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Issue Details

Issue	#8
Published	December 1954-February 1955
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes	Art submitted on October 8, 1953.

Cover Details - "Dollar figure skating"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes	Art submitted on October 8, 1953.
Reprinted	in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #111 (April 1974); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Cash on the Brain"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis	Scrooge pleads a lack of cash when a clubwoman asks for a donation.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Letters	Garé Barks
Notes	Inside front cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted	in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #2 (1967); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #272 (November 1992)

28 page Uncle Scrooge story "Message from Mysterious Island"

Characters	Beagle Boys; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; ? (cabbage professor)
Synopsis	Scrooge takes a sea voyage so that the wind can clean out the gold dust that's clogging his pores and making him feel tired, and also to answer a plea for help that turns up in a bottle on the beach. When the ducks arrive at the island from which the message was sent, they find the Beagle Boys and a mysterious ray that turns living things into stone.
Genre	funny animals; adventure
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Garé Barks
Notes	Art submitted on May 20, 1954. Three half-pages of finished or penciled art exists from this story that was apparently cut out or re-done by Barks and does not appear in the story as printed here. (Printed in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #222) Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982). Carl Barks named the story with the above title in a letter to a fan in 1962.
Reprinted	in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #111 (April 1974) [reprint title: The Mysterious Unfinished Invention]; in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984) [reprint title: [The Mysterious Stone Ray]]; in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #8 (November 1996) [reprint title: The Mysterious Stone Ray]; in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #222 (October 1987); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #355

4 page Uncle Scrooge story "A Campaign of Note"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis	Scrooge faces the necessity of spending money in campaign for treasurer of Duckburg.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Garé Barks
Notes	Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted	in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #2 (1967); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #4 (April 1988) [reprint title: [McDuck For Treasurer]]; in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #8 (November 1996)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Classy Taxi!"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis	Scrooge rents his limousine as a taxi on a rainy day.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Letters	Garé Barks
Notes	Inside back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted	in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #2 (1967); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #279 (June 1993)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Blanket Investment"

Characters	Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis	Scrooge uses his electric blanket to hatch out chicks.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Garé Barks
Notes	Back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Reprinted	in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #21 (May 1990)