Magazine-size reprints of Carl Barks stories with excellent reproduction and color.

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Last issue in the WDC&S album series, #51 has many important parts: first, there are the final three efforts in Carl Barks' decade and a half of doing 10-pagers. Second, there are two stories Western Publishing censored in 1945 and 1957 that remained out of print for thirty years. Third, a Filmography lists both Barks' produced and unproduced animated cartoons. Fourth, album #51 has two Trading Cards, both a Hero and a Villain Bonus Card.

"Monkey Business," reprinted from WDC&S #297, is the last Donald Duck 10-pager. Barks did the art only for this story, in which Donald, an expert at tuning bells, solves a problem for Uncle Scrooge.

First of two early rejected Donald Duck tales highlighted in this album is "Silent Night" from 1945 (originally intended for C&S #64), a Christmas story featuring Donald singing the famous carol.. badly, of course.. for disgruntled neighbors, including Mr. Jones. Twelve years later in 1957, "The Milkman" story suffered a similar fate, but this time for being too violent.

The Carl Barks Filmography is a special feature of produced and unproduced animated films the Duck Man worked on that also has a brief explanation of each cartoon's storyline.

Hero Trading Card #51: Micro-Ducks.

Villain "Bonus" Trading Card: Mr. McSwine.

This came from the library of Burny Mattinson (1935-2023), an animator, director, producer, and story artist for Walt Disney Animation Studios, from 1953 until his death in 2023. Mattinson directed Mickey's Christmas Carol and The Great Mouse Detective. He was named a Disney Legend in 2008 and was the longest serving employee of The Walt Disney Company, with a career that spanned almost 70 years. His extensive library included numerous subjects and especially large collections of books on Disney, animation, and classic comic strips.

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