Disney LongBox Reviews : Donald Duck #15

 

REVENGE OF THE DUCK AVENGER PART 2 of 2

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN : ITALY

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN TOPOLINO #744 (1970)

FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN THE USA

Our story resumes as Donald makes his way to Gladstone Gander’s house to initiate his revenge against him and Daisy for humiliating him at the ruins. As Gladstone eats his dinner, Donald pays a little boy to ring his doorbell to distract Gladstone.

He sneaks into his house as Gladstone answered the door, planting the memory erasing candy in Gladstone’s dish as it soon takes effect forgetting why he was wearing the Duck Avenger costume and heads off to bed

Donald returns home to find the nephews made him supper as he knows it has to do with them wanting him dress up as the Big Bad Wolf. He pretends to not be interested in the charity dance and tells them he won’t be going. The nephews goes to wash the dishes and then checks up on Donald, sound asleep.

What they don’t know is that it was a decoy mask with a tape recorder as Donald soon makes his way to the party dressed up as the Duck Avenger.

He pretends to be Gladstone and starts dancing with Daisy as Scrooge pre-occupies himself by guarding the charity earnings in the back room. The dance goes on as Donald asks Daisy on her real thoughts on him.

As the party continues, Donald soon leaves to do what he came here to do : Frame Gander with the ultimate crime as he soon makes his way to the back room where Scrooge is sound asleep on the money box.

Donald drugs him with his sleeping powder to make sure he never wakes up while he runs off with the money box. A coin soon falls out of it as it automatically wakes Scrooge up as he runs off after the Duck Avenger.

As the chase goes on , Daisy asks the nephews where Gladstone is as they go back to the back office as they find that Scrooge and the box are gone. Scrooge soon returns from the car chase as he informs them that Fantomallard stole the proceed money and they need to go Gladstone’s house to get the money back.

Scrooge busts in the house as a confused Gladstone asks them what’s going on as Scrooge and Daisy interrogate him with many questions.

Daisy gets furious seeing that Gladstone doesn’t even remember their date as Gladstone accuses Donald having suspected he rang the doorbell earlier that night.

The gang soon heads off to Donald’s house as the latter dresses in his PJs and pretends to have been asleep as the nephews tell Scrooge that Donald couldn’t have possibly have stolen the money since he was sleeping.

Scrooge loudly knocks his door as Donald wakes up and tells them he didn’t steal the money as suspicions arise throughout the room on who committed the crime.

Donald soon fears it will go too far and cause Gladstone harm as he tells them the ghost of Fantomallard committed the crime and they need to go to the ruins and face him to get the money back. Donald says he will take him on head-on to impress Daisy as the gang soon heads off.

Want to know if Donald ends up facing Fantomallard by himself ? Will Daisy get her money back ? Read the rest of the story on your own to find out.

NOBODY’S HOME

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: DENMARK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN KACER :DONALD DUCK #7 (2002)

FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN THE USA

This story begins as Fethry visits Donald at his house but nobody is at home. The loud knocking gets on Neighbour Jones’ nerves as he yells out to him. Fethry says that maybe he is busy with one of his many hobbies as he sees Jones building a contraption in his backyard.

Jones soon tricks Fethry into helping him with his latest machine to annoy Donald Duck and destroy his house.  He tells him that’s its replicas of medieval weaponry for his historical society as Fethry agrees to help him.

Jones tells him to finish building one of the weapons as Fethry takes it upon himself to make the plans better….well better in his own kooky ways… as he soon takes it upon himself to edit his other weapons to make them better as well.

How will this plan work out in the end ? Will Jones succeed with his plan ? Will Fehtry get the hint that Donald hates him ? Read on to find out dear readers.

OVERALL THOUGHTS

REVENGE OF THE DUCK AVENGER PART 2 OF 2: 

As I stated last month , I am not a fan of this version of the Duck Avenger but this latest part translated by the wonderful Jonathan Gray was laugh out loud funny and even had a car chase for good measure. I cannot wait to see what other Duck Avenger adventures IDW has planned to promote the book’s release next month.

Off Topic : While I am a fan of Scarpa’s work, I kind of hunger for more artists to be featured in the IDW comics as the main stories. It might happen , I’m not sure but I kind of want a break from Scarpa for a bit.

NOBODY’S HOME: 

This is a very interesting story featuring a character I used to hate ( Fethry) and a character I barely knew until the IDW comics introduced him into my life ( Neighbour Jones). While some may think it would be a bad team-up. I found it was a very good one since both people are people that Donald hates. One for his zany beliefs and the other due to his mean nature.

I loved how Fehtry somehow managed to ruin Jones’ plans by helping him out as Donald watches from his window as if he planned all of this to happen. Can’t wait to see more Neighbour Jones in the future.

CREDITS: 

WRITERS : GUIDO MARTINA ( STORY 1) DAVE RAWSON ( STORY 2)

ARTISTS: ROMANO SCARPA ( STORY 1) JOSE MARIA MANRIQUE AND CESEAR FERIOLI ( STORY 2)

EDITOR : SARAH GAYDOS

ARCHIVAL EDITOR: DAVID GERSTEIN

PUBLISHER: IDW AND DISNEY COMICS