans in a jar.
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 January 6, 1948. 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 Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (Disney, 1990 series) #37 (June 1993); in Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1994 series) #25 (January 1996)