Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures: The Golden Helmet (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 13) [Paperback]

Book Description

Donald is assistant guard in the museum at Duckburg and finds a map in an old ship on display in the museum. Donald wasn't the only person interested in the map.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Gladstone Pub.
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944599133
• ISBN-13: 978-0944599136
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,995,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Adventure, Quality Barks Work again, March 31, 2006

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Santeria "Son of Tazz" (Tallahassee) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures: The Golden Helmet (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 13) (Paperback)

The Golden Helmet is a classic work. It's fun, its funny, its dramatic, and its packed with the typical set of funny references in Carl Barks work. In this edition you actually get five stories, including the main adventure, there are also two short stories and two one pagers. The Golden Helmet is well researched, and in the inside cover, you have a superb little mini-guide to the work.
The one element that please me, is that this edition deviates very little from the original strip format as published in a bound format in 1980-81; mostly unknown to current collectors, but known to collectors of my vintage, the bound versions are half way between the top of the line Collected Works of Carl Barks, and the edition in this case; all are good, but will be more tailored to/for different budgets. I just wish that the Collected works was out at a more accessible price.Whatever edition you get, or can get, if you are a Duck fan, you will love these beautifully crafted, and lovingly written works.
Whilst I love getting these editions, with superb quality paper, and it is good, qualifying for a library standard low acidity specification. The one production caveat is that the main inside comic tends to easily separate from the cover. It's not a major problem, but you will need to consult a collectors repairer for a basic fix, or check with a binder to get a more longer term solution.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute power corrupts absolutely, February 26, 2005

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isala "Isabel and Lars" (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures: The Golden Helmet (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 13) (Paperback)

Donald Duck works as a museum guard. He yearns for the adventures of the old vikings. Suddenly it is discovered that a golden helmet is buried somewhere on inhospitable eastern Canadian seaboard. Possesion of the helmet will make the holder the rightful lord of North America. Obviously, the bad guys are after it, so it is for the good guys to try and beat them to it. However, when they arrive after having fought the elements, time, and each other, they must face the most difficult task of all - their own secret desires. The true horror of the helmet is
while it does make the wearer the ruler of North America, it also makes the wearer insane... One buy one the brave fighters succumb to its lure, both the good and the bad, and they outline their weird vision of their new North America.
This is on the surface just a comic book for kids, but it has an epic format that makes it stand out. Both the drawings and storyline are more reminiscent of Prince Valiant than of pulp comics.
The underlying ideas of the story are that power corrupts, and that the helmet is in no ways magical - the insanity is part of all of us: "Hold up a mirror to your soul, and tell me what you see - if you dare..."

5.0 out of 5 stars Carl Barks adventure, 5 titles in this book, December 22, 2010

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This review is from: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures: The Golden Helmet (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 13) (Paperback)

Another fine softcover reprint album from Gladstone comics, who always produced the Disney reprints in the highest quality possible. It is in the big oversized format. This was printed in 1988, before the softcover Carl Barks Library in Color books. Naturally it features the work of the good duck artist, Carl Barks. The black and white images were used and recolored from scratch, instead of just scanning old comics like some reprints of old comics. There are 5 titles in the book, 2 of which are 1 page gags:

1) "The Golden Helmet", an exciting 32 page long adventure story. Originally printed in Dell Four Color comics Donald Duck issue #408, from July August 1952. The cover on this book is the cover art that was on the original comic book. Fantastic story, a wonderful story with tons of sly Carl Barks shenanigans. Art and script by Barks.
2) "The Double Date". 5 pages long, this was originally printed in Dell Four Color Daisy Duck's Diary #1055, from November January 1960. As in the other Daisy's diary stories, the art is by Barks, but not the script. Daisy and Clara Duck have a double date, and the girls get mad when the men seem to enjoy spending more time with each other.
3) A 1 page gag, originally printed in Donald Duck 45, a Dell Four Color comic published in January 1956. Art and script by Barks.
4)"The Reversed Rescue" A 5 page story originally printed in Grandma Ducks Farm Friends issue #1161 from Dell Four Color Comics in February 1961. The art is by Barks, but like most of the Grandma Duck stories, the script was done by someone else, in this case Vic Lockman. In this story Donald rents a helicopter to rescue grandma and the nephews from her snow stranded farm, and the Beagle Boys horn in.
5) A 1 page gag, originally printed in Donald Duck #178, a Dell Four Color comic published in December 1947. Art and script by Barks.
I highly recommend this book and the others in the series, fun for adults and kids alike.