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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #12 (252) (1961) · The Collector

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Dell
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940)
#12 (252)

Dell#12 (252)

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #12 (252)

Publisher: Dell
Cover date: September 1961
On sale: Jul 27, 1961
Cover price: $0.15
Pages: 36

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Stories

4 titled

1Mr. Private Eye
2Moving Day Mix-Up
3

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Grand Comics Database issue 16459

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Showing great deductive skills when it comes to solving mysteries and "who-dun-its" in books and on TV, Donald decides to become a private eye. His first case is to protect a valuable hypnotic opal from being swiped at an outdoor ceremony held to present the opal to a visiting king.

Winners Weepers

4The Great Giveaway Mystery

Credits

Writers: Carl Barks, Carl Fallberg, Bob Karp
Pencillers: Carl Barks, Al Hubbard, Pete Alvarado, Paul Murry, Al Taliaferro
Inkers: Carl Barks, Al Hubbard, Paul Murry, Al Taliaferro
Colorist: Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterers: Garé Barks, Paul Murry
Covers: Tony Strobl, John Liggera
Cover colors: Western Publishing Production Shop

Editorial and production

Editor: Chase Craig
Art director: Tom McKimson
Managing editor: Alice Nielsen Cobb
Story editor: Del Connell

Characters

Big Bad Wolf
Chief O'Hara
Daisy Duck
Dewey
Donald Duck
Goofy
Huey
King Notraks of Toolong Sarong
Li'l Bad Wolf
Louie
mayor of Duckburg
Mickey Mouse
Scamp
the Beagle Boys
three bakers
Uncle Scrooge
various Duckburg police

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