Walt Disney's Donald Duck Frozen Gold : The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library [Hardcover]

Sick of the snow, Donald trades his house for an airplane so he and the boys can winter in the tropics. But fate intervenes, and they find themselves flying a crucial supply of penicillin to the stricken community of Point Marrow, Alaska. Meanwhile, some shady characters decide to use Donalds rescue mission as cover to steal an old-timers secret gold stash  kidnapping Donald along the way! Escaping from their clutches, a freezing Donald, lost in the vast empty wastes of the far, far north encounters an angry polar bear who chases him off a cliff  and then things really start to go wrong! Next, Donald suffers a bonk on the head that turns him into a scientific genius. His first invention: duckmite, an explosive so powerful that he uses it to propel a rocket to the moon. Then, Donald accidentally gives the boys a rare dime worth $500. But how to get it back?Kidnapped, Donald escapes, only to wander hopelessly in the far frozen north! Next, he invents a rocket fuel powerful enough to send him to the moon! It is amazing that even this early into Carl Barks comics career, he really does not miss with any of his stories. ... I love this Carl Barks Complete Disney Library because I feel like I am taking a deep class in Disney comic education and these volumes are my fun textbooks. As someone who has read a lot of Barks work but has never been exposed to these early stories, its really fun to see how the Good Duck Artist developed during his early years.