WALT DISNEY MASTERS VOL. 4: DONALD DUCK:

Watchful uncle Donald Duck doesn't want Huey, Dewey, and Louie taking on a daring Junior Woodchuck mission at 20 degrees below zero. But Donald's "survivalist" nephews insist they can stake out the coldest night of the year in an abandoned trailer in the wilderness -- so Unca Donald vows he's gonna teach them a lesson! When the great Donald Duck cartoonist Carl Barks laid down his pen in the 1970s, Daan Jippes and Freddy Milton took up the challenge of continuing the tradition with new Donald Duck adventures. This volume features 18 of Donald's continuing adventures in the Barks tradition. In an endnote, Freddy Milton describes how the duo took their inspiration from the original Carl Barks stories and the catastrophes Donald always got himself into, using the model of a ten-page tale with eight panels on each page. The storyline always starts with overconfident Donald making a fatal error, much in the tradition of Greek tragedy. In the title story, the Three Nephews scare each other with ghost stories in arctic conditions as Donald unwisely decides to test their survival instincts. Next is the Contest of the Century organised by the Duckburg Times in which two business people pit their skills against each other. Needless to say, Donald draws the short straw when the two contestants are offered a choice of seaborne rust buckets to pursue their business enterprises. When Donald crashes into a bridge, stopping all traffic, his rival's ferry business reaps the benefit. A quick repair reverses their fortunes but that does not prevent Donald being finally run out of town. A new story sees him in the cleaning business, with Mrs Van Snootedy demanding the restoration of her Mung vase and the town hall clock needing cleaning and restoration, with inevitable results. Other stories see him at Mount Rushmore, aboard ship causing a gold paint spill, and at home causing mayhem in the Duckburg Needlepoint Club. 20.3 x 25.4cm, 192pp, 18 cartoon stories in full colour.