Duck Comics Revue

Welcome! This index page will allow you to easily access all of my mini-essays about duck comics--mainly by Carl Barks currently, but later to probably include Don Rosa and perhaps some others. Also occasional other miscellaneous duck-related posts. Warning: Occasional strong language and left-wing politics.

...the above is what I wrote about two years ago. These days, I'm a lot more omnivorous in what I write about. Barks still predominates, and always will, but I'll write about just about any duck comic that takes my fancy. Enjoy.

"70th Heaven"
Adlai Stevenson

"Adventure at Bomb Bird Island"

"The Advertising Giant"
"All at Sea"
"All Creatures Great and Small"
"Ancient Persia"

"Another Christmas on Bear Mountain"
"Anti-Dollarosis"
"Around the World in 80 Bucks"
"The Art of Security"
"Astro Pooch"
"The Atombrella and the Rhyming Man"
"Back to Long Ago"
"Back to School"
"Back to the Klondike"
"The Bat Bandit of Inferno Gulch"
"The Beachcombers' Picnic"
"Beach Party"

"The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin"
"The Beauty Business"
"Being Good for Goodness Sake"
"Belles on Ice"

"Best Christmas"
"The Betrothed"
"The Big Switcheroo"
"Bird-Bothered Hero"
"Birds of a Fethry"
"The Black Moon"
"The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama"
"Black Wednesday"
"The Bleep-Bleep 15"
"The Blight Before Christmas"
"The Blot's Double Mystery"
"Boat Buster"
"Bobo the Elephant"
"Bottled Battlers"

"Brain-Strain"
"Bubbleweight Champ"
"A Bucket of Scones"

"Captain Donaldo, the Black Corsair"
"Captain Hook and the Buried Treasure"

"The Captive Castaways"
"The Case of the Purloined Pearls"

"The Case of the Sticky Money"

"The Cat Box"

"Catapult the Frog"
"Cave of Ali Baba"
"Cave of the Winds"
"The Chickadee Challenge"

"A Chip 'n' Dale Christmas"

"The Chirikawa Necklace"

"Christmas Album"

Christmas Album One-Pagers

"The Christmas Cha Cha"
"Christmas Cheers"
"Christmas Down the Centuries"

"A Christmas for Shacktown"
"The Christmas Gathering"
"Christmas: Impossible"

"Christmas in Duckburg"
"Christmas Maximus"

"Christmas on Bear Mountain"

Christmas One-Pagers
"Christmas Parade"
Christmas Parade One-Pager Miscellany
"A Christmas Quackarol"
"The Christmas that Almost Wasn't"
"City of Golden Roofs"
"Close-Ups"
"The Code of Duckburg"
"Coffee, Louie or Me?"
"Collection Crisis"
"The 'Colossalest Surprise' Quiz Show"
"The Comic Book Crooks"
"The Course in Confusion"
"The Crewless Cruise"
"Crown of the Mayas"
"The Cube"
"Curious Kids"
"The Curse of Flabbergé"
Daisy Duck's Diary
"Dangerous Disguise"
"Daringly Different"
"Darkest Africa"
"Date with a Munchkin"
"A Day in a Duck's Life"
"Days at the Lazy K"
"The Dedicated Decorator"

"The Delta Dimension"
"The Diabolical Duck Avenger"
"Diner Sore"
"Dinner at Grandma's"
"Dirty Work at the Crossroads"
Don Rosa's Sexy Ducks
"Donald and the Elixir of Love"

"Donald and the Treasure of Saturnin Farandoul"
"Donald and the Wheel"
"Donald Duck and the Christmas Carol"
"Donald Duck and the Count of Monte Cristo"
"Donald Duck and the Pirates"

"Donald Duck and the Rheinegold"
"Donald Duck and the Seven Dwarfs"
"Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold"
Donald Duck Fun Annual 1981

"Donald Duck Meets Princess Oona"
"Donald Duck on Treasure Island"
"Donald Duck Tells about Kites"

"Donald Duck, Special Correspondent"

"Donald Duck's Atom Bomb"
"Donald Fracas"
"Donald in the Undersea Kingdom" (Reginella!)
"Donald Meets Baron Münchausen"
"Donaldo Furioso"
"Donald's Buzzin' Cousin"
"Donald's Gift"

"Donald's Pet Service"
"Donald's Trick-Type Trip"
"The Doom Diamond"
"The Dragon's Amulet"
"Duck in Orbit"
"The Duck Who Never Was"
"The Duckburg 100"
"The Duckburg Ice Festival"
The ducks as Dungeons & Dragons characters
The ducks on US currency
"Ducktargnan and the Three Musketeers"
Ducky Bird
"Ducky Date"
"An Easter Basketcase"
"The Easter Eggs-port"
"Editor-in-Grief"
"Emperor of Calidornia"
"The Eternal Flame of Kalhoa"
"The Eternal Knot"
"The Fabulous Fiddlesticks"

