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

From the iconic - and first in own title - hereby presenting the lower unpublished Half Page ( page 24 ) from the Donald Duck # 26 : “Donald Duck in Trick or Treat” from 1952.
For this story Barks originally made at least 33 and a half page of artwork but it was reduced to 23 pages.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the first panel of the next page ( page 25 from published story ) bear some clear evidence of it`s connection to this unpublished half page, as Hazel the Witch jumps up and down on the orge “Smorgasbord`s” bowler hat..( See photo )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..