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Four Color #291

Dell · Series began 1942 · September 1950

Dates

Cover date
September 1950
On sale
July 25, 1950
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Carl Buettner, Paul Murry, Carl Barks, Riley Thomsoninks: Carl Buettner, Paul Murry, Carl Barkscolors: Western Publishing Production Shopletters: Paul Murry, Carl Barksscript: Carl Barks

Stories

  • Beach Trouble · 1 pages

    Donald wants to take a nap at the beach, but the nephews keep bothering him.

  • The Magic Hourglass · 28 pages

    Scrooge gives his nephews an hourglass that he later discovers is the source of his great wealth. Carrying a billion dollars to buy the hourglass back, he follows the ducks to Africa, where they have gone to fill the hourglass with fresh sand from the oasis of No Issa -- the only kind of sand that will keep perfect time in the hourglass and so make its owner richer by the hour.

  • The Spirit of '76 · 20 pages

    The nephews decide to put on a play about the American Revolution. Donald takes charge and decides that the family should live like their forefathers in order to get the feel for their parts.

  • Fishing Pelican · 1 pages

    A pelican ruins Donald's fishing.

  • Late for School · 0.5 pages

    The nephews make an excuse for being late to school.

Reprinted in

Donald Duck Best Comics (1978), The Walt Disney Best Comics Series (1980), The Carl Barks Library (1983), Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (1987), Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (1994), Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (2003), The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (2011)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).