Scandinavian Story Indeks


   Donald Duck: The Lost Charts of Columbus

Story code: D 94144

Publisher: Egmont

First Published: October 1995

Pages: 24

Versions: Both single-part and serialized versions (the latter has never been published anywhere).

Plot and story: Don Rosa

Art and ink: Don Rosa

Story-type: Sequel to the old Barks-classic "The Golden Helmet".

Characters: Donald Duck | HD&L Duck (as JW Generals) | The Junior Woodchucks | Gladstone Gander | Azure Blue | Lawyer Sharky

Locations: The Junior Woodchucks Museum (Duckburg) | The coast of Labrador (Canada) | Nova Scotia (Canada) | The isle of Anticosti (Canada) | Teotihuacan (Mexico) | Alexandria (Egypt) | Cape Cod (Canada)

D.U.C.K.-dedication: On the wall to the left side, behind the Junior Woodchuck General, is a picture with a sign which says "D.U.C.K.".




Norway
 Columbuskartene
  • DD&Co 42/1995 extra #10 (c)
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 22 (March 2008)
  • DD&Co 30/2010 (c)
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    Denmark
    		 Columbus-kortene
  • AA&Co 42/1995 extra (c)
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 21 (March 2008)
  • Anders And Ekstra 6/2010 (c)
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    Sweden
    		 Columbus hemliga kartor
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 22 (March 2008)
  • KA&Co 30/2010 (c)
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    Comments:

         		Gladstone Gander wins a trip to the coast of Labrador, Canada and takes Donald with him. There they go fishing and soon Gladstone has the Golden Helmet on his hook. At the same time HD&L, who has be searching through the original source for the JW Guidebook, finally discover the lost charts of Columbus. With the help of these charts Donald and his nephews again try to save North America from Azure Blue and Lawyer Sharky.

    Interesting facts:

         		Unlike "The Treasury of Croesus" this story wasn't published in Sweden even though there actually exist a serialized version of it.
    In the last page of this story Columbus is drawn with a normal human nose instead of a standard Disney black nose ball. Don Rosa says: "I'd like to draw all historic figures that way, and I always do if I simply use them as a single image. If I use them as a character in a story, Egmont insists I draw them with black nose balls."

    Go to AC Sivebæk's The two worlds of Don Rosa to see the difference between the two versions of this story.
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