"The Fabulous Tycoon"
"Family Fun"

"The Fantastic Adventures of Marco Polo"
"The Flat-Footed Floogle"

Flintheart Glomgold
"The Flying Dutchman"
"The Flying Farm Hand"
"The Flying Horse"
"The Flying Scot"
"Forget Me Not"
"The Fountain of Strength"
"From Egg to Duck"
"The Gab-Muffer"
"A Game of One-Cupsmanship"
"The Gem Jam"

"The Giant Pearl"

"The Gift Guard"

"Gigabeagle: King of the Robot Robbers"
Gladstone Gander
The Gold Odyssey
"The Golden Christmas Tree"
"The Golden Nugget Boat"
"The Golden River"
"The Golden Throne Legend"
"Good Deeds"

"Grandma Duck, Homespun Detective"
"Grandma's Present"
"The Great Orphanage Robbery"
"The Great Paint Robbery"
"Guardians of the Lost Library"
Gyro One-Pagers
"Had a Gobbler"
"The Hada House"
"The Halloween Huckster"
"The Hammy Camel"
"The Hard Loser"

"Have Gun, Will Dance"
"Having a Panic"
"Hawaiian Hideaway"
"The Health Nut"
"His Majesty, McDuck"
"Hobblin' Goblins"
"Hoosat from Another Planet"
The Horseradish Story
"The Hunt for White December"
"In the Footsteps of Jules Verne"
"The Infinity Dime"

"Interplanetary Postman"
"Inventor of Anything"

"Island in the Sky"
"The Isle of Can't-Be-Can"
"Isle of Golden Geese"
"It's a Wonderful Christmas Story"
"Jet Witch"
"The Junior Woodchucks and the Rabbit's Foot"

"Just for Laughs"
"Kakimaw Country"
"The Kangaroo Kid"
"Kid Stuff"

"King of the Golden River"
"King Scrooge the First"
"Kitty-Go-Round"
"Knight in Shining Armor"
"Krankenstein Gyro"
"Land of the Pygmy Indians"
"The Last Balaboo"
"The Last Lord of El Dorado"
"The Last Voyage of Ringtail Van Dukke"
"The Legend of Donald of the Woods"
"The Lemming with the Locket"
"The Lentils from Babylon"
"Letter to Santa"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: Introduction
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Zero: "Of Ducks, Dimes, and Destinies"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter One: "The Last of the Clan McDuck"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Two: "The Master of the Mississippi"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Three: "The Buckaroo of the Badlands"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Three B: "The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Four: "Raider of the Copper Hill"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Five: "The New Laird of Castle McDuck"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Six: "The Terror of the Transvaal"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Six B: "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Seven: "Dreamtime Duck of the Never-Never"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Eight: "King of the Klondike"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Eight B: "The Prisoner of White Agony Creek"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Eight C: "Hearts of the Yukon"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Nine: "The Billionaire of Dismal Downs"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Ten: "The Invader of Fort Duckburg"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Ten B: "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Eleven: "The Empire-Builder from Calisota"
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Chapter Twelve: "The Richest Duck in the World"
"Lifeguard Daze"

"A Light Gift"
"The Limber W Guest Ranch"

"A Little Something Special"
"The Loony Lunar Gold Rush"
"Lost Beneath the Sea"
Ludwig von Drake
Lustiges Taschenbuch English Edition
"The Man from Oola Oola"
"The Mascot Mystery"
Master McDucato, Introduction
Master McDucato, Chapter I: "Exile"
Master McDucato, Chapter II: "The Dungeon Tower"
Master McDucato, Chapter III: "The Phoney Florins"
Master McDucato, Chapter IV: "The Pirates of Montecristo"
Master McDucato, Chapter V: "The Cave of the Winds"
Master McDucato, Chapter VI: "Lorenzo the Magnificent"
Master McDucato, Chapter VII: "Dawn of the New World"
"Matchmaker"
"Memoirs of an Invisible Santa"
"The Menehune Mystery"
"Merry Christmas"
Mickey Mouse Annual 11
"Mickey Mouse Runs His Own Newspaper"
"Mickey Mouse vs. Kat Nipp"
"Mickey's Craziest Adventures"
"Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas"

"Mickey's Inferno"
"Micro-Ducks from Outer Space"
"Mighty but Miserable"
"The Mighty Trapper"

"The Miner's Granddaughter"
"The Mines of King Solomon"
"Minnie's Christmas Tree"

"The Mischief Mystery"

"Mission to Mangomoa"

"Money Is the Root of Upheaval!"
"The Money Bird"

"The Money Ocean"

