"Sooner of later the science of rain making was bound to be perfected- and the guy that perfected it is none other that Donald Duck, M.R.M. (Master Rain Maker)! The boy is good!"
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Carl Barks Gem,
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This review is from: Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Brittle Mastery of Donald Duck (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 7) (Paperback)
Wether for a Collector or for a Kid( and a Kid at Heart), this item is great. Donald is usually the bumbling, screeching Duck, but here he is the Bumbling Screeching Master/Expert of ...[ pick your choice]. The specialist mastery that is shown here is some more obscure items, but they are just superb and superb fun. The more common Master of ... item is Donald as the master Mechanic, and Donald gets to eventually fix Scrooges Trains( on the cheap of course).
Anyways, this is one of the better produced editions, and an accompanying Essay shows some insight that collectors will love, but may be a bit much for kids, however the fun of the comics will be great. Family friendly item, Adult friendly as well. At this price it is more than the regular comic, but since Harvey has decided to change their main titles to that annoying Manga/anime stuff, the lovers of the Carl Barks/Don Rosa style of Classic Ducks will be overjoyed with this All American Gem. ENJOY !!!!!!!!!!!
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A very fun Carl Bark Donald Duck collection,
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(Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 7) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is an excellent entry in Gladstone's Disney reprint series, with four more great Donald Duck stories by master cartoonist Carl Barks. This volume is organized around an entertaining theme, stories in which the normally incompetent, indolent Donald finds himself a master craftsman at various odd occupations. The first story is perhaps the best, in which Donald is a ridiculously skillful cloud seeder, able to bend individual raindrops so that his customer's laundry can stay dry while his garden is getting watered. Everything's going great until Donald's jealousy towards Gladstone Gander gets the better of him, and he uses his rainmaking skills for evil, not good. The other three stories follow similar arcs, generally ending with Donald blowing it so badly that he has to flee town to avoid a screaming mob. It's great stuff, and fine family-friendly entertainment. Recomemnded! (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain book reviews, January, 2009) Stories include: "The Master Rainmaker" (from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #156) "The Master Mover" (from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #222) "The Master Glasser" (Donald Duck Comics #68) "Spare That Hair" (from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #272)
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5 Donald Duck stories by Carl Barks,
This review is from: Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Brittle Mastery of Donald Duck (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 7) (Paperback)
This is a graphic novel comic album from Gladstone Comics, it os Donald Duck #7 of 1988. It features reprints of classic stories by Carl Barks, the famous artist who drew Donald and Uncle Scrooge comics for 25 years starting in the late 1940's, and he has legions of fans all over the world for his inventive scripts and draftsmanship as an artist. Gladstone Comics reprinted stories in comic form, comic albums, and even comic digests in the late 1980 through 1990's. They put a lot of love as fans of the work in their reprint books and comics and it shows. High quality paper and inks, nice covers, taking their images from the original black and white art and having brand new coloring done for each issue is a formula that has garnered awards for them. Later Gladstone and their parent company Another Rainbow Publishing created a hard cover library of all of the black and white stories by Barks, the Carl Barks Library volumes. After that their last big project was the Carl Barks Library in Color, reprinting in color all of Barks works in softcover books, in chronological order. As they finished that series, Disney stepped in and took away their license to print the Disney material. I miss the heyday of the Gladstone books, they brought an excitement and quality to the reprints that no one has matched ever since.
The mastery stories by Barks was a set of Donald Duck stories that first started in 1953, when Barks hit upon a concept of making Donald a master craftsman of something, such as glass repair, coming up with ingenious repairs for complex problems. Never content with being good at something, he craves attentions to be recognized as the best of something and the publicity that comes with it. But his ego always allows him to bite off more than he can chew and he brings disaster on his head once again. The formula works so well with the character of Donald, that Barks used it a few more times. This album groups some of those stories together. In this issue all the scripts and art are by Barks, and the cover is a composite from the pages. We have: 1) "Master Rainmaker" a 10 page story first printed in Dell Comics Walt Disney Comics & Stories (WDC&S) #156, September 1953. Donald goes into business seeding clouds for rainmaking, but takes it to new heights for customers that need special needs like an x-shaped field. 2) "Master Mover" a 10 page story first printed in Dell Comics WDC&S #222 March 1959. Donald starts a moving company and says he can move anything, which leads to some unusual requests. This is the myna bird story. 3) "Master Glasser" first seen in Dell Comics Donald Duck #68, November 1959. The publisher had a basic script idea that Barks totally rewrote into this side-splitting 5 page masterpiece. 4) "Master Wrecker" first printed in Gold Key Comics WDC&S #264 of September 1962. A 10 page story, where Donald is so good with his wrecking ball, he can know the windows out a building without breaking them. There is nothing like a wrecking ball in the hands of Donald to give Barks a reason to create mayhem. 5) "Spare That Hair" first published in Gold Key Comics WDC&S #272 from May 1963. In this last 10 page story, Donald is a master barber with techniques not taught in any barber school, and is giving one wild haircut after another. 5 great stories in one book, a really nice theme by Gladstone for this collection. Keep this for yourself, or read it to the kids, but by all means its a keeper.
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SOONER OR LATER THE SCIENCE OF RAIN MAKING WAS BOUND TO BE PERFECTED-AND THE GUY THAT PERFECTED IT IS NONE OTHER THAN DONALD DUCK, M.R.M. (MASTER RAIN MAKER)! Read the first page New!
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SOONER OR LATER THE SCIENCE OF RAIN MAKING WAS BOUND TO BE PERFECTED-AND THE GUY THAT PERFECTED IT IS NONE OTHER THAN DONALD DUCK, M.R.M. (MASTER RAIN MAKER)! Read the first page New!
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