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Carl Barks. Donald Duck in ”Trick or Treat”. March, 31 - 1952

Artist: Carl Barks (All)

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Carl Barks. Donald Duck in ”Trick or Treat”. March, 31 - 1952 Comic Art

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Title:	Carl Barks. Donald Duck in ”Trick or Treat”. March, 31 - 1952
Artist:	Carl Barks (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS - PRIVATE COLLECTION
Views:	516
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	10/9/2022
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From the iconic - and first in own title - hereby presenting the lower unpublished Half Page ( page 24 ) from the Donald Duck # 26 : “Donald Duck in Trick or Treat” from 1952.
For this story Barks originally made at least 33 and a half page of artwork but it was reduced to 23 pages.
A Donald Duck cartoon of the same title was under process, and Barks had been asked to do a story adaption of it.
The plot of the half page : After having some very intense troubles with the orge “Smorgasbord” at last Donald seems to get rid of “Smorgie the bad” forever.. With an explosive imitative “BA- WOOM” word in the first panel Barks very dramatically made the ogre disappear from the storyline.
Hazel the Witch and the 3 Nephews thereafter looks very puzzled - and so it seems that Donald finally gets the upper hand on that last panel by spreading out a vicious and evil laughter..: HAA ! HAA ! HAA-HAA ! HAAA !
Though the readers never saw that happen in the published story back in 1952 this was Barks own take on the story. Sadly the editors on DELL was In another opinion and cut-out this half page with some other 10 pages
Many years later the full story has of course been published.
Still we have only seen very few examples of original cut-out art - so probably not all of the 10 pages has survived to this day. As a fact the published story on 23 pages has all been destroyed.
Notice that the first panel of the next page ( page 25 from published story ) bear some clear evidence of it`s connection to this unpublished half page, as Hazel the Witch jumps up and down on the orge “Smorgasbord`s” bowler hat..( See photo )
At the time back in 1952 readers may have thought that the black hat was only a shadow - but by looking more closely it`s obvious it`s the bowler hat of the ogre..

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	Søren M Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	July 2008
Last Login:	September 2025
Website:	http://www.carlbarkscomicbookart.dk/
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Monty B
Member Since 2006

Posted on 10/9/2022

Congrats on acquiring yet another beautiful Barks original!!! Really a fantastic page Søren...

Dave Stuart
Member Since 2008

Posted on 10/9/2022

Congrats, a beautiful Barks piece.

Matti Eronen
Member Since 2017

Posted on 10/11/2022

Awesome page! Congratulations! :-) Did the earlier owner having it since 1991? ;-) That's all tracking I am having... And have you already dug out the World Premier of this artwork? i.e. when it was first time published/printed ;-)

Søren M
Member Since 2008

Posted on 10/12/2022

Matti Eronen wrote:

Matti - I believe the owner before me had it for some 30 years - yes. I am not sure when it was first published as total complete story though. Maybe in the CBL US first edition in 1983 - 1990 period ? Best, Soren

Antonio Menici
Member Since 2006

Posted on 11/23/2022

Congrats for this spectacular piece of artwork !!!

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