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Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold
"Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" is a Disney comics story starring Donald Duck that was originally printed in ''Four Color'' #9 (the first ''Four Color'' issue titled "Donald Duck") in October 1942. The script was by Bob Karp and illustrated by Carl Barks and Jack Hannah. The story is significant for launching the first American Donald Duck adventure comic series, and for being Barks' first duck comics work. The storyline was originally developed for a Mickey Mouse feature cartoon (under the title "Morgan's Ghost") in which Mickey Mouse, Donald, and Goofy meet Yellow Beak and encounter Pete, but the cartoon was never produced. Plot In this story, Donald and his three nephews meet a parrot named Yellow Beak and they wind up searching for the lost treasure of Henry Morgan. Unfortunately for them, Black Pete wants the treasure too. Production Disney historian Jim Korkis reports the notion of taking the unmade feature and adapting the storyline for publication as a comic book occurr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan's Ghost
{{Use mdy dates, date=March 2025 "Morgan's Ghost" (also called "Three Buccaneers" and "Pieces of Eight" in production) is an unreleased cartoon film by Walt Disney Productions, dated around 1939. A Disney comics adaptation, '' Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold'', was published in Dell Comics' ''Four Color'' #9 in 1942. It would also have been the first film which had Mickey Mouse's new eyes, which would first appear in '' The Pointer'' (1939). Plot Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy are the owners of a small tavern in a New England village called Fish Haven. On a stormy night, they are visited by a parrot with a peg leg named Yellow Beak. He is hiding from Black Pete because Yellow Beak has the treasure map of the pirate Henry Morgan. Yellow Beak offers to share the treasure, if the trio can obtain a ship to get him to the island where the treasure is buried. Pete overhears all of this discussion and disguises himself as an old woman, who persuades the treasure hunters to lease ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |