Carl Barks Original Cover Artwork WDC # 277 - 1963.

This cover from Walt Disney Comics & stories # 277 was drawn by Carl Barks in April 1963 and was published in October 1963.
Worth to note this cover offers the most “densest” composition from all Barks´ 256 covers, not only from currently known 24 survived original covers: all together 12 cartoon characters, in 2/3 page size. Even more remarkable note is that the artwork is having the only survived Gladstone Gander from Barks whole comic book production! From all of those 200+ survived original pages and covers this is the only survived artwork showing Gladstone Gander.

The WDC # 277 is a rather unusual cover which are leading the reader to the main story of the comic inside : “The Duckburg Pet Parade” – also drawn by Carl Barks.

The WDC # 277 cover also contains a Mickey Mouse drawing by the great Paul Murry in the left corner of the cover.
It´s very unusual to find both Barks and Murry artwork on the same cover.
This is probably the only cover artwork survived as a two-fer with both Barks and Murry on it.
The “missing piece” in the lower right corner was a set-up for a photograph of Zorro and was supposed to be placed later on.

Picture of the original artwork and the published cover version is shown.