"Monsterville"
"Much Ado About Daisy"

"Mummy Fearest"
"The Mummy's Ring"

"My First Million"
"The Mysterious Crewless Ship"
"The Mysterious Crystal Ball"
"A Mysterious Melody; or, How Mickey Met Minnie"
"New Toys"
"Night of the Living Text"
"Night of the Saracen"
"Nightmare on Webfoot Walk"
"No Such Varmint"
"Northeaster on Cape Quack"
"The Not-So-Ancient Mariner"
"Oddball Odyssey"
"Old Froggie Catapult"
"One Thin Dime"
"Only a Poor Old Man"
"Oona's Shopping Maul"
"Out of the Blue"
"The Path to Perfect Happiness"
"Pawns of the Loup Garou"
"Pecking Order"
"The Phantom Blot Meets the Beagle Boys"
"The Pirate Submarine"
"The Pirates of Ashcanistran"
"Pluto the Racer"
"Pluto's Rival"
"The Poorest Duck in Duckburg"

"Postman's Puzzle"

"Presents for All"
"The Prize of Pizarro"
"The Promised Spouses"
"The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack"
"The Rabbit's Foot"

"Race for Riches"
"The Rare Coin"

"Rattled Railroader"
"Reform and Void"
"Reindeer Roundup"
"Return of the Micro-Ducks"
"Return to Bear Mountain"
"Return to Duckburg Place"
"Rip Van Donald"

"Rocket-Roasted Christmas Turkey"
"The Sacred Jewel"
"Safari from Komba Tomba"
"The Saga of Sourdough Sam"
"The Salmon Derby"
"Sandoduck and the Pearl of Labuan"
"Santa's Stormy Visit"
"Santa's Unexpected Visit"
"Scavenger Hunt"
"Scrooge McDrooge Wanderer"
"Scrooge's Second Childhood"
Scrooge's Last Adventure part one: "The End..."

Scrooge's Last Adventure part two: "The Depths..."

Scrooge's Last Adventure part three: "The Quest..."

Scrooge's Last Adventure part four: "The Beginning..."

"Sea Breeze Sailors"

"Search for the Cuspidoria"
"The Secret of Atlantis"
"The Secret of Mars"
"The Secret of Saltwater Cove"

"Secret Resolutions"
"September Scrimmage"
"The Seven Dwarfs and the Enchanted Faerie"
"The Seven Dwarfs and the Pirate"

"The Seven Dwarfs and the Witch Queen"
"Shellfish Motives"
"Show Biz"
"Silent Night"
"Sky Island"
"The Snow Princess"

"Southern Hospitality"
"Spaced-Out Christmas"

"A Spicy Tale"

"The Starstruck Duck"
"Still the Champion"
"The Stone Money Mystery"
'Stories'
"The Strange Shipwrecks"
"The Strange Tragedy of Doctor Donaldus Faustus"
"The Swamp of No Return"
"A Tale of Two Turkeys"
"The Talking Dog"
"Ten-Cent Valentine"
"Ten-Star Generals"
"That Missing Candelabra"
"They Call Me MISTER Duck!"
"The Think Box Bollix"
"This Is Your Life, Donald Duck"
"The Three Caballeros Ride Again"
"Three Good Little Ducks"
"Three Little Cupids"
"Three Un-Ducks"
"The Thrifty Spendthrift"
Tijuana Bibles *NSFW*
"To the Moon by Noon"
"The Tommy Moccasin Trail"
"Too Late for Christmas"
"Toyland"
"Trapped Lightning"

"Trail Blazer"
"Trapped in the Shadow Dimension"

"Treasure of Marco Polo"
"Trick or Treat"
"Turkey Trouble"
"Turkey with all the Schemings"

"The Twenty-Four Carat Moon"
"Tycoonraker! or From Zantaf with Lumps"
"Uncle Scrooge and Money"
"Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime"

"Uncle Scrooge Meets the Phantom Blot"
"Uncle Scrooge's Generous Deed"
Ultraheroes

"The Vat Man"

"A Very Goofy King Midas"

"The Victory Garden"

"Volcano Valley"
"The Voluntary Castaway"
"Voodoo Hoodoo"
"Wailing Whalers"
"Want to Buy an Island?"
"War and Peace"
"The Wax Museum"

"Weemite"
"Westward Whoa"

"What if...? Donald Duck Became the Mighty Thor"

"What if...? Donald Duck Became Wolverine"

"A 'What-If' Love Story of Imaginary Proportions!"

"White Christmas"
"White Christmas Worries"
"Why All the Crabby Ducks?"
"The Winter of Their Dissed Kismet"
"Wintertime Wager"
"Wispy Willie"
"Witch Hazel"
World of the Dragonlords
"You Can't Guess"
"Zero Hero"