Carl Barks’s "Wallaby Duck"

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  • May 15, 2006 at 9:59 pm #28472
    Anthony Durrant
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    For one story he wrote that took place in Australia, Carl "The Duck Man" Barks wrote about a character who was a very unusual villain, a duck who had been raised by wallabies, which are small kangaroos native to Australia.  She was big, blonde and powerfully built, the most muscular avian character Carl Barks ever created, and was the leader of her group of wallabies.  Using slippers made from the feet of a wallaby, she robbed Uncle Scrooge's money bin in Australia, and by story's end was in prison, looking at herself in a mirror!

    May 15, 2006 at 10:39 pm #28473
    AlexG
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    I believe I have that story in a reprinted hardcover collection of Carl Barks Uncle $crooge / Donald Duck stories . . .  😎

    “I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
    ~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

    May 16, 2006 at 12:53 am #28474
    fungo09
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    Hey alex, could you scan it if you have it. Or possibly help me find an internet link i looked all over.. thanks

    May 16, 2006 at 3:05 pm #28475
    AlexG
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    Hey alex, could you scan it if you have it. Or possibly help me find an internet link i looked all over.. thanks

    The story is called "Queen of the Wild Dog Pack" – you can find it as Gold Key Uncle Scrooge (1962) #62 or later reprinted by Gladstone as Uncle Scrooge Adventures (1987) #43 – if you're going to acquire it, the Gladstone reprint is only going for $4.80 NM at the Lone Star Comics site

    http://www.mycomicshop.com/

    “I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
    ~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

    September 26, 2006 at 10:39 pm #28476
    Anthony Durrant
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    Thanks!  After I finish writing this reply, I'll go to MILEHIGHCOMICS.COM and look there.  The character is a spoof on the jungle girls that proliferated in the late thirties and early forties.

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